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02R96—Owner’s Manual
02R96 Exclusion of Certain Responsibility
Manufacturer, importer, or dealer shall not be liable for any incidental damages including
personal injury or any other damages caused by improper use or operation of the 02R96.
Trademarks
ADAT MultiChannel Optical Digital Interface is a trademark and ADAT and Alesis are reg-
istered trademarks of Alesis Corporation. Apogee is a trademark of Apogee Electronics, Inc.
Apple, Mac, and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks and Mac OS is a trademark of
Apple Corporation, Inc. HUI is a trademark of Mackie Designs, Inc. Intel and Pentium are
registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Nuendo is a registered trademark of Steinberg
Media Technologies AG. Pro Tools is a trademark or registered trademark of Digidesign
and/or Avid Technology, Inc. Tascam Digital Interface is a trademark and Tascam and Teac
are registered trademarks of Teac Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are registered
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, Inc. Waves is a trademark of Waves, Inc. Yamaha is a
trademark of Yamaha Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
holders and are hereby acknowledged.
Copyright
No part of the 02R96, its software, or this
Owner’s Manual
may be reproduced or distrib-
uted in any form or by any means without the prior written authorization of Yamaha Cor-
poration.
© 2002 Yamaha Corporation. All rights reserved.
Yamaha Web Site
Further information about the 02R96, related products, and other Yamaha professional
audio equipment is available on the Yamaha Professional Audio Web site at:
<http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/proaudio/homeenglish/>.
Package Contents
• 02R96 Digital Mixing Console
• CD-ROM
•Power cord
• This manual
Optional Extras
• MB02R96 Peak Meter Bridge
• SP02R96 Wooden Side Panels
• mini YGDAI I/O cards
About this Owner’s Manual
This
Owner’s Manual
covers the 02R96 Digital Mixing Console.
All the information you need in order to operate the 02R96 Digital Mixing Console is con-
tained in this manual. Use the table of contents to familiarize yourself with the manual’s
organization and to locate tasks and topics, and use the index to locate specific information.
Before diving in, it’s recommend that you read the “Operating Basics” chapter, starting on
page 29.
Each chapter of this manual discusses a specific section or function of the 02R96. The Input
and Output Channels are explained in the following chapters: “Input Channels,” “Bus
Outs,” “Aux Sends,” and “Stereo Out.” Where possible, these chapters have been organized
in order of signal flow, from input through to output.
Functions such as EQ and Delay are common to all channels. Rather than repeat the same
information over and over, these functions are explained once in the “Common Channel
Functions” chapter, which starts on page 87. The Input Channels, Bus Outs, Aux Sends, and