Behringer DEQ2496 FOREWORD, TABLE OF CONTENTS, 1. INTRODUCTION, 2. CONTROL ELEMENTS, 4. APPLICATIONS, 5. CONNECTIONS, 6. OPERATINGSOFTWARE, 7. SPECIFICATIONS, 8. WARRANTY

ULTRACURVE PRO DEQ2496

FOREWORD

Dear Customer,

welcome to the team of ULTRACURVE PROusers and thank you very much for expressing your confidence in us by purchasing the DEQ2496.

Writing this foreword for you gives me great pleasure, because it represents the culmination of many months of hard work delivered by our engineering team to achieve a very ambitious goal: to offer you a high-quality device whose flexibility makes it suitable for studio and live applications. The

task of designing our new ULTRACURVE PRO DEQ2496 certainly meant a great deal of responsibility which we assumed by focusing on you, the discerning user and musician. Meeting your expectations also meant a lot of work and night shifts. But it was fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people together, and what a great feeling it is when all who participated in such a project can be proud of what they’ve achieved.

It is our philosophy to share our enjoyment with you, because you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER team. With your highly competent suggestions for new products you’ve made a significant contribution to shaping our company and making it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely reasonable price. All of this will enable you to give free rein to your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.

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

I would like to thank all of you who have made the ULTRACURVE PRO possible. You have all made your own personal contributions, from the developers to the many other employees at this company, and to you, the BEHRINGER user.

My friends, it’s been worth the effort!

Thank you very much,

Uli Behringer

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION .........................................................			6
1.1	Before you get started ...................................................		6
	1.1.1	Shipment ...............................................................	6
	1.1.2	Initial operation ......................................................	6
	1.1.3	Warranty ..............................................................	6
1.2	About this manual ...........................................................		6

2. CONTROL ELEMENTS ...............................................		6
2.1	Front panel ......................................................................	6
2.2	Rear panel ......................................................................	7
3. MENUSTRUCTURE AND EDITING .............................		8
3.1	General operation and display structures .....................	8
3.2	Equalizer modules ..........................................................	8
	3.2.1 GEQ menu ............................................................	8
	3.2.2 PEQ menu .............................................................	8
	3.2.3 DEQ menu .............................................................	9
	3.2.4 FBD menu ...........................................................	10
3.3	WIDTH menu .................................................................	11
3.4	DYN menu .....................................................................	11
	3.4.1 LIMITER menu .....................................................	12
3.5	UTILITY menu ................................................................	12
3.6	I/O menu ........................................................................	13
3.7	BYPASS menu ..............................................................	14
3.8	RTA menu (Real-Time Analyzer) ..................................	14
	3.8.1 AUTO EQ function (AEQ) ...................................	15
3.9	MEMORY menu .............................................................	15
3.10 METER menu ...............................................................		16
3.11 RTA/MIC input ..............................................................		16
	3.11.1Connecting a measurement microphone ...........	16
	3.11.2Connecting a line signal .....................................	16
4. APPLICATIONS ........................................................		17
4.1	Sum-signal equalizer for live applications ...................	17
4.2	Equalizer in the monitor path ........................................	18
4.3	Using the ULTRACURVE PRO in the studio ..................	18
4.4	Using the ULTRACURVE PRO as a delay unit .............	18
5. CONNECTIONS ........................................................		19
5.1	MIDI connections ..........................................................	19
5.2	Analog connections .....................................................	19
5.3	Digital connections (AES/EBU and S/PDIF) ..................	19
5.4	WORDCLOCK connection ............................................	20
6. OPERATINGSOFTWARE..........................................		20
7. SPECIFICATIONS .....................................................		20
7.1	MIDI implementation .......................................................	21
8. WARRANTY ..............................................................		22

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