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    1 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Declaration of conformity ec - declaration of conformity ce m arking we, the manufacturer sabine, inc. 13301 nw us highway 441 alachua, florida usa declare that the product receiver sabine model swm7000 ...

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    2 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Table of contents this operating guide written for receivers using sabine swm7000 remote control software version 2.0 and above. 9. De-esser 31 9.1. De-mystifying de-essers 31 9.2. The sabine de-esser 31 9.3. Using the de-esser 31 10. Pr...

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    3 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 1. Introduction congratulations on purchasing a sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum true mobility™ wireless system. True mobility™ wireless systems give you all the built-in processing you need on every microp...

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    4 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Product views ch. A channel select, contrast ch. B channel select, contrast fig. 2b - sw71-r one-channel receiver fig. 2a - sw72-ndr & sw72-r two-channel receivers antenna 1 front mount ch. A display antenna 2 front mount power ch. B dis...

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    5 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Product views product views fig. 2h - swc70cl - sw70-h13, sw70-h15 & sw70-h19 mic clip with built-in charger fig. 2i - sw75-t beltpack transmitter 2.3. Components receivers sw72-ndr: 2-ch. Receiver w/net...

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    6 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 3. Quick setups 3.1. Receiver & transmitter quick setup please read section four transmitter operation and section five receiver operation for a complete understanding of how to set up your sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum true mobility tm ...

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    7 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 6 gain adjustment settings 1. Transmitter (pad adjustment). Adjust the transmitter pad setting if last segment of the transmitter or receiver audio level meter lights up often, or remains on when mic or ...

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    8 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Fig. 3d - fbx: setup fig. 3e - setup indicator flashing quick setups 3.2. Fbx quick setup place microphone and speakers in primary position. 1 2 press and hold the setup button (fig. 3d) on the receiver until the lcd setup indicator (fig...

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    9 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Quick setups vocal settings ratio a soft voice could be set to 2:1, whereas a loud voice might require a ratio setting of 6:1. Thresh the higher the threshold setting, the more signal is required to init...

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    10 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Quick setups 3.3. Tips for good rf performance • it is best to keep the system’s channels close together at the low or high end of the spectrum, i.E. Channels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or channels 65, 66, 67, 68. If there is another 2.4 ghz source ...

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    11 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. • 2.4 ghz cordless phones: these home telephones broadcast at very low power and should not present interference problems for your sabine wireless. This is especially true if the telephone uses spread s...

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    12 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Select d ow n u p o n /off o n /m ut e o n /on 4. Transmitter operation 4.1. First step before you begin, let’s look at a few basics regarding your transmitters. The handheld mic is ready to go — the microphone and transmitter are com- ...

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    13 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 4.2.2. Accessing transmitter controls control of all your transmitter functions is made using the select button and the up/down buttons. These control buttons are located inside the access compartment o...

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    14 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 4.2.3. Adjusting transmitter settings default/channel: press the select button to enter edit mode, and repeat until the channel indicator flashes. In this mode, the up/down buttons will adjust transmission channel (1-70 available). Inpu...

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    15 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 1. On/off. In internal position #1, the external switch acts as a typical on/ off switch. Use this setting if you trust the microphone user to switch the microphone on and off as needed, and/or wish to ...

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    16 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Sabine rechargeable battery advantages. Here are several more good reasons why you can feel more confident about using rechargeable batteries: 1. All transmitters report two types of battery status information. The first report is the a...

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    17 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 4.2.4.2. Charging your batteries equipment connections. Each sw75t or sw70h1 transmitter comes equipped with an swc-powr tireless wireless™ plug-in charger (see fig. 4l). In addition, each sw70h1 comes ...

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    18 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 5. Receiver operation 5.1. Lcd display. The receiver lcd display is shown below (fig. 5b). Two-channel receivers feature two lcds, one for each channel. The display provides a snapshot report of the condition of your wireless channel, i...

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    19 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Receiver operation diversity status: either 1 or 2 is lit, showing the active antenna. Rf signal strength indicator: indicates presence of rf (from transmitter, or external sources) on the chosen recept...

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    20 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Receiver operation fig. 5d tweek-n-peek example edit will light in the channel display of the channel being edited. Fig. 5c sabine tweek-n-peek 5.2. Parameter control & lcd display 5.2.1. One set of controls for 1 or 2 channels whether ...

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    21 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Receiver operation fig. 5f 5.2.3. Special lcd display messages. In addition to the status and programmable information discussed above, the text lines of the lcd settings display may also (under certain...

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    22 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 5.5.2. Controlling the receiver in channel mixing mode all functions are individually controllable for each channel when in channel mix mode, except the output level, which is shared. Normally the active channel for control is displayed...

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    23 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Transmitter to receiver, expands and focuses antenna sensitivity, and al- lows antenna and receiver to be positioned further apart or in separate rooms. 2. Decide on front or rear panel antenna mounting...

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    24 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Fig. 6a 6. Mic supermodeling™ 6.1. Introduction microphones come in a dazzling variety of shapes, sizes, polar patterns, fre- quency response curves, phase response curves, etc. Few things arouse as much passion amongst audio engineers ...

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    25 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. There are no modeling settings for lavalier or headset microphones — mic placement makes these an unrealistic choice for modeling. Note: other lavalier microphones can be used with the sabine beltpack t...

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    26 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Fbx feedback exterminator fbx setup note lcd “ready” flashing as you get close to the end of the setup procedure, ready will begin to flash on the lcd. Stop raising the gain! The fbx will now go into ready mode. 7. Fbx feedback extermin...

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    27 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Fbx feedback exterminator fig. 7c: ready button tech tip ready & locked fixed ready = lock fixed on other sabine fbx products fully, and your mixer meters show little movement when signal passes through...

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    28 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 8. Compressor/limiter operation 8.1. Basics of compression the dynamic range (how loud we can hear to how quiet a sound we can detect) of the human ear is far greater than the capability of sound systems to repro- duce. Although some of...

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    29 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Compressor limiter gain: (output level) since the output gain is attenuated whenever the input gain exceeds the compression threshold, the overall output level of a compressed signal will be reduced. Co...

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    30 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 8.4. Possible compression trouble areas like any signal processing, compression can be misused, and improper application may cause undesirable side effects in the audio signal. Some of these problems include: 1. Noise. If the threshold ...

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    31 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 9. De-esser 9.1. De-mystifying de-essers certain consonant sounds produced by the human voice contain more energy than others, and have the potential to overload a microphone capsule. This can produce a...

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    32 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Fig. 10e: program preset loaded 10. Program save & recall most wireless microphone systems provide control of one or two settings (rf channel and maybe gain). With so little to remember, the ability to save and recall system settings ha...

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    33 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 11. Multiple systems operation 11.1. Overview in many circumstances a single wireless microphone system is all that will be in use at any one time. Larger applications (church, concert hall, theater sta...

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    34 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. The antenna inputs of 6 receivers. A combination of 2-channel receivers (sw72-r or sw72-ndr), a set (2 pieces) of swass-ext-2, and one swa6ss, would reduce the antenna clutter of 12 transmission chan- nels to a single pair of extension ...

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    35 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 11.3. Antenna distribution amplifier connection multiple systems operation fig. 12a: swa6ss antenna distribution amp back panel to extension antennas antenna 1 rf output 2 rf output 1 swa6ss antenna dis...

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    36 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 12. Extension antennas 12.1. Overview sabine’s swm7000 series receivers are designed for easy interface with sabine’s swa-ssext-2 extension antenna kit (figure 12b). This triangular, attractive wood-grained unit is designed to mount eas...

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    37 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 1. Antenna repositioning. Provides solutions when receiver placement op- tions are limited or challenging. Sabine’s extension antenna’s multiple mounting options allow higher placement (wall mount or mi...

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    38 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 13. Remote control operation 13.1. Overview in many circumstances you will adjust and control your sabine swm7000 wireless microphone system using the front panel controls, as outlined in previous sections of this operating guide. In ci...

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    39 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. • rf scan and report, which measures strength for each of the 70 trans- mission channels, and displays a hierarchical ordering of the clearest, strongest channels to use during system setup and operatio...

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    40 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 13.1.3. Software multiple unit control the true extent of the power of the swm remote software is realized when it is used to control multiple wireless receivers. When nd-series receivers are connected in a network, the additional contr...

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    41 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 3. Important: set dip switch #7 on the back of the first receiver to the “off” (down) position (default). Set dip switch #7 on all other networked receivers to the “on” (up) position. 4. When all cable ...

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    42 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 13.4. Remote control operation 13.4.1. Two views, two sets of controls the default main screen ap- pears as shown in figure 13c. The top portion of the screen (above the “active channels” bar and two arrow buttons) is the command view, ...

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    43 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 13.4.2.1. Fbx settings (f4) allows global settings of fbx filter width and maximum allowed fbx filter depth. As filters are set, they will conform to the global width chosen at the time of setting. It i...

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    44 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 13.4.2.5. Rf scan (f6) use the rf scan to get a “picture” of the potential rf interference in your location. You should perform a scan before every program so you can see the ambient rf levels on all 70 channels of your system. Caution:...

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    45 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Fig. 13l copy parameters window fig. 13m reset parameters window remote control operation warning: before disconnecting receiver from computer quit all swm7000 software functions and close software befo...

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    46 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 14. Tips & troubleshooting 14.1. Tips for maximum performance • keep a clear and unobstructed path between transmitter and receiver. • position receiver antennas at least one meter off the performance floor level. • avoid placing receiv...

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    47 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 14.3. Common sources of rf interference the typical sources of interference for conventional wireless mics can be high- powered broadcasters such as radio stations and tv transmitters, or other short-ra...

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    48 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 2. Wireless local area networks (wlans) these computer network devices allow computers to connect via wire- less devices that act as both receivers and transmitters. These low- powered transceivers often have selectable channels and can...

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    49 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 15. Fbx theory & practice 15.1. Introduction to fbx® why fbx? Feedback is certainly the most pervasive challenge to the audio industry. The potential appearance of sudden, loud, out-of-control feedback ...

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    50 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Nate feedback. A graphic equalizer would need more than 10,000 narrow- band sliders to be as precise and powerful as your fbx. As an example of the power of fbx, figure 15b shows test results measured with a pa set up consisting of a mi...

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    51 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. 15.3.1. The fbx & true mobility® advantage after inventing fbx technology and refining it for over a decade, sabine has brought our patented automatic feed- back control to its fullest realization with ...

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    52 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. 14.3.2.3. Balancing fixed & dynamic filters each channel of your swm7000 wireless receiver offers a total of 10 fbx filters (combined fixed and dynamic), which can be used as needed to exterminate feedback. After years of experience and...

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    53 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Appendices 15. Appendices appendix a: beltpack connector wiring diagrams fig. A2 - 2-conductor electret wiring diagram to extension antennas appendix b: antenna system diagrams swa6ss antenna distributi...

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    54 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Appendices sw70 series receivers, 1- or 2-channel carrier frequency range: ism band 2400 - 2483.5 mhz frequencies: 70 pre-programmed oscillation mode: pll synthesized receiving mode: true diversity sensitivity: 6 dbv at s/n over 70 db i...

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    55 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Appendix d: dip switch settings channel center number frequency 1 2400.840000 2 2401.633469 3 2403.220408 4 2404.013878 5 2405.600816 6 2406.394286 7 2407.981224 8 2408.774694 9 2410.361633 10 2411.1551...

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    56 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Appendix f: battery endurance tests (typical) appendices nimh aa battery (swbc1, typical) nimh c battery (swaa2, typical) appendix g: changing mic capsules (sw70-h) sabine's mic supermodeling™ function requires a baseline characteristic...

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    57 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Warning! This equipment must be earthed. Caution! Risk of electric shock. Do not open. Caution! Shock hazard. Do not remove covers. No user serviceable parts inside. Refer servicing to qualified service...

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    58 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless © 2007 sabine, inc. Provide the necessary warranty service, you will be directed to the nearest other sabine authorized dealer which can provide such service. Or: b. Ship the defective item, prepaid, to: sabine, inc. 13301 nw us highway 441 alachua, fl 326...

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    59 sabine 2.4 ghz smart spectrum ® wireless lit-swm7000-og-en-070615.Pmd - rr © 2007 sabine, inc. Index index a antenna placement 22 attack (compressor) 9, 28 audio level meter (lcd) 7, 13, 19 audix mic capsules (om3 & om5) 5, 56 b bass guitar settings 9 battery charging (first time) 16 battery char...

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    Sabine, inc. 13301 nw us highway 441 alachua, florida 32615-8544 usa phone: (386) 418-2000 fax: (386) 418-2001 www.Sabine.Com.