Lexicon Recording Studio owner manual Front Panel

The Front Panel

Line 1 / Instrument Line 2 / Microphone Monitor Mix Control Output Level

Line 1/Inst	Line 2/Mic
Instrument
		Monitor
	Stereo	Mono
Peak	Peak

Monitor Mix Output Level

USB

Direct Playback

For the cleanest recording, adjust the Gain so the Peak LED flashes only occasionally, on the loudest part of the perfor- mance.

DO NOT TURN

DOWN A Gain

CONTROL TO GET THE RIGHT MIX IN YOUR HEADPHONES OR MONITORS WHILE RECORDING. USE THE Monitor Mix CONTROL FOR THIS PURPOSE.

1/4˝ Instrument Input Jack Peak LEDs Monitor Assign 1/8˝ Headphone Output Jack

The FRONT Panel

The Alpha Studio™ front panel offers the following features:

¼" Instrument Input Jack

This ¼" jack accepts unbalanced, low-level, high impedance instrument sources such as electric guitar, acoustic guitar with a pickup, and electric bass. The input gain

is adjusted using the Line 1/Inst knob on the front panel. When an instrument is plugged into this input, it disables the Line 1 audio input on the rear panel.

Line 1/INst

This knob adjusts the Line 1 and Instrument Input gain.

Peak LEDs

These LEDs light when the input signal is within 5dB of analog clipping. If the Peak LEDs flicker occasionally, the signal is approaching clipping levels, but does not neces- sarily indicate distortion or actual clipping.

Line 2/mic

This knob adjusts the Line 2 and Mic Input gain.

Monitor Assign

This button selects whether a pair of analog audio sources will be heard in stereo or mono in the Direct Monitor Mix. In Stereo mode, the left inputs (Line 1/Inst) are rout- ed to the left channel and right inputs (Line 2/Mic) are routed to the right channel.

In Mono mode, you’ll hear all inputs in the center of the Direct Monitor Mix through the Headphone or Line outputs.

When the Monitor switch is in Mono, it does not change the signals going to the com- puter in any way—they will still be separate and stereo in the computer.

Monitor Mix

The Alpha Studio gives you the ability to hear your analog input signals directly and immediately while recording, without having to adjust levels in software, and before the delay caused by digital converters and computer recording latency. This zero-laten- cy analog monitoring is controlled by the Monitor Mix knob, which you can use to adjust the blend between the Alpha Studio’s live analog inputs (called “Direct”) and any audio coming back from the computer via USB (“Playback”). To adjust the play- back mix coming back from the computer (previous tracks, effect returns etc.), use

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