6X32 COMPACT DIGITAL MIXER User Manual

Channel Strip and Monitoring

The X32 COMPACT’s channel strip offers dedicated controls for the most important processing parameters of the currently selected channel. To adjust controls for a given channel strip, simply press the Select button on the desired input or output channel.

Certain sections of the channel strip (such as the low cut filter, noise gate, EQ and compressor) contain a respectively labeled button that can be pressed to switch the specific effect on and off. The button illuminates to show the effect is active, and goes dark when bypassed.

Within the channel strip, the rotary control knobs are surrounded by an amber LED collar that indicates the parameter’s value. Whenever this backlit knob is turned off, it indicates that this specific control/parameter is not available for the selected channel type. For example, if an output bus is currently selected, the LED collar and the gain knob are turned off, because there is no input gain to be controlled on an output bus.

The channel strip consists of the following sub-sections:

•Config/Preamp

•Gate, Dynamics

•Equalizer

•Main Bus

Each of these subsections correspond to the processing steps of the currently selected channel, and they each have their own View button that, when pressed, switches the Main Display to a page displaying all related parameters for

that subsection.

Monitoring and Talkback

There are two separate Level controls in this section, one for the headphone outputs located on either side of the console, and a second one for the monitor outputs located on the rear panel.

Press the section’s View button to edit various monitoring preferences, such as the input source for the phones bus and the monitor outputs.

This section also contains independent Talkback buttons (A and B). Press the View button next to the Phones Level knob, then press Page Select right to access the Talkback A and B edit pages. These screens also contain settings for the optional goose-neck lamp and the console’s internal test-tone generator.

Input Channel Banks

You will find a select button on top of every channel that is used to direct the control focus of the user interface, including all channel related parameters (channel strip and main display), to that channel. Please note that at any time, there is exactly one channel selected (either Input Ch 1-32, Aux 1-8, FX Returns 1L-4R, Mix Bus 1-16, Main LR/C, or Matrix 1-6). DCA Groups (digitally controlled amplifier) cannot be selected because they control a number of assigned channels rather than one specific channel.

The Input Channels section of the console is located on the left hand side, and offers 16 separate input channel strips. These 16 channel strips represent three separate layers of inputs for the console, including:

•Input Channels 1-8

•Input Channels 9-16

•Input Channels 17-24

•Input Channels 25-32

•Aux Inputs 1-6/USB playback

•FX Returns

Press any of the correspondingly labeled layer buttons on the left side of the console to switch the input channel bank to any of the six layers listed above. The button will illuminate, reminding you which layer is active.

Two more layers (Bus Master 1-8 and 9-16) are also offered, allowing you to adjust the levels of the 16 Mix Bus Masters, which is useful when you wish to include Bus Masters into DCA Group assignments.

On each fader strip you will find a motorized 100 mm level fader, Mute and Solo buttons, a Gate indicator, an input level meter, Compressor indicator, and the channel select button.

Each of the 8 input channels has an individual (and customizable) color LCD screen that can display a channel number, nickname, and even a graphical channel icon. In the event that a channel’s input source has been changed to an input signal that differs from the default setup, the LCD display will also indicate the name of the actual input source.

Ch01 PC

Aux5

Soundcard

Example: Channel 01 has the nickname Soundcard and is fed from Aux input 5.