Dan Dugan Sound Design Dugan-MY16 - Manual (Page 39)

Dugan-MY16 User Guide The Dugan Control Panel
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6. Adjust each live mic channel’s weight setting until the fluctuating ambient noise
registers approximately equally on all auto mix gain meters.
Note that raising one channel’s weight setting causes its auto mix gain to rise and
the others to fall. With balanced weight settings, all mics have equal access to the
system gain.
7. During the event, adjust the faders to refine your mix.
There is usually no need to adjust the Dugan-MY16’s controls during the event.
Since the Dugan Speech System manages gain, there is no need to mute live mic
channels (on the mixer or Dugan-MY16) unless there is disturbing noise.
NOTE: If channel clipping occurs, turn down its input gain on the Yamaha console, and increase
the channel’s weight setting on the Dugan to re-establish the ambient noise balance.
Muting Mics on an LS9
If you have an LS9 mixer with firmware V1.21, or earlier, it does not allow post-fader
inserts. You must use the Dugan Control Panel to operate with the Dugan-MY16.
Mics must be muted by using the Dugan’s mute buttons. Pulling a fader down on the
console will not properly mute a channel. Although that mic is no longer audible in
the mix, it still contributes to the automatic mixing gain computations, and causes
ambient noise fluctuation. At worst, a noise at this mic could cut off another speaker.
To properly mute a channel:
• Leave the console faders up, adjust levels while people are talking, and mute a mic
by pressing the Dugan’s mute mode button. Enable the mic when needed by acti-
vating the auto button. You can use the Master PRESET button as a panic button
to unmute all mics.
Muting mics does not alter the overall ambient sound mix: the Speech System com-
pensates by slightly raising the ambient gains of the other mics to compensate for
the gain subtracted by muting a mic.
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• Use the bypass button with the console fader pulled down. This keeps the mic in-
stantly available on the fader but removes that mic from automatic mixing.