OceanAudio The Ark 500 Series Owner's Manual - page 8
Ark 500 range - Owner’s Manual - Revision 2.2 - page 8
3.4 Connections without patchbay but with modules installed
For this example we’ll install 16x Mic Pres in the Top Rack slots of the Ark 516, 16x EQs in the Lower
Rack slots and 8x compressors in the Monitor Rack slots.
We need to make sure that we once again enable continuity of signal through the console.
The connections are a bit different now.
- Connect ‘Top Rack Outputs 1-8’ to ‘Channel Ext I/P 1-8’
- Connect ‘Channel Insert Sends 1-8’ to ‘Lower Rack Inputs 1-8’
- Connect ‘Lower Rack Outputs 1-8’ to ‘Channel Insert Returns 1-8’
- Do the same for channels 9-16
- Connect ‘Group Insert Sends’ to ‘Monitor Rack Inputs’
- Connect ‘Monitor Rack Outputs’ to ‘Group Insert Returns’
- Connect the supplied factory assembled plug to the 'Mas Ins Send/Ret' connector.
As the ‘Mas Ins Send/Ret’ linking is slightly more complicated due to the fact that the D-Sub connector
on which these functions are located also provides the Master left/right outputs, a factory assembled
plug is provided as a ‘get you started’ facility. This plug is located within the power supply packaging.
In this example, connect your microphones to the Top Rack Inputs.
The outputs of the Mic Pres will go to the Channel External Inputs.
You’ll of course need to select Ext Input on every channel to get signal from your Mic Pres.
The input and output of the EQs are on the insert point of each channel.
This allows you to also use the EQs if you switch to the Line input.
In our example, we also inserted compressors in the Monitor Racks, and connected these to the group
inserts.
By routing the input channels to the group(s) we can use a compressor on any input channel or
combination of channels.
This way, we can also use parallel compression, if we want.
Remember that the group output (after the insert return) is send to the master L/R bus if the Replay
switch on the lower section of the submaster module is depressed (out).
Please check the section on The Ark subgroup module for details.