Summit Support

We've started receiving support questions for the Summit digital mixer (from actual owners, that is). I thought I'd just share one with you. This one particular customer, from Sweden (not sure it really matters where he's from, but there it is), wanted to know how you use the effects and apply them to more than one input channel.

The process is simple, really. Both of the effect processors allow you to take the source signals from either an input channel or an AUX mix. Therefore, to get the signal from multiple channels to the effects processor, you just need send the channels to an AUX mix. You then use the AUX mix as your effect's signal source.

The easiest way to get your channels to the AUX mix is to push any of the "AUX" buttons to the left of the mixer. This will swap the mixer to AUX send mode, and you can use the faders to send the corresponding channels to the AUX mix you've selected. Piece of cake!

If you've purchased a Summit and have any questions, you can get support through the Phonic website (www.phonic.com).

AUX and Group Mixes

From the first tab of the View menu (CHANNEL) and onto the second tab: AUX/GROUP.

The above picture shows the AUX 1 channel sends.  You can select the AUX or Group mix you want to view/alter by using the icon on the right hand side of this menu (it currently says AUX 1, but will display whichever mix you've currently selected).

You can't see it in this image, but this whole screen is actually a series of level meters.  On the left-hand side of the image you can see 16 virtual rotary controls (brown indicates their "pre-fader sends").  Above these users can view the level of signal that is currently sent from the corresponding channel to the AUX mix.  The overall level of the AUX mix (pre- or post-fader!) can be viewed on the right-hand side next to the virtual fader.

So what are these virtual rotary controls for?  You can actually adjust the AUX sends to the currently chosen mix by pushing these and spinning the onboard jog wheel.  But if this isn't to your liking, the mixer's hardware also has these buttons:

These adjust the FADER MODE of the Summit (as suggested by the CAPITALIZED name above the buttons).  Push the any of these AUX buttons and you will be able to adjust the AUX sends to the selected mix using the 16 channel faders on the Summit.  Piece of cake.

So, for example, you push AUX 1 in the FADER MODE section.  Your faders will then move into their appropriate positions.  If you have absolutely no channel sends to your AUX 1 mix, the faders will all fall down to the minus infinity point.  You can then push any of these faders up to send that channel to your AUX1 mix.  To return to channel mode, simply push the "channel" button in your LAYER MODE section like so:

AUX and Group mixes can be assigned to the Multi Outputs on the back of the mixer, but we'll talk about that when we get there.