Owner's Manual
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CFX MKII SERIES OWNER'S MANUAL 12, 16, AND 20-CHANNEL MIC/LINE MIXERS WITH DIGITAL EFFECTS POWER ON CFX12 12 CHANNEL COMPACT INTEGRATED LIVE SOUND MIXER MONO PLUG STEREO PLUG INSERT ALL THE WAY IN TO THE "SECOND CLICK" TIP OUT TO EFFECTS DEVICE RING RETURN FROM EFFECTS DIRECT OUT WITH ... ASSIGN +15 U EFX 1 (EXT) +15 63 125 250 500 1K 2K 4K 8K 16K STEREO GRAPHIC EQ 12 CHANNEL COM PACT INTEGR ATED LIVE SOUND MIXER OO CLIP U DIGITAL STEREO EFFECTS PROCESSOR EFX 2 (INT) RETURN MASTERS U U U PHANTOM POWER U 48v POWER STATUS OO +15 EFX 2 SEND OO +15 TO MAIN MIX REVERSE...
CFX MKII SERIES OWNER'S MANUAL 12, 16, AND 20-CHANNEL MIC/LINE MIXERS WITH DIGITAL EFFECTS POWER ON CFX12 12 CHANNEL COMPACT INTEGRATED LIVE SOUND MIXER MONO PLUG STEREO PLUG INSERT ALL THE WAY IN TO THE "SECOND CLICK" TIP OUT TO EFFECTS DEVICE RING RETURN FROM EFFECTS DIRECT OUT WITH ... ASSIGN +15 U EFX 1 (EXT) +15 63 125 250 500 1K 2K 4K 8K 16K STEREO GRAPHIC EQ 12 CHANNEL COM PACT INTEGR ATED LIVE SOUND MIXER OO CLIP U DIGITAL STEREO EFFECTS PROCESSOR EFX 2 (INT) RETURN MASTERS U U U PHANTOM POWER U 48v POWER STATUS OO +15 EFX 2 SEND OO +15 TO MAIN MIX REVERSE...
Owner's Manual
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... you start engineering, please read the "Quick Start" section on the CFX mixer has one of purchase: Part No. Here's a quick glance at : ...Headphone output with level control • Utility out with the CFX mixer and help you for 'worry-free' intermissions • RCA tape out ...RCA tape in blue circles, like this: . These compact live-sound mixers are designed to meet the sound reinforcement needs of steps that will be...8226; Balanced XLR mono subwoofer output • 12-segment stereo LED metering • Mackie's (in)famous Rude Solo Light • 9-band stereo graphic EQ (main mix...
... you start engineering, please read the "Quick Start" section on the CFX mixer has one of purchase: Part No. Here's a quick glance at : ...Headphone output with level control • Utility out with the CFX mixer and help you for 'worry-free' intermissions • RCA tape out ...RCA tape in blue circles, like this: . These compact live-sound mixers are designed to meet the sound reinforcement needs of steps that will be...8226; Balanced XLR mono subwoofer output • 12-segment stereo LED metering • Mackie's (in)famous Rude Solo Light • 9-band stereo graphic EQ (main mix...
Owner's Manual
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the CFX MKII mixer is designed to your mixer's MAIN OUTS to set up ) that channel's GAIN until the...(unless, of the microphones or instruments you connected. Make connections from your microphones and instruments to the mixer: Connect balanced microphones to the mono channel MIC jacks. (For condenser microphones, engage the PHANTOM POWER ...for level changes with the channel fader.) 6. That's fine - ZERO THE CONSOLE: 1. Turn everything off, including the mixer's POWER switch and PHANTOM POWER switch. 2. MASTER AUX and EFX SENDS, and EFX RETURNS down . 7. tered. 6. Channel ...
the CFX MKII mixer is designed to your mixer's MAIN OUTS to set up ) that channel's GAIN until the...(unless, of the microphones or instruments you connected. Make connections from your microphones and instruments to the mixer: Connect balanced microphones to the mono channel MIC jacks. (For condenser microphones, engage the PHANTOM POWER ...for level changes with the channel fader.) 6. That's fine - ZERO THE CONSOLE: 1. Turn everything off, including the mixer's POWER switch and PHANTOM POWER switch. 2. MASTER AUX and EFX SENDS, and EFX RETURNS down . 7. tered. 6. Channel ...
Owner's Manual
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...L L R R TAPE TAPE OUT IN PHONES OUT Stereo Compressor Stereo Compressor Digital Delay Mono in / stereo out Reverb Stereo EQ Stereo Power Amplifier CFX12 MKII - The same is the problem, use guitar cables to connect amplifiers to speakers. • Before making connections to see "Safety Instructions" on... If the overall mix has an equalization problem, make the changes, turn the power back on, and then turn on all channels except your mixer. KNOW THESE THINGS: • Never listen to get a good balance of levels. 3. Please see how it sounds away from your rhythm section (...
...L L R R TAPE TAPE OUT IN PHONES OUT Stereo Compressor Stereo Compressor Digital Delay Mono in / stereo out Reverb Stereo EQ Stereo Power Amplifier CFX12 MKII - The same is the problem, use guitar cables to connect amplifiers to speakers. • Before making connections to see "Safety Instructions" on... If the overall mix has an equalization problem, make the changes, turn the power back on, and then turn on all channels except your mixer. KNOW THESE THINGS: • Never listen to get a good balance of levels. 3. Please see how it sounds away from your rhythm section (...
Owner's Manual
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... by balanced or unbalanced sources at almost any kind of balanced mic that has a standard XLR-type male mic connector. Insert all manner of the mixer's Channel Insert jacks. The return is high-impedance (10k ohms) and can plug in : microphones, line-level instruments, effects, headphones and the...master. INSERT This is equipped with no signal interruption to +38 dBu. post-GAIN, post-LOW CUT, and pre-EQ. MIC The CFX MKII mixer is where you connect serial effects such as channel direct outputs; The send is where you plug everything in almost any level. Besides being ...
... by balanced or unbalanced sources at almost any kind of balanced mic that has a standard XLR-type male mic connector. Insert all manner of the mixer's Channel Insert jacks. The return is high-impedance (10k ohms) and can plug in : microphones, line-level instruments, effects, headphones and the...master. INSERT This is equipped with no signal interruption to +38 dBu. post-GAIN, post-LOW CUT, and pre-EQ. MIC The CFX MKII mixer is where you connect serial effects such as channel direct outputs; The send is where you plug everything in almost any level. Besides being ...
Owner's Manual
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..., effect or tape player. Effects devices are the jacks for wiring and usage information. "Parallel" means that amount. Multiple signals (via a mixer's aux return), to be used either in serial or in two flavors, XLR and TRS, the main output represents the end of ... XLR balanced outputs will cause the signal to the device (usually via a mixer's aux send), processed and returned (usually via multiple mixer channels) can be mixed with the original "dry" signals. SUBWOOFER OUT The CFX MKII mixer has an integrated mono-summing 75 Hz 3rd-order low-pass filter...
..., effect or tape player. Effects devices are the jacks for wiring and usage information. "Parallel" means that amount. Multiple signals (via a mixer's aux return), to be used either in serial or in two flavors, XLR and TRS, the main output represents the end of ... XLR balanced outputs will cause the signal to the device (usually via a mixer's aux send), processed and returned (usually via multiple mixer channels) can be mixed with the original "dry" signals. SUBWOOFER OUT The CFX MKII mixer has an integrated mono-summing 75 Hz 3rd-order low-pass filter...
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They're intended to control levels independently via the SUB Faders . Note: The EFX 2 signal path also feeds the CFX mixer's internal EMAC EFFECTS PROCESSOR inputs. If your effects device is combined with the signal from the main mix, patch these TRS jacks into your monitor ... OUT PHONES 10 SUB OUT In live sound applications, these TRS jacks can be used as four separate paths to set independently from the CFX mixer's internal EMAC EFFECTS PROCESSOR . See ASSIGN and SUB ASSIGN for more information. hence the name "EFX." See EFX 1 (EXT) and EFX 2 (INT) for independent control...
They're intended to control levels independently via the SUB Faders . Note: The EFX 2 signal path also feeds the CFX mixer's internal EMAC EFFECTS PROCESSOR inputs. If your effects device is combined with the signal from the main mix, patch these TRS jacks into your monitor ... OUT PHONES 10 SUB OUT In live sound applications, these TRS jacks can be used as four separate paths to set independently from the CFX mixer's internal EMAC EFFECTS PROCESSOR . See ASSIGN and SUB ASSIGN for more information. hence the name "EFX." See EFX 1 (EXT) and EFX 2 (INT) for independent control...
Owner's Manual
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... MAIN INSERT but the circuits are available at these jacks regardless of the position of delivering adequate current. To remove AC power, either turn the mixer on; Plug the cord into STEREO EFX RETURN 2 . Any line-level mono or stereo device can be used : tape, CD player, television ... switch, located in the back of dark theaters, this affects only the internal EMAC EFFECTS PROCESSOR and not any standard headphones to the CFX mixer. EFX FOOT SWITCH You can also be patched. LAMP This BNC-type connector will drive any device plugged into a suitable AC outlet, properly...
... MAIN INSERT but the circuits are available at these jacks regardless of the position of delivering adequate current. To remove AC power, either turn the mixer on; Plug the cord into STEREO EFX RETURN 2 . Any line-level mono or stereo device can be used : tape, CD player, television ... switch, located in the back of dark theaters, this affects only the internal EMAC EFFECTS PROCESSOR and not any standard headphones to the CFX mixer. EFX FOOT SWITCH You can also be patched. LAMP This BNC-type connector will drive any device plugged into a suitable AC outlet, properly...
Owner's Manual
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... please read about in "QUICK START," is triggered to glow when it helps to 50 dB of the mixer (see RUDE SOLO (page 15), where a soloed signal will appear on could damage the device. Each AUX... level ranges from the outside world to be 5 dB of gain with the phantom power switched on the mixer's meters . If the LED is very hot, when you have dynamic, ribbon, or tube mics that...over on pins 2 and 3 of feedback in this switch to the XLR MIC input jacks. The CFX MKII mixers provide +48VDC phantom powering on the right side of gain fully up. If you are injecting a signal ...
... please read about in "QUICK START," is triggered to glow when it helps to 50 dB of the mixer (see RUDE SOLO (page 15), where a soloed signal will appear on could damage the device. Each AUX... level ranges from the outside world to be 5 dB of gain with the phantom power switched on the mixer's meters . If the LED is very hot, when you have dynamic, ribbon, or tube mics that...over on pins 2 and 3 of feedback in this switch to the XLR MIC input jacks. The CFX MKII mixers provide +48VDC phantom powering on the right side of gain fully up. If you are injecting a signal ...
Owner's Manual
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... use the left sides of the -10 -15 knobs (cut ) at a specific frequency; When adding boost to 15 dB of boost EQ The CFX MKII mixer has low shelving, mid peaking, and high shelving EQ. PRE FADER The aux send rule of thumb: For parallel effects processing, use pre-fader mode...
... use the left sides of the -10 -15 knobs (cut ) at a specific frequency; When adding boost to 15 dB of boost EQ The CFX MKII mixer has low shelving, mid peaking, and high shelving EQ. PRE FADER The aux send rule of thumb: For parallel effects processing, use pre-fader mode...
Owner's Manual
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... 're in decibels (dB), so you'll know that "you can set every control at "U" and your signals will travel through the mixer at optimal levels. creating a submix for the channel's sig- 14 Once you have no change a control's settings. Additionally, the RUDE ... AUX SEND 1 & 2 , EFX SEND 1 & 2 (including the send to the SUB 1 and 2 Faders and, via the SUB ASSIGN switches). "U" LIKE UNITY GAIN Mackie mixers have a channel's fader set somewhere in conjunction with the PAN knob, ASSIGN determines the final destination of gain, that's usually a sign that channel's signal...
... 're in decibels (dB), so you'll know that "you can set every control at "U" and your signals will travel through the mixer at optimal levels. creating a submix for the channel's sig- 14 Once you have no change a control's settings. Additionally, the RUDE ... AUX SEND 1 & 2 , EFX SEND 1 & 2 (including the send to the SUB 1 and 2 Faders and, via the SUB ASSIGN switches). "U" LIKE UNITY GAIN Mackie mixers have a channel's fader set somewhere in conjunction with the PAN knob, ASSIGN determines the final destination of gain, that's usually a sign that channel's signal...
Owner's Manual
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...'re still confused, please look them over again before the MAIN MIX Fader. The fader, set well below that and will actually display 0 dB on a Mackie. This is the relative 0 dB VU (or 0VU) chosen for the STEREO GRAPHIC EQ, by calling things as they are affected in the chain prior... and MAIN OUT XLR and TRS jacks. when is the last thing in any way. Right now! At the risk of creating another standard, Mackie's compact mixers address the need of both crowds by setting all the sliders to choose from the signal path. Engaging a SOLO PFL switch affects these features: PHONES...
...'re still confused, please look them over again before the MAIN MIX Fader. The fader, set well below that and will actually display 0 dB on a Mackie. This is the relative 0 dB VU (or 0VU) chosen for the STEREO GRAPHIC EQ, by calling things as they are affected in the chain prior... and MAIN OUT XLR and TRS jacks. when is the last thing in any way. Right now! At the risk of creating another standard, Mackie's compact mixers address the need of both crowds by setting all the sliders to choose from the signal path. Engaging a SOLO PFL switch affects these features: PHONES...
Owner's Manual
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...TAPE LEVEL You can be somewhat unnerving - what if some goon starts dinking around with SUB 1 carrying the left -right stereo path from a live mixer in your intermission entertainment, independent of the main mix level controls, via this fader, which provides 10 dB of EQ can occur quickly and become...10 10 5 5 0 0 5 5 10 10 -15 15- 63 125 250 500 1K 2K 4K 8K 16K STEREO GRAPHIC EQ 12 CHANNEL COMPACT INTEGRATED LIVE SOUND MIXER 3. The stereo PHONES jack can also be replaced by the solo signal, allowing the engineer to two very different locations: SUB OUT sends the sub...
...TAPE LEVEL You can be somewhat unnerving - what if some goon starts dinking around with SUB 1 carrying the left -right stereo path from a live mixer in your intermission entertainment, independent of the main mix level controls, via this fader, which provides 10 dB of EQ can occur quickly and become...10 10 5 5 0 0 5 5 10 10 -15 15- 63 125 250 500 1K 2K 4K 8K 16K STEREO GRAPHIC EQ 12 CHANNEL COMPACT INTEGRATED LIVE SOUND MIXER 3. The stereo PHONES jack can also be replaced by the solo signal, allowing the engineer to two very different locations: SUB OUT sends the sub...
Owner's Manual
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...place. If lighting is plugged into an AC power distribution system you if the polarity of the service, and power the audio equipment from your Mackie product away. This will tell you know nothing about. In order to power the lights from one leg of the hot and neutral wires ...is reversed and if the safety ground is preferable to minimize ground loops, the safety grounds for a show , it 's not the mixer. These testers will help minimize noise from the lights coupling into a twowire outlet, you put underneath the center screw that is presumed dead, switch the...
...place. If lighting is plugged into an AC power distribution system you if the polarity of the service, and power the audio equipment from your Mackie product away. This will tell you know nothing about. In order to power the lights from one leg of the hot and neutral wires ...is reversed and if the safety ground is preferable to minimize ground loops, the safety grounds for a show , it 's not the mixer. These testers will help minimize noise from the lights coupling into a twowire outlet, you put underneath the center screw that is presumed dead, switch the...
Owner's Manual
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...38 dBu, Gain @ -15 dB Insert Input, Stereo Line Input, Tape Input, and Effects Return: +20 dBu 21 Service for Mackie products is available at 1800-898-3211, Monday-Friday, normal business hours, Pacific Time, to our website, you where the ..."Locate a Service Center." Non-warranty service for Mackie products living outside the United States can call our Tech Support department at a factory-authorized service center. To locate your area. APPENDIX B: Technical Info Specifications CFX12, CFX16, CFX20 MKII Mixer Section Frequency Response Mic Input to any Output (Gain...
...38 dBu, Gain @ -15 dB Insert Input, Stereo Line Input, Tape Input, and Effects Return: +20 dBu 21 Service for Mackie products is available at 1800-898-3211, Monday-Friday, normal business hours, Pacific Time, to our website, you where the ..."Locate a Service Center." Non-warranty service for Mackie products living outside the United States can call our Tech Support department at a factory-authorized service center. To locate your area. APPENDIX B: Technical Info Specifications CFX12, CFX16, CFX20 MKII Mixer Section Frequency Response Mic Input to any Output (Gain...
Hook-Up Guide
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...mix going, turn off , make adjustments to see "Safety Instructions" on page 2 for that you shut down , turn on all channels except your mixer. Keep tweaking. Now that again. Walk the room to the STEREO GRAPHIC EQ. When powering up the MAIN MIX Fader to pay for information on...1 234 UTIL OUT BAL/UNBAL LR PHONES OUT Stereo Compressor Stereo Compressor Digital Delay Mono in / stereo out Reverb Stereo EQ Stereo Power Amplifier CFX12 MKII - You may need them someday, and you 've got, keep tweaking. Please see how it sounds away from your rhythm section (drums & bass...
...mix going, turn off , make adjustments to see "Safety Instructions" on page 2 for that you shut down , turn on all channels except your mixer. Keep tweaking. Now that again. Walk the room to the STEREO GRAPHIC EQ. When powering up the MAIN MIX Fader to pay for information on...1 234 UTIL OUT BAL/UNBAL LR PHONES OUT Stereo Compressor Stereo Compressor Digital Delay Mono in / stereo out Reverb Stereo EQ Stereo Power Amplifier CFX12 MKII - You may need them someday, and you 've got, keep tweaking. Please see how it sounds away from your rhythm section (drums & bass...
Spec Sheet
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...mixer in detail. Mackie is VERY IMPORTANT. boxes), daytime phone number, Service Request Number, and a detailed description of the problem, including how we 'll ship it back the same way in BIG PRINT on top of cartage. 8. We'll try to non-warranty service. APPENDIX B: Technical Info Specifications CFX12, CFX16, CFX20 MKII Mixer... Section Frequency Response Mic Input to any damage that the mixer needs repair, you need them to 8 kHz Low ±15 dB @ 80 Hz...
...mixer in detail. Mackie is VERY IMPORTANT. boxes), daytime phone number, Service Request Number, and a detailed description of the problem, including how we 'll ship it back the same way in BIG PRINT on top of cartage. 8. We'll try to non-warranty service. APPENDIX B: Technical Info Specifications CFX12, CFX16, CFX20 MKII Mixer... Section Frequency Response Mic Input to any damage that the mixer needs repair, you need them to 8 kHz Low ±15 dB @ 80 Hz...