Stereo Foldback System

Introduction

The Que-8 was designed in conjunction with a major recording studio. It offers all the facilities demanded by today's musicians and vocalists.

With one user friendly unit the artiste can control what he or she wants to hear without wasting precious recording time. Built to Formula Sound's enviable quality standards, studio managers can be sure that the Que-8 will deliver quality sound reliably, in both studio and touring situations.

The Que-8 will deliver more power into 200Ω headphones than the most demanding performer is ever likely to need.

The Que-8 is designed to interface with the studio mixing console and is usually connected to auxiliary send outputs. It has 8 channel mixing facilities. Headphone brackets and stands as optional extras.

In the studio, the theatre or a touring situation, the Que-8 enables performers to adjust their own monitor mixes, leaving the balance engineer to concentrate on the creativity of the recording or PA mix.

The Que-8

If artistes in a recording session are to produce their best work they need to be completely happy with their monitoring feeds. The Que-8 system allows individual artistes to control what they wish to hear. Artistes around the world love using the Que-8 system and are its best ambassadors.

The Que-8 is an 8 channel mixer with the output connected to the artiste's headphones.

Each channel has a 60mm fader to adjust the channel volume, and a rotary pan control to position the signal anywhere in the final stereo picture. The summed signals are fed via stereo, treble, bass and volume controls to the output sockets. Low, medium or high impedance headphones are catered for. The output stages use conservatively rated devices and custom wound transformers to provide the sparkling performance artistes love.

Local input sockets on the side of the unit are also provided to allow artistes to connect directly into the system.

Distribution

A 4 way powered distribution unit to power 4 QUE-8/10 units is available.

This unit is standard 19" rack mount 2RU. 38 way EDAC connectors are used for the outputs to the Que-8 mixer. 2 paralleled 38 way connectors are located on the rear of the distribution units for connection to the main console and further distribution units. Connectors mounted on the front of the units are polarised differently to the input connectors on the rear thus preventing the system from being connected incorrectly.

The maximum number of units that may be connected to a console is governed by the output drive capabilities of the console. Most consoles will drive a 600Ω balanced load and would therefore be able to happily drive in excess of 60 units. With the system strapped for unbalanced operation 30 units would present a load of >700Ω. More than adequate for most needs.