Mackie manual TT24 Interface, Channel Strip

Mackie TT24 Digital Live Console Quickstart Guide

Chapter 2: TT24 Interface

The TT24 has an intuitive easy-to-use interface. It maintains an “analog men- tality,” which leverages off the engineer’s experience, while providing all the advantages of digital functionality.

The design mandate for the TT24 console interface is simply stated:

Provide quick, intuitive access to any primary live mixing function with no more than two button presses, both within easy reach of the engineer’s two hands.

Make the Touchscreen menu structure flat: no “forward” and “back” buttons or menus to wade through to access the desired function.

The following sections summarize the TT24’s major functional categories.

2.1Channel Strip

Channel strip means one of the 24 vertical areas bounded at the bottom by a fader and at the top by the LINE mic/line level switch. Each channel strip can control one input at a time from one of four banks.

The top section of each channel strip (Figure 2-1)has analog controls for mic/ line input switching, 48 V phantom power activation, mic/line gain control, and signal/overload LED indication.

Below that, each channel has a virtual potentiometer (V-Pot), MUTE, SELECT, and SOLO backlit buttons, and a 100 mm motorized fader.

The V-Pot, which performs multiple channel functions (i.e., auxiliary sends and panning), consists of a push-button rotary encoder surrounded by a 16- segment LED ring (see V-Pot Control Area on page 14 for details).

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