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Owner’s Manual
Owner’s Manual
55. C-R/PHNS ONLY (STEREO RETURN 4)
Once again, the default for all the STEREO RETURNS
is to feed them directly into the main mix. You’ve just
learned about the optional exceptions involving STE-
REO RETURN 3.
STEREO RETURN 4 also has an optional exception:
By engaging this switch, you will remove STEREO
RETURN 4’s stereo signal from the main mix and send it
directly to the CTL ROOM/PHONES SOURCE [42] ma-
trix. It matters not if any of the SOURCE matrix switch-
es are assigned, but it will be interrupted, as usual, if a
SOLO [27] switch is engaged.
Let’s pretend you’re doing a live mix to a 2-track deck,
a house PA, or both, and you want to play along to a
click track. You could run the click track directly into
the main mix, but you don’t want the mixdown deck
and/or audience to hear it. By gum, this is the switch
for you. Similarly, it can be used for voice-over tracks,
narration, anything you want heard by the engineer and
players but not by the audience and mixdown deck.
56. RETURNS SOLO and LED
This switch operates just like the channel SOLO [27]
switches — engaging it sends signals to the control
room, headphones, and meter display, and interrupts
whatever happened to be there before you soloed. It
follows the MODE [44] switch setting as well. The only
difference is that when you engage this RETURNS SOLO
switch, it sends all four STEREO RETURNS signals to
the SOLO circuit.
Assume you want to solo the snare drum. Hit that
channel’s SOLO switch, and you get the “dry” (no
effects) snare only. That helps, but you want to hear
it with the reverb you have patched into a STEREO
RETURN. Leaving that channel’s SOLO switch engaged,
also engage the RETURNS SOLO switch, and now you’ll
get the dry snare and its reverb.
Since it is a global feature, you’ll also get the signals
from all the other STEREO RETURNS, so there may be
some sounds that you didn’t want to hear. If they offend
your sensibilities, simply turn down the levels of the
STEREO RETURNS you don’t want to hear, or MUTE
the channels feeding the unwanted signal to the effects
device you do want to hear.
Congratulations! You’ve just read about all the fea-
tures of your 1604-VLZ3. You’re probably ready for a cold
one. Go ahead. The rest of the manual can wait.