How to use the Wendt Portable Location Mixer

• Turn Power to INT (Internal), remember to turn off when not using in order to save batteries.
• Press "batt test". If VU meter reads -9 the batteries will soon need charging.

Input Panel:

• Select a Channel
• Is it a mic? if Yes select mic, if No select Line
• Does the Mic need power? If Yes choose 48P, If No choose den (Dynamic)
• Set VU LED to LO, High will drain batteries quicker.
• Turn Limiter ON, will help stop distorting when signal becomes too loud.
• Make sure headphones knob is turned up and headphones plugged in.

Output Panel:

• The output of the mixer must match the input of the recorder.
• Marantz PMD660 - select MIC if recording through a XLR cable
• Camera is best to set the mixer to live and the cameras input to line.

Setting Levels:

• on the front panel you can tune the sound with the knob. sound should be between -9 and -3 when the knob is between 10 and 3 o'clock.
• If seems too loud switch the 0 20 100 switch on to input panel onto 10. This will reduce the the sound by 10 decibels.
• The 140 20 100 switch filters out low frequency 
• set to 100 for voice recordings 
• set to 0 for full recordings

Other Swithes:

• Rtn/Mix switch changes between being able to records and listen back to pre-recorded clips
• LT RT Stereo allows the headphones to monitor both channels (stereo) or just the left or right channel
• L Pan R if in centre this will send the signal to both left and right outputs, if recording 2 voices then pan on elect and pan one right to keep separate.