Spirit UltraMic Plus - Manual

Page 2 - hope you will have as much fun using it as we did building it!

Page 2 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS The SPIRIT MONITOR 2 mixer must only be connected through the Power Supply supplied. The wires in the mains lead are coloured in accordance with the following code: Earth: Green and Yellow (Green/Yellow - US) Neutral: Blue (White - US) Live: Brown (Black - US) As the colour...

Page 3 - Connecting Up

Page 4 - USING MONITOR 2; Mono Input Channel

USING MONITOR 2 Mono Input Channel XLR Input The UltraMic Plus padless input preamp is designed to accept BALANCED or UNBALANCED signals at a wide range of input levels up to +28dBu. When using microphones, professional dynamic, condenser or ribbon mics are best because these will be LOW IMPEDANCE. ...

Page 5 - MONITOR SENDS; MUTE; FADER

Page 5 MONITOR SENDS 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 ...

Page 6 - OUTPUT SECTION; MONITOR OUTPUTS

Page 6 9 10 8 7 6 1 2 3 4 5 11 OUTPUT SECTION MONITOR OUTPUTS These outputs provide summing of the corresponding input channel monitor sends, and drive XLR-type output sockets from impedance balanced outputs. A break-point is included before each output socket for the connection of an external graph...

Page 7 - MASTER SECTION

Page 7 MASTER SECTION WEDGE SOURCE The Engineers Wedge outputs are normally fed from a mix of the MNTR feeds from outputs 1-12. The pre-fade wedge signal feeds the headphones and meters and the post-fade signal feeds the XLR outputs. Pressing the WEDGE SOURCE switch selects monitor outputs 11-12 as...

Page 8 - Setting Up & Troubleshooting; Initial Set Up; Troubleshooting

Page 8 Setting Up & Troubleshooting Initial Set Up Once you have connected up your system (see the sections on connection and wiring earlier in this manual for guidance) you are ready to set initial positions for the controls on your mixer. The front panel drawing on page 17 shows typical initia...

Page 9 - BAND INSTRUMENTS/VOCALS; Live Monitor with Effects

Page 9 BAND INSTRUMENTS/VOCALS Live Monitor with Effects APPLICATIONS

Page 10 - Live Monitor with In-Ear Monitoring

BAND INSTRUMENTS/VOCALS Page 10 Live Monitor with In-Ear Monitoring

Page 11 - Theatre

Page 12 - FOH Console

Page 13 - FOH Console with Subgrouping

Page 14 - System Block Diagram

Page 14 3 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 +48V +48V +48V +48V MIC INPUT SPLIT SPLIT OUTPUT(Internal Link)Link - GroundedNo Link - Ground Lift TIP: SEND RING: RETURN HOUSE MICS FX RET 1 LEFT HOUSE FX RET 1 FX RET 2 HOUSE SENS FX RET 2 LEFT FX RET 1 RIGHT FX RET 2 RIGHT LEFT RIGHT T/B MIC T/B SENS PHASE I...

Page 15 - Connecting Leads

Balanced Unbalanced Insert Leads ’Y’ Leads (Unbalanced) Lamp Connections ’Y’ Leads (Balanced) Headphone Splitter Page 15 Connecting Leads

Page 16 - Control Position Sheet

Control Position Sheet You may freely copy this page to mark control positions to assist in resetting the desk between performances.

Page 17 - MONITOR 2 CONSOLE; Typical Starting Out Control Positions

Page 17 INPUTS MONITOR 2 CONSOLE Typical Starting Out Control Positions

Page 18 - Specifications; Dimensions

Page 18 Specifications Noise Measured RMS, 22Hz to 22kHz Bandwidth. Inputs at unity gain and terminated 150 W Output Noise 24 inputs routed, sends down, master @ unity < -80dBu EIN Mic EIN @ max. gain (150 W terminated) -129dBu THD+N Mic sens. -10dBu, Faders @ unity, send at max., +20dBu at all o...

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