Mackie Onyx 820i Owner's Manual - Page 16

15. TAPE INPUTS These stereo unbalanced RCA inputs allow you to play a tape, CD player, iPod® dock, or other line-level source. The tape in jacks accept an unbalanced signal using standard hi-fi hookup cables. Push in the tape button [39] to route the tape input to the control room and phones outputs [6, 17]. This allows you to play back recordings of your mixes. WARNING: The headphone amp is loud, and can cause permanent hearing damage. Even intermediate levels may be painfully loud with some headphones. BE CAREFUL! Always turn the phones level control [42] all the way down before connecting headphones or pressing a solo switch, or doing anything new that may affect the headphone volume. Then turn it up slowly as you listen carefully. Push in the assign to main mix button [40] to route the tape input to the main outs [4, 14]. This allows you to play back music between sets over the main PA speakers. Pushing tape in the source matrix and pushing assign to main mix can create a feedback path between tape in and tape out. Make sure your tape deck is not in record, record pause, or input monitor mode when you engage these switches, or make sure the control room level control is turned all the way down first. 16. TAPE OUTPUTS These stereo unbalanced RCA outputs allow you to record the main stereo mix onto a tape deck, hard disk recorder, or automatic CD burner, for example. This lets you make a recording for posterity/archive/legal purposes whenever the band gets back together again. The tape output is the stereo main mix, and it is affected by the main mix level control [55]. The output could also be used as an extra set of main outputs for feeding another zone. 17. HEADPHONE OUTPUT This 1/4" TRS connector supplies the output to your stereo headphones. It is the same signal that is routed to the control room outputs [6], as determined by the control room/phones source matrix [38, 39]. The volume is controlled with the phones knob [42], right next to the control room knob [41]. Whenever a solo switch [37] is engaged, you will only hear the soloed channel(s) in the headphones. This gives you the opportunity to audition the channels before they are added to the main mix. (Solo signals reaching the headphones are not affected by the channel level or main level, therefore turn down the phones level first, as soloed channels may be loud.) The phones output follows standard conventions: Tip = Left channel Ring = Right channel Sleeve = Common ground 16 Onyx 820i