NewTek TriCaster Advanced Edition User Guide - Manual (Page 275)

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This highlight identifies the currently selected source. Any adjustments made in this state affect the EQ
settings for the selected source only. In this fashion, you can easily adjust all settings for one source. To select
a particular source (such as Input 1 or 2) for adjustment, press the button labeled
SEL to
the left of the fader in the control surface slot with the corresponding label above.
The highlight in the OLED display updates to show the newly selected source.
To enable, disable or reset the EQ, press the EQ (Knob Set) button to enter EQ control
mode, and press CHAN, to turn Channel mode off; the display should show the 60Hz level.
Select an input (press the SEL Y button beside a fader), and press the SEL button just
below the OLED to enable/disable EQ for this input; or press ON (just beneath) to reset
the EQ for this input.
22.7.14 COMPRESSOR/LIMITER
To access TriCaster’s Compressor/Limiter controls for the currently selected source, simply hold down a Shift
key on the control surface and press the
EQ button again (the label for the ‘shifted’ state of this button is DYN).
Again, the labels above the little graphs in each control surface slot update to show Compressor/Limiter
settings – Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, and also Mic Gain. And naturally, the knobs beneath are delegated
to control the corresponding attribute for the currently selected source.
Hint: Mic Trim (not the same thing as Mic Gain) is only shown for sources set to a Mic mode.
22.7.15 CHAN MODE
CHAN is short for “Channel”. By default, this button is unlit, and Artist Mix operates in
‘standard’ mode. Standard mode ( CHAN off) is the default operating mode for the PAN Knob
Set mode that you will use for most ‘non-configuration’ Audio Mixer activity. It imposes
one-to-one relationship between control groups and individual audio sources – each group
governs one source exclusively.
Pushing the CHAN button changes this relationship. In channel mode, all knobs and faders are assigned to a
single TriCaster audio source (or ‘channel’, from the Artist Mix viewpoint). The SEL switch, introduced in
22.7.13, determines which source has ‘focus’, and the various adjustable settings for that source are
expanded across the entire control surface, with one Artist Mix ‘slot’ assigned to each.
We’ve seen how this works in EQ mode, where it expands the different equalizer bands for a single (selected)
audio source across multiple knobs. In fact CHAN mode is so appropriate in this case that it is automatically
activated whenever you press the EQ Knob Set selector.
(In CHAN mode, a ‘grid’ background is displayed in the OLED. And as we saw before, the label for the selected
source is highlighted in the same manner).
Hint: It is possible to switch to standard operating mode manually using Artist Mix to control EQ settings. Just press
the CHAN button to toggle that mode off. In this state, the knobs in all eight control groups are assigned to a single
parameter – so, for example, you could view (and adjust) the 60Hz EQ setting for all sources in the current Artist
Mix bank at once if you need to quickly damp that low rumble your microphones are picking up when the air
conditioning kicks in.
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