2 A Tour of the MultiMix FireWire
Rear of the Mixer
Here’s what you’ll find at the rear of the mixer.
Power Input
Here’s where you plug in your mixer’s external power supply. You should always connect your power supply to the mixer before you plug the power supply into an electrical outlet.
Power Supply Unit
This unit provides 18.5 VAC at 700 mA of power, more than enough to keep your MultiMix running smoothly. As with nearly all power supply units, this one tends to get warm when left on for a while. This is perfectly normal.
Power On
Another easy one. Switch this one on and your mixer has power. Switch it off and it doesn’t. Make sure the faders in the master section are pulled all the way down when powering your mixer up or down.
Phantom On
This switch activates and deactivates the phantom power described in “Mic Inputs (Channels 1 – 4),” page 13. This switch controls phantom power for all four mic inputs.
Firewire ports
These ports allow you to connect the MultiMix to a computer for multichannel digital audio communication. Use one port to connect to a computer; the other port can be used for other computer peripherals (like external hard drives).
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The POWER INPUT is built to accept only the power supply unit provided with your MultiMix, or an AC power supply that has the same specs. Others probably will not work.
As we said earlier, it’s very important that you plug in your microphones and mute your system before you turn on phantom power.
