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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.

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!

MTrk

STEREO

LCR

EXT

QUAD

INS

5.1

25-48

MAIN

2345678

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

18 19 20 21 22 23 24

12345678

9 10111213141516

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32

33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

48V

PAD

FLIP

ALL

SWAP

1-8

SWAP

9-16

SWAP

25-32

SWAP

33-40

SWAP

41-48

SWAP

49-56

SWAP

57-64

SWAP

65-72

SWAP

73-80

SWAP

81-88

SELECT

ALL

SET

FROM

SWAP

89-96

MICS

MONO

BUSES

5-CHAN

PRE

5.1/M

CHAN

5.1/ST

MISC

GROUP

MONITOR

INPUT

INSERT

LOAD

DYN

SHOW

PROFILE

CLEAR

INC

BUS

SOURCE

SET

GAIN

BUS 1-48

MAIN

MIC AMP SETTINGS

SOURCE/BUS

BAY SWAPPING EQ/DYN

PATH CHANNEL SELECTION ROUTING ACTION

DCBA

AFL

SET

S-PRE

Lo-Z

S-PRE

INSERT

S-PRE

HPF

LIM

HPF

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Page 1 - Quick Start Routing Guide

Solid State LogicC200Quick Start Routing GuideWelcome to the C200 digital production console. This document is intended primarily as a straightforward

Page 2 - CENTRE COMPRESSOR

With signal routed onto the main busses, you need to choose how those busses will be submixed to the 5.1 output of theconsole. Stabbing the MIX SETUP

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