Studio Technologies 50 2005 - Manual (Page 27)

Model 50/51 User Guide Issue 7, August 2005
Studio Technologies, Inc. Page 27
A or B LED is lit steadily. During left-only
operation the LED will flash once; in right-
only operation the LED will flash twice.
Studio Output
Associated with the studio output is one
button and one level control. As you’d ex-
pect, use the level control to set the studio
output level. The button is used to turn the
studio output on or off. When the LED is
off, the feed to the studio is off. When the
LED beside the button is lit, the feed to the
studio is on. Note that the talk to studio
communications function is active whether
the studio output is on or off. As previously
discussed, when the studio output is on
the LED will flash each time a new studio
source is selected.
Communications Functions
Five buttons are associated with the com-
munications functions. The three main
buttons are called talk to studio, talk to
phones, and slate. They have symbols
that represent (from left to right) a loud-
speaker, a pair of headphones, and a
slate board (or “clapper”). Pressing each
button activates the Model 51’s built-in
microphone and sends its audio to the
respective output. Press the far left button
(under the loudspeaker symbol) when you
want to talk to the studio; press the but-
ton under the headphone symbol to talk
to the headphones; and press the button
under the clapper to slate. Remember that
during a slate, microphone audio goes to
the dub output or, depending on the con-
figuration, to the dub and phones output.
When you press one of the communica-
tions buttons, the LED above it will come
on to tell you the function is active. Note
that all three of the communications func-
tions can be active at a time.
The Dim button lets you lower the control
room level by a fixed amount. The amount
of attenuation depends on the dim level
set in the configure mode (refer to the
Configuration section for help). If the Dim
LED is on and dim is configured to fully
mute, there will be no control room output.
The Dim button is always set to latch the
function on or off.
If the auto dim off function is enabled,
whenever dim is on and the control room
level is changed, dim will automatically
return to the off state. Note that the auto
dim off function is not active whenever
dim is on due to one of the communica-
tions functions being active.
The Mono button lets you send L+R to
both the left and right control room out-
puts, as well as the meter output. The
Mono button can be configured for mo-
mentary or latching operation.
For diagnostic purposes the control
room left-only or right-only mode can be
activated. To enter the mode you’ll use
the Communications Level buttons.
Press and hold both Level buttons for
about two seconds. The control room will
switch from stereo operation to the left-
channel-only mode. Press and hold the
Level buttons again, and the control room
switches to right channel only. Press and
hold the Level buttons a third time and
the control room switches back to stereo
operation. The Level buttons continue
to cycle through left, right, and stereo
monitoring as you press them. You can
even switch between the control room A
and B outputs at any time during single-
channel operation.
The control room A/B output LEDs indi-
cate when you are in left-only or right-only
modes. During normal operation either the