Board Test Panasonic RAMSA Digital Audio Mixer (WR-DA7)

Note: Some of the following steps refer to the Top Panel graphic contained on the final page of this document. The numbers refer to general area on the Panel, not to specific buttons or switches on the Panel. Turn on, initialize and set up the RAMSA Audio Mixer 1. Ensure that both monitor speakers are Off 2. Turn on the two power bars on the floor behind the audio station by pressing the red buttons 3. Turn on the RAMSA Audio Mixer as follows: Press and simultaneously hold down the METER and CHANNEL buttons (item #3) in the MASTER DISPLAY area of the board Press the POWER switch on the rear panel of the RAMSA Audio Mixer (continue to hold the METER and CHANNEL buttons down until the Mixer is initialized). Note that you may see some faders move to the bottom position on the Panel. If this happens then you can let go of the buttons, otherwise hold the METER and CHANNEL buttons down for about 10 seconds after releasing the Power button to ensure that the Mixer has been initialized. 4. Press the D-I/O button (item #13) 5. Select INT 44.1K with the cursor keys (item #17) if its not already selected. 6. Press ENTER (item #17) 7. Press the CHANNEL button (item #3) 8. Set up Channel 13 using the Channel Fader Strip (item #1) and the Pan/Assign/Surround, Bus Assign section (item #5), as follows: Press the Channel 13 ON button Press the Channel 13 SELECT button Press the DIRECT button (item #5) Using the cursor keys (item #17), move to the first item (BUS 01) under SLOT 2 (AES/EBU) Press the ENTER button (item #17) (Input 13 will automatically appear) 9. Repeat step #8 to set up Channel 14 (inputting Channel 14 into Bus 02 instead) 10. Set up Channel 25 using the Channel Fader Strip (item #1) and the Pan/Assign/Surround, Bus Assign section (item #5), as follows: Press the FLIP button on Channel 9 Press the ON button for Channel 25 located in the Channel 9/25 strip Press the SELECT button for Channel 25 Press the CHANNEL button (item #3) Press the L/R button (item #5)
Flip Select On

Fader

Channel Fader Strip

Pan

L/R Direct

Pan/Assign/Surround, Bus Assign

Turn the PAN/ASSIGN knob (item #5) to the left until the Pan indicator in the lower portion of the screen indicates L16

11. Repeat step#10 for Channel 26, but turn the PAN/ASSIGN knob to the right (showing R16 on the screen instead of L16). 12. Push the faders (item #1) for Channels 9, 10, 13 & 14 to 0 13. Push the MASTER L/R fader (item #10) to 0 14. Press the ON button (item #10) for the MASTER L/R channel strip 15. Press the L/R button (item #12) in the MONITOR A group of controls (not MONITOR B) 16. Turn the MONITOR A LEVEL knob to approximately 3 Turn on the Macintosh computer, start Pro Tools and set up a session for recording 1. Press the power button on the Macintosh keyboard (the leftpointing triangle in the upper-right corner of the keyboard) 2. After the operating system has started, clear any error messages that may have come up onto the screen 3. Click Audio/Midi in the top toolbar and then click Pro Tools5.0 4. Create a new Pro Tools session as follows: Click File and New Session in the menu bar Select a location for your session files. (A good, temporary location is EXT HD1, Public Storage.) Type a name for your session (since this is a temporary session you can type something like deleteme) Click Save Click the radio button next to 16 to select the bit depth and then click OK 5. Create 2 new tracks and prepare them for recording as follows: Click File and New Track Type 2 to change the information on the dialog window to Create 2 new Audio Track(s) and then click Create Click Display and then click Show Mix Window to show Channel Fader Strips for the two new channels Using the Pan fader (the fader in the middle of the window that moves left-to-right), set the panning for Audio 1 to the left and set the panning for Audio 2 to the right Click the rec button for both tracks (your screen may only show r instead of rec) Close the Mix Window Test the setup and record audio tracks 1 and 2 1. Press the keys on the keyboard to ensure dancing green lights on the VU meters on the Mixer as well as in the recording windows for both audio tracks in Pro Tools on the Macintosh computer. If you have the green lights, then turn on the monitor speakers using the power switches on the front of each speaker. 2. Record 30 seconds of music from the keyboard as follows:
MONITOR SECTION MONITOR A LEVEL L/R

Click the record button (the button with the big red dot) in the transport window. (The Transport window contains the Play, Stop, Pause, etc. buttons near the bottom of the screen) Click the Play button (the button with the right-pointing triangle) Play music on the keyboard for 30 seconds. Click Stop (the button with the square) Ensure that your audio tracks dont get recorded over later by clicking rec for both tracks (this deselects the rec button to turn future recording off) Click the Play button to verify that your tracks have been recorded

3. Turn off the monitor speakers Record your voice onto a new track 1. Make sure that the monitor speakers are turned off! 2. Unplug the cable thats going into Channel 1 in the rear of the RAMSA Audio Mixer 3. Plug in your microphone cable 4. Plug the microphone into the other end of the cable 5. Plug headphones into the headphone jack located at the bottom-front of the RAMSA Audio Mixer 6. Set up Channel #1 the same you set up Channels 13 and 14 (see step #8), however, use the cursor keys (item #17) to move to the third item (BUS 03) under SLOT 2 (AES/EBU)and press Enter to automatically select Input 1 7. Push the Channel 1 fader (item #1) to 0 8. While listening to the headphones, speak into the microphone. You should now see the VU Meter lights flashing and you should hear your voice in the headphones. If you cant hear your voice but you can see the lights, then turn up the headphone volume using the knob located to the left of the headphone plug. 9. On the Macintosh computer, create one (1) new track for the recording of your voice. (Click File, New Track and create one (1) new audio track.) 10. Click the rec button for this new track. (There is no need to pan this track left or right) 11. When ready to record your voice, click the record button on the transport window and then click the play button. 12. Begin talking into the microphone. When finished recording, click the stop button. 13. Disable recording for this audio track by clicking the rec button for your voice audio track 14. Turn on the monitor speakers. 15. Click the play button to play your three-track recording

Put it all away 1. Play your successful recording for the instructor 2. Shut everything down as follows: Turn off the monitor speakers On the Macintosh, shut down Pro Tools application by clicking File, Quit. Answer Dont Save when asked to save. (You dont really need to save this session.) After Pro Tools has shut down, shut down the Macintosh computer by clicking Special and then Shut down Return all knobs and faders to their default positions on the RAMSA Audio Mixer. Turn the Mixer off using the Power switch on the rear panel. Turn off the two power bars on the floor behind the audio station by pressing the red buttons Panasonic RAMSA Digital Audio Mixer (WR-DA7) Top Panel Diagram 1. Channel Fader Strip (also called Channel Strip) 2. AUTOMATION/AUX LED button 3. MASTER DISPLAY section 4. EQUALIZER section 5. PAN/ASSIGN/SURROUND, BUSS ASSIGN section 6. DYNAMICS/DELAY section 7. AUX section 8. Display Bridge 9. BUS Fader Strip 10. MASTER L/R Fader Strip 11. Fader Layer Controls section 12. MONITOR section 13. SETUP section 14. SCENE MEMORY section 15. LIBRARY section 16. Keypad 17. Cursor Control section 18. Headset Control section