12. TAPE INPUT

These unbalanced RCA jacks are designed to work with semipro as well as pro recorders. Connect your

2-track tape recorder’s outputs here, using standard hi-fi RCA cables. To learn how signals are routed from these inputs, see TAPE IN (LEVEL) [40] on page 20.

Use these jacks for convenient playback of your mixes. You’ll be able to review a mix, and then rewind and try another pass without repatching or disturbing the mixer levels. You can also use these jacks with a portable tape or CD player to feed music to a PA system between sets.

WARNING: Pushing TAPE TO MAIN MIX

[41] in the output section can create a feedback path between TAPE INPUT and TAPE

OUTPUT. Make sure your tape deck is not in record, record-pause or input monitor mode when you engage this switch, or make sure the TAPE IN level knob is fully counterclockwise (off).

a cord in this 1/4" jack, hand the other end to Mr. Mono, and you’re done. He’s got his mono mix and you’ve still got your stereo mix. The MONO output is nothing more than a mix of the left and right main mix.

16. MONO LEVEL

So, Mr. Mono comes running back, screaming about the mono mix being so loud that his camcorder is melt- ing. Just reach for this knob and turn it down a bit. Just the thing for sending mono signals to mic inputs like camcorders, telephone interface boxes, even answering machines. With the pot all the way up (fully clockwise), you’ll have 6 dB of extra gain, with unity gain halfway between the one and two o’clock positions.

17. VOLTAGE SELECTOR

Located on the bottom panel, is a voltage selector switch.

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13. MAIN INSERT

These 1/4" jacks are for connecting serial effects such as compressors, equalizers, de-essers, or filters. The insert point is after the mix amps, but before the MAIN MIX [37] fader. Insert cables must be wired thusly:

Tip = send (output to effects device)

Ring = return (input from effects device)

Sleeve = common ground (connect shield to all three sleeves)

14. MAIN OUTS

These 1/4" jacks are usually patched to the inputs of your 2-track mixdown deck (unless you’ve chosen to use the TAPE OUTPUT [11] RCA jacks), or to the house amplifier during live sound sessions. To learn how signals are routed to these outputs see MAIN MIX [37] fader details on page 19. To use these outputs to drive balanced inputs, connect 1/4" TRS (Tip-Ring-Sleeve) phone plugs like this:

Tip = + (hot)

Ring = – (cold)

Sleeve = ground

To use these outputs to drive unbalanced inputs, connect 1/4" TS (Tip-Sleeve) phone plugs like this:

Tip = signal

Sleeve = ground

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WARNING: Before you plug the AC

power cord into the 1604-VLZ3, you must make sure that this slide switch

is set to the same voltage as your local AC mains supply. Only slide the voltage switch with the power cord unplugged.

Use a flat headed screwdriver to slide the switch if needed. The switch allows you to use the mixer in different countries and voltages, meet interesting people from other cultures, and entertain them.

18. POWER CONNECTION

Just in case you lose the cord provided with the 1604- VLZ3, its power jack accepts a standard 3-prong IEC cord like those found on most professional recorders, musical instruments, and computers.

WARNING: Before you plug the AC power

cord into the 1604-VLZ3, you must make sure that the VOLTAGE SELECTOR [17] slide

switch is set to the same voltage as your local AC mains supply.

WARNING: Disconnecting the plug’s ground pin can be dangerous. Please don’t do it.

15. MONO OUTPUT

It happens to everybody sooner or later: The forces that govern your world will demand a monaural output from your painstakingly-created stereo panorama. The last thing you want to do is start twirling all your carefully -placed PAN settings to one side. What to do? Stick

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