3—Introduction to the VS-2000
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The Mixing Console
The VS-2000 contains a digital 40-channel mixing console.
What’s a Digital Mixing Console?
First, let’s make sure we understand what a mixing console, or “mixer,” is. A mixer is a
device that lets you manipulate audio, and lets you combine multiple audio signals into
a single sound, or a “mix.” That mix can be in mono or stereo.
A
digital
mixer converts all audio signals into binary data—numbers—and performs all
of its operations using complex mathematical equations. When you listen to the
mixer—and any time audio comes out of its analog outputs—the sound is converted
back into audible form. A digital mixer has several powerful advantages:
• Digital mixers produce extremely high-quality sound.
•They can memorize settings that can be restored with the touch of a button.
•They have a flexible internal structure—it’s all just numbers under the hood, after
all, not physical wires—so you can easily re-configure the mixer’s internal
connections in ways that aren’t possible with a traditional analog mixer.
40 Channels?
In the VS-2000, each audio signal has its own set of controls with which you can manage
and shape its sound. This set of controls is called a “channel.” The
VS-2000’s mixer has 40 channels, all of which are always active and available:
•
10 input channels
—control signals received by 8 of the VS-2000’s analog input jacks
and its stereo digital input connector. The 10 input channels are sometimes
collectively referred to as the “input mixer.”
•
18 track channels
—control the sound of recordings being played back by the
VS-2000’s hard disk recorder. They may be referred to as the “track mixer.”
•
6 stereo FX return channels (or 12 mono channels)
control the sound produced by the
VS-2000’s internal effects.
If the 40 channels were laid out as they are in a conventional mixer console, the
VS-2000 would be
much
bigger.
To make the VS-2000 compact portable, its channels have been placed in three space-
efficient areas of the VS-2000’s front panel.
Input channels Track channels
FX
returns
MASTER fader
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