Thermionic Culture THE FAT BUSTARD II 12 Channel Summing mixer User Manual

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Inputs & Outputs

The 12 inputs can be connected by the 12 labelled XLR
sockets on the back of the unit.

As the front panel indicates, 8 of these inputs are pairs of
stereo inputs and 4 are mono inputs.

The stereo inputs (channels 1 to 8) have a stereo rotary fader
and a channel on/off switch.

The mono inputs (channels 9 to 12) have a mono rotary fader,
pan pot and channel on/off switch. There is also a Mono/Pan
switch for each mono channel. Set to ‘Pan’, the channel can
be panned left to right with the pan pot. Set to ‘Mono’, the
channel won’t be affected by the pan pot and will go to stereo
centre. The channel will also gain about 3dB of gain.

The 2 auxiliary inputs can be used as either a further 2 inputs
to be summed, or as the interface for the Little Bustard which
will provide the facility to extend the number of input channels
to be summed. There are 2 XLR sockets on the back of the
unit, that are used to connect the auxiliary inputs. When used
as 2 more inputs to be summed they have an on/off switch
each. Also the inputs will normally be configured as Aux 1 to
stereo left and Aux 2 to stereo right. The Aux to centre switch
sends both Aux inputs to stereo centre (mono).

The Fat Bustard has unbalanced inputs and output as
standard because, after much experimentation, the sound of
the unit was preferred this way.