Mackie D8B Owners Manual - Page 38

CHANNEL Select Display • Just to the right of the L-R Meters. • Numeric readout indicates the selected channel -the currently editable channel in the VFD. OL 2 4 7 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 50 LEFT RIGHT CHANNEL Fat Channel Section The onboard Fat Channel provides access to all those really cool dynamics and EQ functions. It also provides for configuring Setup parameters, loading, and saving patch information. The on-screen Fat Channel is an amazing interface that provides the look and feel of a vintage tool as well as precision control and recall. Fat Channel Display • VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display. • Provides a text interface to console operation. Nearly all static functions and controls are accessible. V-Pots and SELECT buttons • Four Select buttons and V-Pots used to select and adjust options that show up in the Fat Channel VFD. • Pressing Select above a Fat Channel V-Pot lets the user adjust or scroll through the pertinent options. • V-Pots rotate 360˚ and display the relative adjustment positions as provided by eleven discrete LEDs. PREVIOUS and NEXT arrows • Pages the VFD to more parameters whenever more than four adjustments can be made. • The PREVIOUS button scrolls the VFD to the left. • The NEXT button scrolls the VFD to the right. • An arrow on the left-hand side of the VFD, pointing left, indicates a previous page is available. • An arrow on the right-hand side of the VFD, pointing right, indicates the next page is available. GAIN -1.0 dB D8B 56 INPUT / 72 CHANNEL DIGITAL MIXER GAIN +2.2 dB GAIN 0.0 dB GAIN +3.1 dB SUPER CD ENCODING SELECT SELECT SELECT SELECT HELP PREVIOUS LOW LOW MID ON SETUP EQ GATE The Fat Channel D8B Manual • Chapter 2 • page 32 COMPRESSOR HI MID HI NEXT MEMORY A MEMORY B PLUG-INS LOAD PATCH SAVE PATCH