Studio Technologies 55 2002 - Manual (Page 19)

Model 55/56 User Guide Issue 4, June 2002
Studio Technologies, Inc. Page 19
potentiometer while the unit is already in
dim mode. This prevents a heart-stopping
blast of audio when an engineer presses
the dim button to turn dim on, but actually
turns it off because the unit was already
in the dim mode. While it’s hard to explain
unless you’ve used a console and experi-
enced this in person, trust us, this situation
does happen! Auto dim off is a wonderful
“real-world” function and in most cases
should be configured.
In the configure mode the Dim LED tells
you if auto dim off is enabled. When the
dim LED is off, the auto dim off function is
off; when the Dim LED is lit, the auto dim
off function is on.
Communications Functions
There are two Communications buttons at
the bottom center of the Model 56. Moving
from left to right, the buttons are talk to
headphones and slate. During configura-
tion, LEDs above the Communications
buttons tell you whether the buttons will
latch when you press them. When an LED
is off, the button below it won’t latch. You
would have to press and hold the button
to activate the function. When an LED is
on, it indicates that the button will latch.
Pressing the button will activate the func-
tion until it’s pressed again.
Alternate Configure Functions
To allow additional functions to be config-
ured, an alternate configure mode is
utilized. By pressing and holding the
Level Up button the alternate functions
are accessed. This is like the ALT key
on your personal-computer keyboard.
Slate to Phones
When you press the slate button, the
Model 56’s microphone is fed to the dub
output. This is how you can record your
own voice for marking takes. But there
are times when it’s convenient to have the
slate provided in the headphone output
as well.
While holding Level Up, the Phones LED
is used to display whether the slate will go
to the phones. When the LED is off, slate
goes to the dub output only; when the
LED is on, slate goes to both the dub and
headphone outputs. While holding Level
Up, press the button below the LED to
toggle the setting.
Talk to Phones Interrupt or Add
The talk to phones function can be config-
ured to either interrupt the source selected
for phones audio and connect communica-
tions audio, or to have the communica-
tions audio added (summed or mixed) with
the phones audio.
While holding Level Up, the slate LED is
used to display whether talk to phones will
interrupt the phones source, or add to the
phones source. When the LED is off, the
selected phones source will be interrupted
and the communications audio source will
be connected; when the LED is on the
communications audio source will be add-
ed (mixed) to the phones audio source.
While holding Level Up, press the button
below the LED to toggle the setting.
Allow Two Simultaneous Control Room
Sources
A feature has been added that allows any
two of the four input channels to be simul-
taneously selected for monitoring over the
control room output. This was added for
applications where multiple “rough” or
“scratch” audio signals need to be moni-
tored at the same time. This feature can