Yamaha N12 Owners Manual - Page 7

English Table of Contents Welcome 6 Features 6 Included items (please check) ....... 6 Turning On and Off the Power to the Mixer 8 Before Turning On the Power to the Mixer 8 Turning the Power On and Off 8 Recording Basics 9 Techie Words? Don't Be Afraid 9 Signals - Level and Decibel 9 Balanced or Unbalanced 9 How balanced lines work 9 How unbalanced lines work 10 Connector Variations 10 Phone connectors 10 RCA pin connectors 10 Inside Your Mixer 11 Basic Structure 11 Monitor mix for musicians, external effects ..... 12 Front and Rear Panels 13 Channel Control section 13 Master Control section 16 Meter section 17 Control Room section 18 DAW Remote Control section 19 Rear I/O section 20 Setting Up the Mixer 22 Setup Procedure 22 n12 Setup Example (Home recording 22 n8 Setup Example (Home recording 23 Installing Monitor Speakers 23 A Hands-On Guide to the n8/n12 ... 24 Let's Hear It 24 Connecting sound sources and monitor devices 24 Adjusting the gain 24 Setting up the monitoring environment 25 Adjusting the volume level 26 Making Great Mixes 28 Manipulating compression 28 Mastery of EQ 29 Panning and balancing 30 Mixing into stereo 30 Applying reverb 31 Soloing a channel 32 Using the n8/n12 with Cubase 4/ Cubase Studio 4/Cubase AI 4 ........ 33 What you can do using the n8/n12 with Cubase ... 33 Computer setup for the Link function 34 Using the Link Function 37 Remotely controlling the Cubase transport section and audio tracks 37 Remotely adjusting the click sound (metronome 37 Selecting the Work mode 37 Let's start our recording session 39 Mixing signals on the n8/n12, then recording ..... 39 Recording n8/n12 input channel signals directly to Cubase 41 Mixing recorded tracks 43 Mixing audio tracks 43 Mixing down 45 Monitoring in a Surround Sound Environment (n12 only 46 Connecting surround speakers 46 Placement of the surround speakers 46 Setting up surround monitoring 47 Replacing the Sweet Spot Data .... 48 Using the n8/n12 with Software Other Than Cubase 49 Using the n8/n12 with a DAW other than Cubase ..49 Using the n8/n12 along with a multimedia application 50 Troubleshooting 51 While using the mixer 51 While using the mixer with a computer 51 Index 53 Appendix 204 Specifications 204 Bus connections of n8/n12 and DAW 207 Dimensional Diagrams 209 Block Diagram 210 MIDI Implementation Chart 211 Owner's Manual 7