Axia Element - Appendix B: Block Diagrams; Interface and Master Output Signal Flow Diagrams; Auxiliary Signal Flow and Channel Block Diagrams

2: Conguring Inputs • 12
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you’ll see the “Element Control Center” displayed
onscreen. Using the sidebar menu, choose the “Con-
figuration” menu item under the “Sources & Profiles”
heading. Enter your password in the box (default is
“user”) and click OK.
Choose the Source proles menu item from the
main screen, and click the New Source Prole link
at the bottom of the screen. You’re now in the Source
Profile creation screen.
Reminder: Did you dene your audio sources
from the Engine and Nodes as outlined in Chap-
ter One? If not, go no further – you’ve got to do
that before you can continue with Source Prole
setup.
PRIMARY SOURCE: All of the audio sources that
you previously defined (during Audio Node setup)
are available in this drop-down box; pick one.
SOURCE PROFILE NAME: Type a 10-character de-
scriptive name for your source.
SOURCE NAME OVERRIDE: If the source you’re
defining can supply Program Associated Data (for
instance, a computer playout system that sends song/
artist information), you can choose to have that text
dynamically substituted in the alphanumeric dis-
play of the fader the source is assigned to. Instead
of reading PROPHET_1, for example, it could scroll
FERGIE.
Choose Show Sourcename to have the channel
alpha display the name you typed into the Source
Profile Name field above.
Choose Allow Application to Override if you’d
like the PAD text displayed instead.
Choose Show Both to scroll the Source Name
followed by the PAD text across the alpha dis-
play.
SOURCE AVAILABILITY: These check boxes de-
termine which faders (or other inputs) you’ll allow
this source to be assigned to. For example, if your
source is a Control Room mic, and you only want
it to appear on the left-most fader, you would check
only the box marked Channel 1. You might want to
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make a CD player available on any fader, so you’d
check the boxes for all faders. Some sources – es-
pecially air monitors – you might wish to prevent
from ever being assigned to a fader, so you would
uncheck the boxes for all faders. The number of fad-
er checkboxes show will vary depending upon the
number of faders installed in your Element.
The four final check boxes, CR monitor input, CR
headphone input, Studio monitor input and V-
Mixer input determine whether the board op will
be able to assign this source to the monitor and head-
phone buses or the Virtual Mixer (please see Chapter
6: Virtual Mixer for details on this feature).
To prevent a source from appearing on these inputs’
selection lists, uncheck the desired box.
About Mics and Headphone Feeds: Element
provides you with several headphone options,
all selectable from Element’s Monitor Mod-
ule. The Monitor 1 (control room) headphone
output provides a feed intended for the Host
(board-op’s) mic position and includes the abil-
ity to monitor the Preview bus in headphones.
Guests can talk to the host directly using the
Talkback keys on their remote control panels.
The Monitor 2 headphone output sends au-
dio to talent and guest mic positions. Talent
positions include a talkback channel that the
host or board op can use to communicate us-
ing the Talk To Monitor 2 function (guest
positions do not have this Talkback channel).
An individual headphone feed can also be con-
structed to associate a dedicated headphone
channel with a specic mic. This allows the
board op to send individual, targeted talkback
to a specic individual (using the Talkback
keys) without other talent or guests hearing.
SOURCE TYPE: Define your source as a micro-
phone, a line input, a telephone input, a codec or a
computer source.
Operator is the board operator’s mic. It is the
source mic for Element’s TALK TO functions. Its
On button serves as a COUGH/MUTE button. Its
associated logic mutes the CR monitors when
On.
CR Producer is used for in-studio Producer’s
mic positions. It has associated GPIO logic
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