Behringer MX2004A user manual Foreword

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EURORACK MX2004A

FOREWORD

Dear Customer,

Welcome to the team of EURORACK users and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in BEHRINGER products by purchasing this unit.

It is one of my most pleasant tasks to write this letter to you, because it is the culmination of many months of hard work delivered by our engineering team to reach a very ambitious goal: To produce a compact mixer, which fully satisfies your and our expectations and delivers a superior sound quality, easy operation and technical specifications. In addition to that the mixer is affordable for almost every musician. The task to design the EURORACK certainly meant a great deal of responsibility, which we assumed by focusing on you, the discerning user and musician. It also meant a lot of work and night shifts to accomplish this goal. But it was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people together, and what a great feeling it is when everybody who participated in such a project can be proud of what we’ve achieved.

It is our philosophy to share our joy with you, because you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER family. With your highly competent suggestions for new products you’ve greatly contributed to shaping our company and making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality (manufactured under ISO9000 certified management system) as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely favorable price. All of this will enable you to fully unfold your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.

We are often asked how we can make it to produce such high-grade devices at such unbelievably low prices. The answer is quite simple: it’s you, our customers! Many satisfied customers means large sales volumes enabling us to get better conditions of purchase for components, etc. Isn’t it only fair to pass this benefit back to you? Because we know that your success is our success, too!

I would like to thank the following people, whose help on “Project EURORACK MX2004A” has made it all possible:

The existing users of BEHRINGER equipment (whose comments and suggestions have made them the most important members of the BEHRINGER design team),

Thorsten (for this marvellous manual layout),

Bernhard (Rammi) (whose technical ingenuity is unique),

C.W. for the fine mechanics (key-phrase “Tooling modification”),

and all the others, who have made very personal contributions.

My friends, it’s been worth the trouble!

Thank you very much,

Uli Behringer

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Contents MX2004A Safety Instructions Foreword MX2004A Table of Contents Technical Background Architecture IntroductionBefore you begin Input level settingPSU power supply unit Mono Input ChannelEqualizer Aux sendsRouting, fading and muting Routing Stereo Input ChannelMain Section InsertSolo Stereo aux returnsMetering Solo functionInput 2-track input and outputMonitoring Alt 3-4 outputSelecting inputs Setting UPInitializing channels for gain setting Auditioning a signal and setting up a channelTrack sheet ApplicationsMultitrack initialization Recording levelsLive gig with simultaneous 2-track recording Keyboard MixerLive Gig with 2-TK recording Projekt Studio, laying vocal tracks Project studio-laying vocals to tapePatchbay Patchbay configurationOpen ParallelHalf-normalled NormalledExample of a studio organization with four patchbays Patchbay organizationEqualization Looming problemsTechnical Background MixingInstallation Eurorack MX2004A connectionsGain optimization Connections Installation Expanding ModificationsPhysical SpecificationsPower supply Main mix§ 1 Warranty CARD/ONLINE Registration Warranty