Manual-7
MM 42 Welcome Page
RANE CORPORATION MM 42
PERSONAL MONITOR PROCESSOR
The welcome page displays the device name. This is the
default page on power-up and any time the
CANCEL button
is pressed. The Name Device page of the UTIL menu is used
to enter custom text to suit your liking – “
MY GOLDEN
EARS
,” for example. See page Manual-16 for details.
Basic Navigation & Editing
The Previous
and Next
buttons move the cursor
through each of the parameter fields on a page. Parameter
values are changed by rotating the DATA control.
Repeatedly pressing a button cycles through all pages
associated with a particular function. Each of the five
Parametric EQ filters is a separate page within the EQ
section, for example.
In most cases parameter changes happen – and are heard
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instantly
. In the few cases where they are not (when you are
first prompted to answer a question, for example) the value
flashes until the
ENTER button is pressed. Pressing the
CANCEL button on a flashing parameter automatically
discards that parameter change.
Coarse versus Fine Parameter Adjustment
Parameters covering a large range – frequencies from 20
Hz to 20 kHz, or a Compressor Threshold from 0 dB to -60
dB for example – are adjustable in coarse and fine incre-
ments. Coarse adjustments help get you “in the ballpark”
quickly, and are made by turning the DATA control in its
normal
out
position. Fine adjustments allow you to really
hone in on the parameter of interest (if you prefer the sound
of 631 Hz instead of 630 Hz, for example) and are made by
pushing
in and holding
the DATA control while turning it.
The steps for coarse adjustment of frequencies follow the
soundperson-friendly, 1/3-octave ISO (International Stan-
dards Organization) values you can undoubtedly recite in
your sleep: 40, 50, 63, 80, 100, 125, 160, 200, 250…and so
on. The steps for fine value adjustment of frequencies are
broken into three ranges, as follows:
Range
Coarse
Fine
20 - 999 Hz
ISO centers 20 - 800 Hz
1 Hz
1.0 kHz - 9.9 kHz
ISO centers 1k - 8k
0.1 kHz
10 kHz - 20 kHz
ISO centers 10k - 20k
1 kHz
If a frequency is currently set to a non-ISO value, making
a coarse adjustment bumps the frequency to the next ISO
center. For example, if a frequency is set at the non-ISO
value of 75 Hz, increasing it by one coarse adjustment
changes the frequency to the next ISO center of 80 Hz.
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Output Chain Configuration
The MM 42 features four line-level Inputs, labeled A
through D, which are assignable in any combination to either
or both of the output signal chains and the SUB Output. Such
an arrangement allows tremendous flexibility in setting up
mixes.
Press the CONFIG button. The default configuration is:
CONFIG | MODE OUTPUT1 OUTPUT2 SUB
| STEREO A B A+B
The MODE parameter is highlighted by default. Rotate
the DATA control to select between STEREO and 2-MONO
(two independent mono mixes) mode.
Assign one of the fifteen (!) input combinations to each
output by selecting OUTPUT 1 or OUTPUT 2 and turning
the DATA control to scroll through the various combinations.
Repeat the process for the SUB output, if this output is being
used to drive an external subwoofer or bass shaker.
