Solid State Logic C200 User Manual

Solid State Logic

C200

Quick Start Routing Guide

Welcome to the C200 digital production console. This document is intended primarily as a straightforward guide to routing signals, and also gives some useful shortcuts.

The console has an in-line design, with two faders per channel strip, small fader (SF) and large fader (LF). There are 48 general purpose multitrack busses, and 12 configurable main mix (programme) busses.

The current source and bus assignments for each channel are shown below the meters on the Channel Information display. Everything on the display in blue relates to the large fader path, and everything in gold to the small fader. Normally, both A and B layers are metered simultaneously with the active layer highlighted, and the active channel number stated clearly in the top left of the display. The source names for both A and B layers are also shown; source names for the active layer are marked with an arrow. Press the channel A/B banking button to see the arrows/metering update accordingly.

Bus assignments to the 48 multitrack busses and 12 main mix busses are shown above the source names. Note that both SF and LF can simultaneously feed the 12 main busses. However, only one source can feed the MT Busses with assignments colour coded in blue or gold accordingly.

Changes to all source and bus routing are made from the central routing panel (see opposite). To enable the panel, press the SET button in the lower centre. The channel which was last accessed will appear in the FROM channel selection display. To change this, either scroll through the channels using the arrow keys there, or type the number using the general purpose numeric keypad, or press the lower (attention) key on the appropriate large fader. Once the correct channel has been selected, choose which path you’d like to use from the four buttons on the lower left side: SF, GROUP MONITOR INPUT, LF or INSERT. We’ll assume you chose LF (large fader).

You now need to choose a routing action using the four buttons on the lower right side: SOURCE, BUS, CLEAR, and INC. The BUS button is only available having select SF or LF above, and the INC button only applies to ranges of channels (discussed later in this document). You’ll notice that the SOURCE button has red engraving and a red LED, while the BUS button has black engraving – this colour coding extends to the nine dual-engraved buttons on the upper left side. These are used to choose either a source group (red engraving) when SOURCE is selected, or a pan format (black engraving) when BUS is selected.

All of the sources for the system, including Mic, Line, and Digital inputs are arranged into source groups (red engraving) as MICS, MTrk (recorder returns), FX (reverbs, delays, etc), EXT

(DAT, CD-R, etc.), BUSES (multitrack busses, etc.), INS (EQs, compressors, etc.), PRE (pre-fader direct outputs), CHAN

(post-fader channel direct outputs), and MISC (oscillator, talkback, and anything else!). So if you want to route a mic into your LF, press the MICS source group button, and you will be shown a list of all mics available on the console screen:

When you have found the source you want, press the corresponding numbered button; you will see the name of the source appear on the Channel Information display. If more than 24 mics are available, the buttons on the routing panel marked

A, B, C, and D will indicate additional pages by becoming half-lit.

The MIC button at the top of the channel strip will be half lit. Press it to fully lit to adjust the remote analogue preamp gain. To adjust other mic parameters, use the set of eight buttons at the top right of the routing panel (see below). The SET GAIN button allows access to the currently routed mic input’s analogue gain, through the MISC knob on the panel to the left of the routing. On the channel strip, you will see confirmation of the 48V, HPF, and LIM (analogue limiter) settings on three LEDs to the right of the small fader. The INSERT button is only applicable to Super-Pre mic inputs only and requires the optional insert point to be wired.

	BUS 1-48
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8		S-PRE		SET
	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	48V		PAD
										Lo-Z		GAIN
	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32
	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	S-PRE	HPF	LIM	S-PRE
	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	HPF			INSERT
	MAIN
	LF							LF	MIC AMP SETTINGS
	SF							SF

MICS	MTrk	FX
MONO	STEREO	LCR

EXT	BUSES	INS
QUAD	5-CHAN	5.1

	PRE	CHAN	MISC
	5.1/M	5.1/ST
	SOURCE/BUS

1			2			3			4			5			6			7			8
9			10			11			12			13			14			15			16
17			18			19			20			21			22			23			24
	25-48						MAIN							AFL						SET
																				dB
		A						B						C						D

FLIP	SWAP	SWAP	SWAP	SWAP	SWAP	LOAD
ALL	57-64	65-72	73-80	81-88	89-96	DYN
SWAP	SWAP	SWAP	SWAP	SWAP	SWAP	LOAD	SHOW
							EQ
1-8	9-16	25-32	33-40	41-48	49-56	EQ
							PROFILE
BAY SWAPPING						EQ/DYN
SF	GROUP	SELECT		SET		TO	CLEAR	SOURCE
	MONITOR
		ALL
	INPUT
			FROM		TO
LF	INSERT			1 48			INC	BUS
PATH		CHANNEL SELECTION					ROUTING ACTION

To route this large fader to the busses, press the BUS button at the bottom of the routing panel, which will give you access to multitrack busses 1 through 24 on the numbered buttons above the A, B, C, D buttons. To access MT busses 25 through 48, press the 25-48 button (doubles as button A); to route directly to the 12 main busses, press the MAIN button (doubles as button B).

Having selected your busses, check the format of the panning using the black engraving on the first eight SOURCE/BUS buttons (there is no ninth pan format). The feeds to multitrack and mix busses are not ‘hard-wired’ in any way, so you do not have to treat all odd busses as ‘left’ and even busses as ‘right’. Instead, if you route a fader to bus 1 and bus 3 and choose STEREO pan format, left panning will feed bus 1, and right panning will feed bus 3. Pan formats repeat themselves as required, so routing to busses 1, 3, 4 and 5 in STEREO treats busses 1 and 4 as ‘left’ and 3 and 5 as ‘right’. Likewise choosing

MONO will feed equal level to all selected busses and lock out the channel pan control. Faders are free to feed busses with different pan formats without conflict, and different pan formats may be applied to main and multitrack busses.

The Channel Information display, which normally meters both large and small fader paths (as shown opposite), can be switched to meter just one of the paths using the METER LF or METER SF buttons on the CHANNEL METERS panel. In either of these modes, additional feedback is provided on the mic amp settings and pan format for the selected fader path.

If you want to set an input to silence, or remove either fader’s entire bus routing, you can select the channel number, path, and either SOURCE or BUS, then press and hold the CLEAR button until it flashes.

As a time saving feature, you can also choose a range of channels and route or clear them all with one action; choose the first channel in the range in the normal way, press the TO button to enable the range selection, then choose the last channel - the example above shows channels 1 to 48 selected. Pressing SELECT ALL will choose all channels. When routing sources into a range of channels, you can choose to increment the signal into each new channel automatically (INC on, default), or ‘mult’ the same signal into all the channels (INC off). This allows for fast routing of, say, 48 mics into 48 channels, or alternately the same oscillator source into all channels. Likewise, when routing to busses, each fader may be automatically routed to incrementing multitrack busses, or all may be assigned to the same bus(es). In this way you can quickly set up entire multitrack feeds: eg. select the channel range 1 to 48, choose SF, then BUS (ensuring that INC is lit), then select MT Bus 1 and the MONO pan format, and voila, each small fader is routed to its own bus in mono!