Mackie 1642-VLZ4 Owners Manual - Page 23

Owner's Manual 51 50 51 50 52 53 54 55 56 56. Returns Solo and LED This switch operates just like the channel solo [27] switches - engaging it sends signals to the control room, headphones, and meter display, and interrupts whatever happened to be there before you soloed. It follows the mode [44] switch setting as well. The only difference is that when you engage this returns solo switch, it sends all four stereo returns signals to the solo circuit. Assume you want to solo the snare drum. Hit that channel's solo switch, and you get the "dry" (no effects) snare only. That helps, but you want to hear it with the reverb you have patched into a stereo return. Leaving that channel's solo switch engaged, also engage the returns solo switch, and now you'll get the dry snare and its reverb. Since it is a global feature, you'll also get the signals from all the other stereo returns, so there may be some sounds that you didn't want to hear. If they offend your sensibilities, simply turn down the levels of the stereo returns you don't want to hear, or mute the channels feeding the unwanted signal to the effects device you do want to hear. Congratulations! You've just read about all the features of your 1642VLZ4. You're probably ready for a cold one. Go ahead. The rest of the manual can wait. 55. CR/PH Only (Stereo Return 4) Once again, the default for all the stereo r­ eturns is to feed them directly into the main mix. You've just learned about the ­optional ­exceptions involving stereo return 3. Stereo return 4 also has an optional exception: By engaging this switch, you will remove stereo ­return 4's stereo signal from the main mix and send it directly to the CR/phones source [42] matrix. It matters not if any of the source matrix switches are assigned, but it will be interrupted, as usual, if a solo [27] switch is engaged. Let's pretend you're doing a live mix to a 2-track deck, a house PA, or both, and you want to play along to a click track. You could run the click track directly into the main mix, but you don't want the mixdown deck and/or audience to hear it. By gum, this is the switch for you. Similarly, it can be used for voice-over tracks, narration, anything you want heard by the engineer and players but not by the audience and mixdown deck. Owner's Manual 23