Mackie CFX12.mkII Owner's Manual - Page 5

QUICK START We know you can't wait to get the show on the road. Who has time to read a booooring manual? That's fine - the CFX MKII mixer is designed to set up quickly and operate intuitively - but please, READ THIS PAGE! ZERO THE CONSOLE: 1. Turn everything off, including the mixer's POWER switch and PHANTOM POWER switch. 2. Channel strip GAIN, AUX, EFX, and Fader down. 3. STEREO GRAPHIC EQ sliders centered. 4. MASTER AUX and EFX SENDS, and EFX RETURNS down. 5. Channel strip EQ and PAN controls cen- tered. 6. Channel strip ASSIGN 1-2 and MUTE switches down. 7. Channel strip LOW CUT, PRE FADER, and ASSIGN 3-4 switches up. 8. SUB 1 ASSIGN LEFT, SUB 2 ASSIGN RIGHT down; all other SUB ASSIGN switches up. 9. MAIN MIX and SUB Faders down. OO U 1 IC GAIN M 5 +50 -15dB +30dB GAIN ZERO LEVEL LOW CUT 100 Hz U AUX 1 +15 U OO OO OO OO 2 +15 PRE FADER U +15 U EFX 1 (EXT) EFX 2 (INT) +15 U EQ HI 12k -15 +15 U MID -15 +15 600 150 1.5k FREQ 100 8k U LOW 80Hz -15 +15 PAN LR 11 MUTE ASSIGN dB 10 1-2 5 3-4 U 5 10 20 30 40 SOLO 50 PFL 60 OO OO OO OO OO OO MASTER SEND +15 15+ 10 10 U AUX 5 5 1 0 0 +15 5 5 U 10 10 2 -15 15- +15 U EFX 63 125 250 500 1K 2K 4K 8K 16K STEREO GRAPHIC EQ 1 (EXT) +15 12 CHANNEL COMPACT INTEGRATED LIVE SOUND MIXER CLIP U DIGITAL STEREO EFFECTS PROCESSOR EFX 2 (INT) RETURN MASTERS U U U PHANTOM POWER 48v U POWER STATUS OO +15 EFX 2 SEND OO +15 TO MAIN MIX OO +15 +15 OO AUX 1 AUX 2 EFFECTS TO MONITOR REVERSE GATED CATHEDRAL LG. HALL MD. HALL LG. PLATE MD. PLATE SM. ROOM DELAY 1 DELAY 2 DELAY 3 DELAY 4 CHORUS FLANGE PHASER SPRING NORMAL EFX NORMAL 0 10 TIME RATE WIDE BYPASS REVERBS DELAYS CHORUS/FLANGE/PHASER 0 10 DAMPING DEPTH OO OO LEFT RIGHT +20 EFX 1 RETURN CLIP 22 U 10 7 4 +20 TAPE LEVEL 2 0 BREAK SWITCH (MUTES ALL CHANNELS) 2 4 OO OO ZERO LEVEL MAX SET PHONES LEVEL U 7 10 20 30 0dB = 0dBu +10 UTILITY OUT LEVEL RUDE SOLO SUB 1 SUB 2 SUB 3 SUB 4 SSTTEERREEOO MAIINN MMIIXX ASSIGN ASSIGN ASSIGN ASSIGN dB dB dB dB dB 10 LEFT 10 LEFT 10 LEFT 10 LEFT 10 5 5 5 5 5 RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT U U U U U 5 5 5 5 5 10 10 10 10 10 20 20 20 20 20 30 30 30 30 30 40 40 40 40 40 50 50 50 50 50 60 60 60 60 60 OO OO MAKE THE CONNECTIONS: 1. Connect your amp's outputs to your speaker inputs (unless, of course, you have powered loudspeakers). 2. Plug all the sound system components into suitable AC outlets, properly grounded and capable of delivering adequate current. 3. Using XLR or TRS cables, connect your mixer's MAIN OUTS to your powered speakers or amp's line inputs. 4. Make connections from your microphones and instruments to the mixer: Connect balanced microphones to the mono channel MIC jacks. (For condenser microphones, engage the PHANTOM POWER switch, located just above the meters.) Connect line-level instruments (synthesizers, guitar effects, direct boxes) to the mono or stereo channel LINE IN TRS jacks. 5. Turn all the power switches on, leaving the amplifier's switch for last. 6. Turn up the MAIN MIX Fader to the "-30" label, for now. We'll crank it up later on. 7. Turn up SUB Faders 1 and 2 to unity gain ("U" label). SET THE LEVELS: 1. Choose one of the microphones or instruments you connected. Make some noise. If it's a microphone, sing at your normal singing volume. If it's a synthesizer, play it at its normal output level. 2. While making noise, turn up that channel's GAIN until the adjacent ZERO LEVEL starts blinking. 3. Disengage (up) that channel's MUTE. 4. Raise that channel's fader to unity gain ("U" label). You should be hearing your noise now. 5. If necessary, apply channel EQ changes. (You may need to compensate for level changes with the channel fader.) 6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 for the remaining active channels. 7. Stop making noise. Everyone: start making music. 5