D&R ST1600 - ST-1600-seriesManual 600 dpi0004.PDF

ST
16OC
SERIES
GENERAL
FEATURES
AND EASE
OF USE
Mention
has
been
made
earl ier of
the ergonomic
aspects
of the console
design. The
guiding
principle
has been
to examine
each of
the
functions
a recording
engineer
performs
and to
design
the console
to help
as
much as
poss
i
b
I
e
wl
th each of them.
The
console
has basically
three
major
states,
these
are
normal ly:
-
reco rd
-
rep
I
ay
/
sync.
-
rem
i
x
RECORD
Al
I
channels
are
set
to accept mlc
or I ine
level
slgnals.
The
channel
mode
select ls
set to
channel
or
group.
Ful I equal
tsation
ls aval lable,
stereo
headphones
cue and
4 aux
sends,
al I
pF€,
mute
or
post
swi
tchabl
€.
other
channels or
directly
to the
Rout i
ng to
master i s selected
by the
rotery
routing control
s.
The multltrack
pot
feeds. the
multltrack
machlne
by
way of the
patchbay,
and VU-meters are
connected
post
patchbay
to the
mul
titrack
inputs.
The
solo
switch
gives
the
abll ity
to I isten to
a selected
channel in lsolation
wlthout
disturblng
cue
sends
or other
ma I n channel
lnputs.
The
mute swltch
performs
both
on
the
mul
tl
track
output and
main channel slgnal
path
so no
signal
ls
coming out
of the channel
however
the solo
switch
can stlll be
actlvated.
The
channe
I fader sets the
I evel
for
mon I tor
I
ng
Purposes.
REPLAY
/
SYNC.
The
only
thing
to
do is
mode selector
to sync
of
channel
or to
switch
the
i
start
already
building
up
to
$wi'tch
the
channel
the
already
recorded
multltrack
nF,ut
selector to
remix
to
the
remix
state.
All cues
are keeplng
the
same
level
neither
the
panpot
needs
a
I
terat
I on
nor
the
channe I
fader.
The
rotary
routlng controls
are
set
to the
mHster.
The
channel can
also be set into the sync.
mode
by
means
of
a reed relay,
whlch
ls remote
control
led
ln the
master
module,
when
many
channels
are
to be recgrded
at the
same
tlme.
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