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Featuring
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INTRODUCTION Thank you for purchasing a Monitor 2 mixer, brought to you with pride by the SPIRIT team of Andy, Colin, Chris, James, Simon, Mukesh, Graham, Martin, Paul, Tony and Peter, with the support of many others - we hope you will have as much fun using it as we did building it! SAFETY PRECAUTIONS The SPIRIT MONITOR 2 mixer must only be connected For your own safety and to through the Power Supply supplied. avoid invalidation of the warranty please read this section carefully. The wires
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Connecting Up 24 INPUTS Page 3
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100Hz HI-PASS FILTER USING MONITOR 2 Pressing this switch activates a steep 18dB per octave filter which reduces the level of bass frequencies only. Use this in live PA situations to clean up Mono Input Channel 1 the mix, reducing stage rumble or popping from microphones. XLR Input INSERT POINT The UltraMic Plus padless input preamp is designed to accept BALANCED or The unbalanced, pre-EQ insert point is a break in the channel signal path, UNBALANCED signals at a wide range of input levels up
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MONITOR SENDS 7 These controls route the input channel signal to any one or more Monitor busses and the associated Monitor Outputs, allowing a number of unique monitor mixes to be created. The sends are arranged as a group of mono sends (1-8) and two stereo pairs (9/10 & 11/12). Each group of sends is normally POST-FADE, POST-EQ but may be switched to PRE-FADE, POST-EQ by pressing the corresponding PRE switch. All sends are muted when the MUTE switch (9) is pressed. Sends 9-12 are arranged
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FOH Facility OUTPUT SECTION A sub-grouping facility is included on outputs 1-10 to allow the console to be used as a FOH mixer. Pressing the 11-12 switch MONITOR OUTPUTS routes the post-fade, post-insert signal to the Monitor 11/12 These outputs provide summing of the corresponding input channel busses, enabling these outputs to be used as a stereo final mix. monitor sends, and drive XLR-type output sockets from impedance The PAN control positions the monitor signal in the stereo 11 balanced ou
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FX RETURNS MASTER SECTION Two balanced Stereo Returns are included for the outputs of effects units WEDGE SOURCE and are made available for mixing directly to the Monitor outputs at a level The Engineers Wedge outputs are normally fed from a mix of the MNTR set by the FX1 RET or FX2 RET controls. If a mono source is used, plugging feeds from outputs 1-12. The pre-fade wedge signal feeds the headphones into the Left jack only automatically feeds the signal to both Left and Right. 2 and meters
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l Feed the signal to selected monitor outputs by Setting Up & Troubleshooting Troubleshooting setting the appropriate monitor sends to an initial Hum on outputs when SPLIT OUT sockets are used working level (approx. position 7 on the send No Power Initial Set Up knob). Listen to the signal by feeding the l Check for ground loops, and try isolating the Once you have connected up your system (see the selected monitor signal to the engineers wedge l Is the mains supply present? Check the mains S
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APPLICATIONS Live Monitor with Effects BAND INSTRUMENTS/VOCALS Page 9
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Live Monitor with In-Ear Monitoring BAND INSTRUMENTS/VOCALS Page 10
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Theatre Page 11
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FOH Console Page 12
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FOH Console with Subgrouping Page 13
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System Block Diagram +48V +48V PEAK DETECT INPUT & PFL ON PHASE PFL SENS PEAK 100Hz DETECT SOLO/PFL MIC TRIM INPUT PFL 2 3 PHONES SOLO L 1 PHONES MONITOR EQ SPLIT INSERT SOLO R 2 3 1 MASTER T/B 1 TIP: SEND RING: RETURN MASTER SPLIT OUTPUT WEDGE/SOLO (Internal Link) DIM 2 SOLO L METER L Link - Grounded No Link - Ground Lift SIG MNTR WEDGE 3 SIGNAL SOURCE 11-12 WEDGE DETECT WEDGE L 3 4 DIM 1 2 MUTE 5 WEDGE 6 R 3 DIM 2 1 1-8 7 PRE PFL/SOLO SOLO R 8 ENABLE INPUT WEDGE/SOLO FADER METER R 9 9-10
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Connecting Leads ’Y’ Leads (Balanced) Balanced Unbalanced Headphone Splitter ’Y’ Leads (Unbalanced) Insert Leads Lamp Connections Page 15
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Control Position Sheet You may freely copy this page to mark control positions to assist in resetting the desk between performances.
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INPUTS MONITOR 2 CONSOLE Typical Starting Out Control Positions Page 17
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Dimensions 87.5 mm Specifications (3.44") dim. ’x’ Noise Measured RMS, 22Hz to 22kHz Bandwidth. Inputs at unity gain and terminated 150W Output Noise 24 inputs routed, sends down, master @ unity < -80dBu EIN dim. ’y’ Mic EIN @ max. gain (150Wterminated) -129dBu THD+N Width without end trim Mic sens. -10dBu, Faders @ unity, send at max., (for flight case mounting) +20dBu at all outputs @ 1kHz <0.005% Crosstalk (@1kHz) Typical Channel send range >90dB Console dim ’x’ dim ’y’ Channel fader
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