User manual FENDER NEWPORTER

[. . . ] It is an integral part of the audio chain and should be treated with special care and attention to detail. At Fender, we know what building quality musical instruments and sound reinforcement equipment is all about. In fact, many of the world's best sounding electric musical instruments and sound reinforcement equipment proudly wear the Fender name. Whether you need a simple box top powered mixer for your Saturday afternoon jam, or a professional full-size concert system, Fender has the sound reinforcement equipment to meet your needs. [. . . ] Slowly bring up the appropriate channel input level control (ie: if the microphone is plugged into Mic/Line 1 input, the appropriate channel control is labeled Mic/Line 1 Level), listening for the onset of feedback or howling or until the required level is reached. Have a helper "walk" the audience area to make sure coverage and levels are sufficient for your needs. The system's overall volume can be raised simply by rotating the Left and Right Master volume controls to the desired level. The height of the speakers above the audience is critical to effective sound coverage and optimum quality. For maximum sound quality and minimum room interference, Passport's speakers have been specially designed to work with tripod and speaker support systems. Using the optional Passport Tripod kit, set the speakers at the maximum safe height that will allow listeners at the rear of the audience area to get a clear "view" of the speaker systems. Nothing absorbs sound better that a few hundred people between you and the speaker system. Always set up speaker support and tripod systems in strict accordance with the owner's manuals and safety requirements of those devices. It is very important that the speakers are aimed and positioned as far away from and in front of the microphones as cables allow. Your Passport P-51 microphones have a cardioid pick-up pattern and are designed to reject as much sound coming from the sides and rear of the microphone as possible. If the loudest sound the microphone picksup is the sound from the speaker systems, destructive feedback-howling will result. See the section referring to speaker placement and mounting and avoid setting the VIP threshold unnecessarily high. 9 EQ Equalization Contour Control: This unique and powerful feature of the Passport allows fast and easy adjustment of the tonal character of a microphone or other source. For close microphone use, where low frequencies may become excessive, simply rotate the control to the left until things sound better. For musical instruments or other sources where subtle or more significant boosting of both the high and low frequencies is desired, simply rotate the control to the right until the sound achieves the desirable balance. Note: This control features a detented or notched position indicator at its center or flat position. For each new mix set-up start with this control in the notched position. Rev/Aux: This control adjusts the amount of signal sent to the Reverb processor, and to the Rev/Aux output jack. Reverb can be used to enhance the sound quality of any performance where appropriate and desired. Care should be taken to set the Reverb return master control to a middle position or above, before adjusting levels from the individual channels. When the reverb/auxiliary mix is set, overall levels of reverb can be adjusted at the master control. Pan The Pan control features a notched position indicator and adjusts the perceived "position" of the mono signal from the input within the stereo "panorama" created by the two speaker systems. [. . . ] The sensitivity of these inputs is suited for playback devices such as CDs, Cassettes, DAT or Mini Disc. Use a two circuit (stereo) phone plug and wire the signal to both the Tip and Ring, with the ground to sleeve. 12 Tape Out The Tape Out RCA jacks provide a mix output that is independent of the Master Level Controls. Connect these to the inputs of a recording device, such as a cassette or DAT recorder, to record your event. Changes made during the performance, to the input level controls, channel EQ, and reverb controls will be heard in the Tape Out mix, changes made to the master level controls will not effect the level of the recording. [. . . ]