SoundCraft Spirit Monitor manual Applications

cessful sound mixing.

The aim should be to place the microphone as close as physi- cally possible to the source, to cut out unwanted surrounding sounds, allow a lower gain setting on the mixer and avoid feedback. Also a well-chosen and well-placed microphone should not need any appreciable equalisation.

Input Connections The monitor mixer will often share inputs with a front-of- house mixer and it is particularly important to ensure that the input connections provide complete isolation between the two consoles to avoid hum problems and possible degradation of the signal. The provision of balanced splitter transformers or isolating transformers will ensure a clean signal to both con-

APPLICATIONS

The diagram below shows a typical application of the SPIRIT Monitor as a stage monitor console, with inputs shared via a splitter box with the front-of-house console

STAGE MONITORS

AMP RACK

MICROPHONE SPLITTER

MULTICORES TO

HOUSE CONSOLE

POWER

MIC INPUTS

ENGINEER'S

WEDGE

PHONES/

T/B

MIC

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