Peavey X-VCA owner manual Safe Scene

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The Safe Scene

There may be occasions when a channel needs to be made "Safe" from all pro- grammed mutes.This may occur during a show when an on-stage microphone needs to be used as an announce mic, or a switch-over has to be made to a backup chan- nel due to some technical difficulty.The Safe Scene allows a channel to be removed from the control of all Mute Scenes without having to edit any of the scenes. Once a channel is assigned to the Safe Scene, it will ignore all Mute Scene commands.The Mute Scenes themselves are not altered, it’s only the channel’s response that has been changed.This allows temporary changes to be made to a show, due to nightly needs, without having to go in and edit the programmed scenes.You’ll probably need the original scenes, as is, the next time the show is performed. NOTE:The Local mute command is not affected by this Safe, the Local mute is always effective.

The Safe Scene is always active, if a channel is assigned to the Safe Scene, it will ignore any mute commands from a Mute Scene.The Status LED (J) of a channel will be a steady Green color if a channel is Safe.

Editing the Safe Scene:

1)Enter Edit Safe Mode: Press the Edit Safe button (D), it will begin to blink, indicating that the system is in Edit Safe Mode.

2)Select a channel to safe: Pressing the Mute Sw (K) of a channel will assign/de-assign a channel to the Safe Scene.The status LED (J) of any chan- nel assigned to the Safe Scene will blink Green. If a channel is currently muted because of a Mute Scene, assigning it to the Safe Scene will immedi- ately un-mute it.

3)Clearing the Safe Scene: If you wish to clear all assigned channels from the Safe Scene, press and hold the Edit Preview (C) button. After a second or two, the display will change to CLR?. Continue to hold the but- ton down until the display shows CLRD. All channels assigned to the Safe Scene will be de-assigned and you can start fresh.

4)Exit Edit Safe Mode: Press the blinking Edit Safe button (D) again. It will stop blinking and the system will return to Normal mode. Any blinking Green status LEDs will turn to steady Green indicating that the channel is in Safe mode. If a channel was previously being muted by only a Mute Scene (status LED was steady Red), but is now "Safe", the status LED will show steady Green and the Mute LED (L) will be off. If the channel was being muted by a Local mute, it will remain muted.The Safe Scene does not affect Local Mutes.

NOTE:Assigning a channel to the Safe Scene can be done quickly if an emergency arises and a programmed channel has to be un-muted. It’s a simple 3 step process:

1)Press the Edit Safe Sw to enter Edit Safe mode

2)Press the Mute Sw of the desired channel- The channel will un-muted at this point.

3)Press the Edit Safe Sw again to return to Normal mode

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