Allen&Heath ME-1 - Manual (Page 18)

User Guide – AP8997 iss.3 18 ALLEN & HEATH
7.10 Selecting sources
Press a Select key. Depending on how it is
assigned the following screens may appear:
Channel source – One
of the 40 Cat5 inputs.
Level and pan are
available
Aux Input – From rear
panel stereo input
socket. Level and
balance are available.
Group – Key is a group
with multiple channels
assigned as its
members. Group master
level available.
Unassigned – There is
no source assigned to
the key.
7.11 Adjusting Level and Pan
Select a source:
Level - Turn the rotary to adjust level from
fully off through nominal ‘0’ at the marker to
+10dB gain available as headroom.
Pan – Press and turn the rotary. Pan
positions a mono source between Left and
Right, and adjusts the balance between Left
and Right of a stereo source.
Note Pan is not available for groups.
However you can adjust pan for each of the
members within a group.
If a channel is assigned to a Select key and is
also a member of a Group then a pointer on
its level bar shows the current group master
level setting:
The channel Select key level and the level of
its member within the group are the same.
Note If you turn up the channel and do not
hear the audio check that the associated
group master is turned up.
7.12 Trimming All levels
Hold Shift and turn the Rotary to
simultaneously trim all levels up or down.
Use Trim All to reduce a hot mix if ‘PK!’ or ‘L’
flashes, to bring up a mix with low meter
reading, or to turn all levels off.
In Normal mode Trim All adjusts all Select
key levels. It adjusts group masters and not
their source members.
In Group mode Trim All adjusts the levels of
just the members within the selected group.
Note The mix balance will change when the
source with highest level reaches maximum
or source with lowest level reaches minimum.
Use Trim All carefully to make small
adjustments if you want to keep the relative
balance between the sources.
Using Trim All to turn off all levels – Select
the source with highest level setting. Hold
Shift and turn the Rotary anticlockwise
several times to reduce it to off. You can reset
the whole mix or just a group in this way.
Pan
Piano
PK!
L
Level
(push)
Level

Pan
Pan
Piano PK!
L
Level
Channel level Group master level
Shift
Trim All

Pan
Piano PK!
L
Level
PK!
L Key unassigned
Drums PK!
L
Level
Pan
AuxIn PK!
L
Level