Behringer high-precision digital 24-bit/96 kHz EQ/RTA mastering processor DEQ2496 Manual Do Utilizador
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ULTRACURVE PRO DEQ2496
FOREWORD
Dear Customer,
welcome to the team of
ULTRACURVE PRO users
and thank you very much
for expressing your confi-
dence in us by purchasing
the DEQ2496.
Writing this foreword
Writing this foreword
for you gives me great
pleasure, because it re-
presents the culmination
of many months of hard
work delivered by our
engineering team to
achieve a very am-
bitious goal: to offer you
a high-quality device
whose flexibility makes
it suitable for studio and
live applications. The
task of designing our new ULTRACURVE PRO DEQ2496 certainly
meant a great deal of responsibility which we assumed by
focusing on you, the discerning user and musician. Meeting your
expectations also meant a lot of work and night shifts. But it was
fun, too. Developing a product usually brings a lot of people
together, and what a great feeling it is when all who participated
in such a project can be proud of what theyve achieved.
It is our philosophy to share our enjoyment with you, because
you are the most important member of the BEHRINGER team.
With your highly competent suggestions for new products youve
made a significant contribution to shaping our company and making
it successful. In return, we guarantee you uncompromising quality
as well as excellent technical and audio properties at an extremely
reasonable price. All of this will enable you to give free rein to
your creativity without being hampered by budget constraints.
We are often asked how we manage to produce such
high-quality devices at such unbelievably low prices. The answer
is quite simple: its you, our customers! Many satisfied customers
mean large sales volumes enabling us to get better purchasing
terms for components, etc. Isnt it only fair to pass this benefit on
to you? Because we know that your success is our success
too!
I would like to thank all of you who have made the
ULTRACURVE PRO possible. You have all made your own
personal contributions, from the developers to the many other
employees at this company, and to you, the BEHRINGER user.
My friends, its been worth the effort!
Thank you very much,
Uli Behringer
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................... 6
1.1 Before you get started ................................................... 6
1.1.1 Shipment ............................................................... 6
1.1.2 Initial operation ...................................................... 6
1.1.3 Warranty .............................................................. 6
1.2 About this manual ........................................................... 6
2. CONTROL ELEMENTS ............................................... 6
2.1 Front panel ...................................................................... 6
2.2 Rear panel ...................................................................... 7
3. MENU STRUCTURE AND EDITING ............................. 8
3.1 General operation and display structures ..................... 8
3.2 Equalizer modules .......................................................... 8
3.2.1 GEQ menu ............................................................ 8
3.2.2 PEQ menu ............................................................. 8
3.2.3 DEQ menu ............................................................. 9
3.2.4 FBD menu ........................................................... 10
3.3 WIDTH menu ................................................................. 11
3.4 DYN menu ..................................................................... 11
3.4.1 LIMITER menu ..................................................... 12
3.5 UTILITY menu ................................................................ 12
3.6 I/O menu ........................................................................ 13
3.7 BYPASS menu .............................................................. 14
3.8 RTA menu (Real-Time Analyzer) .................................. 14
3.8.1 AUTO EQ function (AEQ) ................................... 15
3.9 MEMORY menu ............................................................. 15
3.10 METER menu ............................................................... 16
3.11 RTA/MIC input .............................................................. 16
3.11.1Connecting a measurement microphone ........... 16
3.11.2Connecting a line signal ..................................... 16
4. APPLICATIONS ........................................................ 17
4.1 Sum-signal equalizer for live applications ................... 17
4.2 Equalizer in the monitor path ........................................ 18
4.3 Using the ULTRACURVE PRO in the studio .................. 18
4.4 Using the ULTRACURVE PRO as a delay unit ............. 18
5. CONNECTIONS ........................................................ 19
5.1 MIDI connections .......................................................... 19
5.2 Analog connections ..................................................... 19
5.3 Digital connections (AES/EBU and S/PDIF) .................. 19
5.4 WORDCLOCK connection ............................................ 20
6. OPERATING SOFTWARE.......................................... 20
7. SPECIFICATIONS ..................................................... 20
7.1 MIDI implementation ....................................................... 21
8. WARRANTY .............................................................. 22