Ecler EVO4 Bedienungsanleitung

USER MANUAL

LIST OF CONTENTS

1. IMPORTANT REMARK 04

2. INTRODUCTION 05

3. INSTALLATION 05

4. QUICK START 08

5. OPERATION AND USAGE 10

6. DRIVERS INSTALLATION 12

7. EFFECTS PROCESSORS 13

8. MIDI CONTROLLERS 19

9. SETTINGS MENU 21

10. FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS 23

11. TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS 24

12. CONFIGURATION DIAGRAM 25

13. FUNCTION LIST 26

14. FUNCTION DIAGRAM 27

15. BLOCK DIAGRAM 28

All numbers subject to variation due to production tolerances. ECLER S.A. reserves the right to make changes or

improvements in manufacturing or design which may affect specifications.

1. IMPORTANT REMARK

Safety Instructions

In order to get the optimum operation and efficiency from your mixing unit, it is VERY IMPORTANT - before you

plug anything - to read this manual very carefully and take seriously into account all considerations specified within

it. We strongly recommend that its maintenance be carried out by our Authorised Technical Services.

This apparatus must be earthed through its mains cable.

Do not expose the unit to rain or water splashes, and do not place liquid containers or incandescent

objects like candles on top of the unit. Do not obstruct the ventilation shafts with any kind of material.

Any change in the configuration of the unit must be carried out by a qualified technician. Should any

connection / disconnection task be done, always disconnect the unit from the mains supply.

Warranty Descriptions

Your ECLER equipment has undergone exhaustive laboratory and quality control tests before leaving the factory.

Nevertheless, your may be in need of our Technical Service during the period covered by the Guarantee or

afterwards. In that case, carefully protect your equipment in its original packet and send it to our Technical Service

with the transport and insurance paid. Attach a photocopy of your Guarantee Certificate and a detailed description

of the defect you have observed.

ECLER S.A. guarantees the EVO4 mixer against material defects and manufacturing faults for the period of one

year, starting from the original purchase date.

ECLER, S.A., will repair the defective equipment within the aforementioned period, with no charge for parts and

labour.

To ensure the validity of the Guarantee, it is essential that the attached Guarantee, Registration Card is filled out

correctly and remitted to your ECLER distributor, within 10 DAYS after date of purchase.

The Guarantee is non-transferrable and protects the original buyer only.

The Guarantee does not cover:

Damages caused by mistreatment or negligent handling, lack of elementary precautions, disregard to the

instructions in the manual, faulty connection or accidents.

ECLER, S.A., will not be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage, loss or other damage originated by or

relating to the set.

* sets that have been manipulated, altered or repaired other than at the authorized Technical Service centers.

* the exterior fittings and electro-mechanical parts, nor their wear due to use.

* shipping and insurance expenses, nor for damages the set may incur during its transport.

This Guaranteed is valid only for repairs or services carried out at an authorized Technical Service Center.

A note regarding the LCD screens:

Our liquid crystal displays are manufactured with high-precision technology; however, different screens frequently

exhibit slight variances in the hue and brightness of their background lighting. This is not a malfunction.

Formaterat

2. INTRODUCTION

Congratulations for acquiring a genuine, professional ECLER device! The EVO4 is the latest design from ECLER, a

legendary company from Barcelona with over 42 years of experience in designing and manufacturing professional

audio equipment.

With its top-of-the-line 96 kHz 24 bit digital audio, assignable MIDI controller, and two fully independent effects

processors, the EVO4 is the perfect tool for professional club DJs.

This genuine mixer uses the best available components and 24 bit 96kHz A/D and D/A converters in order to obtain

the best sound quality. Due to the over 40 years of experience in designing professional audio equipment, the

circuits are very efficient and the digital sound has the same warmness as any analogue device. All circuits are

manufactured and tested in our factory in Barcelona.

The EVO4 has two effect processors with 18 effects each in crystal clear 96 kHz 24 bit audio. These effect

modules, EFFECTS 1 and EFFECTS 2, are fully independent and can be assigned to the same or different

channels to chain up the effects. Both modules also include the innovative LOOP SAMPLER effect that makes it

easy for you to record and play back 1/8 to 8-beat loops in real time.

The EVO4 includes 29 MIDI controllers that can be assigned to the functions of your favourite software application.

For increased flexibility, the channels can be set to work independently as AUDIO controllers (PHONO, LINE or

MICRO) or as MIDI controllers. The top part of the mixer also has four encoder knobs/push buttons that work

exclusively as MIDI controllers.

The fact that the EVO4 lets you work with two separate effect boards and use MIDI to control your favourite

software application makes it the ideal mixer for today’s professional DJs.

3. INSTALLATION

The first thing to take into consideration when placing your EVO4 is your comfort and an easy access to all the

connections.

The EVO4 is basically conceived as a tabletop mixer and its usual placement

will be between two vinyls or CD players. The mixer has a 14.57’’ (37cm) depth

and 12.6’’ (32cm) width format.

The optional metallic side profiles kit allows you to firmly fix your mixer to the

surface over which it is placed or over its own profiles (Fig.). These profiles

also allow to tilt the mixer's position for an easier operation. There is another

metal brackets option ('NUORAKI') that allows the mixer mounting in a

standard 19" rack.

Because of the high gain of the PHONO and MICROPHONE inputs, always try to place the mixer as far away as

possible from noise sources (dimmers, engines, etc.) and mains wires. For the very same reason, and under any

circumstance, you should never remove the unit's metallic cover.

The power consumption of the EVO4 is very low, so they do not need any cooling, but you should avoid extreme

temperatures and the atmosphere should be as dry and dust free as possible.

The EVO4 operates now with a new universal input power supply “Switching Power Supply” and can perfectly

works without any internal modification from 90V to 264V –47 to 63Hz. Make sure that the mains-wire is far away

from the signal-cables in order to avoid any possible audio hum.

In order to protect the unit from an eventual electrical overload it carries a T 0.5 A fuse. Should it ever blow up,

unplug the unit from mains and replace it with an identical one. If the new fuse blows again contact immediately

with our authorized technical service.

ATTENTION: NEVER SHORT-CIRCUIT THE SECURITY PATH NOR USE A HIGHER VALUE FUSE.

CAUTION: Fuse substitutions have to be performed by a qualified technician.

3.1. Audio input connections

PHONO 1 Turntable

LINE 1 CD Deck

PHONO 2 Turntable

LINE 2 CD Deck

PHONO 3 Turntable

LINE 3 CD Deck

MICRO 4 Microphone

LINE 4 CD Deck

Phono Inputs

Phono Turntables must be fitted with a magnetic cartridge with nominal output level between -60dBV and -20dBV

(1 to 100mV). The PHONO inputs (38) of the EVO4 have a high headroom (margin before saturation) and it can

handle higher output cartridges than what is usual. These inputs are supplied with a nominal input sensitivity of

-40dBV (10mV).

Line Inputs

The sensitivity of the inputs marked as LINE (39) is 0dBV (1V). You can connect sound sources such as CD, DAT

or MP3 players, as well as keyboards and other instruments.

Microphone Input

The MICRO input (40) are prepared for a nominal input level of -40dBV. The connector combine both, JACK and

XLR3, formats. With the TRIM controller it is possible to adjust the input sensitivity between -30 and -50dBV. These

microphone inputs are prepared for balanced signals, which have to be connected as follows:

Hot or direct signal > Pin 2 Tip

Cold or inverted signal > Pin 3 Ring

Ground > Pin 1 Sleeve

Microphones must have low impedance (200 to 600 and must be mono. For unbalanced connections, it is

necessary to short-circuit pin 3 to ground or the central ring. The EVO4 equips an 18V phantom power supply for

condenser microphones. An internal soldering jumper allows enabling/disabling the phantom power. The EVO4’s

MICRO channel is delivered from factory with enabled phantom power. See configuration diagram.

3.2. Audio outputs connections

OUT 1 Main power amplifier

OUT 2 Booth/Room 2 power amplifier

REC Recording device

FX SEND/RETURN External effect device (Input and Output)

REC posterior Recording device 2

Headphones Headphones

OUT 1

These stereo output connectors feeds to the PA system through balanced XLR3 or unbalanced RCA connectors.

The nominal output level for OUT 1 (45, 46, 47) comes standard at 0 dBV (1 V) but internal solder bridges may be

used to set it to +6 dBV. The output volume of OUT 1 can be regulated using the OUT 1 potentiometer (31).

The L+R switch (25) adds up the left and right signals from the OUT 1 and OUT 2 outputs. This function is

especially useful if there is a malfunction in one of the channels during a session (e.g. turntable needle does not

contact properly). When this switch is activated, the mixer sends the sum of L+R signals to both speakers, which

prevents most of the audience from noticing the malfunction.

OUT 1 and OUT 2 are equipped with a balance controller, BAL (26).

OUT 2

This output is usually used for independent output from the DJ booth. This stereo output, OUT 2 (48), is equipped

with unbalanced RCA connectors, and its nominal output level comes standard at 0 dBV (1 V), though internal

solder bridges may be used to set it to +6 dBV. The output level of OUT 2 can be regulated using the OUT 2

potentiometer (30).

Recording output

There is a REC output (44), which uses RCA connectors, on the back panel. The nominal output level for REC is

0 dBV (1 V).

FX Send/Return effects loop

The RCA connectors on the FX SEND output (42) and the FX RETURN input (43) allow creating a signal loop for

external effects processors, samplers or sequencers. The nominal level for the SEND output, as well as for the

RETURN input, is 0dBV (1V).

Headphones

In order to obtain an optimal performance during their operation, the headphones should have high impedance

(200-600 Headphones are connected to the headphones output (36) located on the controllers plate. A

normalized ¼’’ stereo jack or 3,5mm mini-jack is provided for this connection. The sleeve is ground, the ring is the

right channel and the tip the left channel.

3.3. Digital connections

MIDI OUT

MIDI (Musical Instruments Digital Interface) is a standard communications protocol used for electronic musical

instrument-to-computer connections. MIDI devices may act as a master (controller) or slave (controlled) devices.

The EVO4 works as a master unit, meaning that it can control other electronic musical instruments (synthesizers,

sequencers, rhythm boxes, software and even light controllers). With the EVO4, MIDI CLOCK signals may also be

sent if this option has been enabled. A standard DIN 5 (180º) connector pin is used to establish a MIDI OUT

connection.

USB port

The EVO4 includes a USB-MIDI interface that allows you to send MIDI signals from the mixer to a computer via

USB.

You can also use the USB port to update the equipment’s firmware.

4. QUICK START

For the following procedure you will need a CD player and headphones.

1. Set the controllers to their initial position

Set the rotary controllers GAIN, HI, MID and LOW from channel 1 (17, 18, 19, 20) to the central snap-in position.

Put the channel fader (23) down and move the A/OFF/B switch (22) to position A (this channel is now assigned to

the crossfaders' A side).

2. Connect the headphones

Connect your headphones to one of the outputs on the mixer's front

panel (36). Set the MONITOR LEVEL (35) to minimum and move the

MONITOR SELECT control (34) to the PFL position.

3. Connect a CD player

Connect a CD player to LINE input on channel 1 (39), insert a CD and

play the CD.

4. Connect the mixer's power cable

Connect the power cable to power source input (54) on the mixer's back

side and turn the mixer on by pressing the MAINS INPUT switch (52).

5. Select the input source

Make sure that the input source selector on channel 1 (13) is in LINE

position and that the channel's VU-meter (16) lightens up. If this does

not happen make sure that CD player is correctly connected and that

there is an audio track being played back.

6. Adjust the input level

Turn the GAIN control (17) until the VU-meter shows 0dB. Each

channel's red overload LED OVL (14), lightens up if the input level for

this channel is to high and has to be diminished with the channel's GAIN

controller.

7. Send the signal to the main output

Set the fader on channel 1 (23) to maximum and place the crossfader

(24) on side A.

8. Listen to the signal with your headphones

Press the PFL button (21) on channel 1. Adjust the MONITOR LEVEL

controller (35) to obtain a comfortable monitoring volume. Now you

should hear music with your headphones. Turn the MONITOR SELECT

controller (34) to the right to crossfade the PFL signal and the MIX

signal. When this controller is completely turned to the right, only the

MIX signal will be monitored.

9. Try the operation of the tone controllers

Experiment with this powerful 3-way stereo equaliser (18, 19, 20). This

tone control has been designed for a creative sound edition: each way

can be individually isolated using the big and ergonomic rotary

controllers.

10. Check the adjustment of the crossfader

Each channel can be assigned to the crossfader using the A/OFF/B selector switch. The crossfader allows you to

melt the signals that are assigned to both of its sides. With this selector in position A or B, you assign the channel

to one of both sides of the crossfader. The OFF position disables the crossfader's function on this channel.

11. Adjust the crossfader curve

The XFADER SHAPE controller (33) allows a fine adjustment of the crossfader curve's slope. Setting this controller

all left, the signal is diminished when the crossfader reaches the central position, which allows mixing two songs

with a soft melting. The crossfader curve's slope increases if the controller is turned to the right. When is gets

completely turned to the right, the signal enters very fast with hardly a movement of the crossfader. This is very

useful for scratching.

12. Select an effect "EFFECTS 1"

The EVO4 includes two fully independent effect processors, EFFECTS 1 and EFFECTS 2.

Both work the same way and contain the same number of effects. The processors may be

assigned to the same or different channels. Start out by playing an effect using the

EFFECTS 1 processor, located to the left of channel 1 on the mixer. To assign the

EFFECTS 1 processor to channel 1, turn the INPUT encoder (6) and press it when

CHANNEL 1 appears on the screen. To select an effect, turn the EFFECT encoder (7) and

select the desired effect by pressing the encoder when it appears on the screen.

13. Enable an effect "EFFECTS 1"

Press the LAUNCH button (12) and move the EFFECTS 1 processor DRY/WET crossfader

(11) to fuse the original (DRY) signal with the processed (WET) signal. If you would like to

monitor the effects signal, press FX PFL (10).

14. Adjust an effect "EFFECTS 1"

Move the PARAM 1 (8) and PARAM (9) controllers to adjust the sound of the effect. The

parameters you are adjusting will appear on the screen.

15. Select an effect "EFFECTS 2"

The EFFECTS 2 processor is located to the right of channel 4 on the mixer. To assign the

EFFECTS 2 processor to channel 1, turn the INPUT encoder and press it when CHANNEL

1 appears on the screen. To select an effect, turn the EFFECT encoder and select the

desired effect by pressing the encoder when it appears on the screen.

16. Enable an effect "EFFECTS 2"

Press the LAUNCH button and move the EFFECTS 2 processor DRY/WET crossfader to

fuse the original (DRY) signal with the processed (WET) signal. If you would like to monitor

the effects signal, press FX PFL.

17. Adjust an effect "EFFECTS 2"

Move the PARAM 1 and PARAM 2 controllers to adjust the sound of the effect. The

parameters you are adjusting will appear on the screen.

5. OPERATION AND USAGE

5.1. Start-up

To start up the mixer, press the switch (52) on the back panel. The two BPM LEDs will light up. “EVO4 ECLER” will

appear on the EFFECTS 2 screen and “LOADING” on the EFFECTS 1 screen.

All of the major output on the EVO4 are equipped with automatic mute circuits, which are activated whenever the

mixer is powered up or down.

Thanks to these circuits, the introduced noise due to turning the EVO4 on or off is the lowest possible. However it

is strongly recommended to turn on all the devices in the following order:

1. Sound sources.

2. Mixer, equalizers, active filters.

3. Finally, power amplifiers.

Powering off should be done by following the exact reverse sequence in order to avoid any possible damage to the

loudspeakers.

5.2. Control Description

5.2.1. Input selector

Channels 1-4 have a titling input source selector (13), allowing users to assign each channel to a turntable

(PHONO), a CD player or similar device (LINE) or a microphone (MICRO), respectively. This same selector can

also be used to put the channel in MIDI mode.

5.2.2. Channel GAIN

All the EVO4 input channels have an accessible input sensitivity GAIN control (17). The GAIN controls adjust the

input level of each channel in order to compensate the different sources connected to the mixer. The gain

adjustments have to be executed with extreme care using the VU-meters (16) and the OVL (14) as reference.

The standard reference level used to mix audio signals is 0dB. To obtain an optimal mix adjust the input level so

that the value shown on the VU-meter stays always close to 0dB and make sure you never reach the clipping level,

using the red LED’s from the VU-meter and the OVL indicator from each channel as reference.

5.2.3. Equalization

The rotary tone controls for each channels provide a +10/-30dB boost/cut at high (18) and low frequencies (20) and

+10/-25dB at the mid range (19). This great attenuation range is specially designed for creative live performance.

ATTENTION: Use equalization carefully, by boosting too much the low frequency range, you can induce an

excessive displacement of the speakers membrane.

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