VOICING - Rodgers

1 VOICINGTHE PINNACLE OF REALISMEXPERIENCE ELEVATED Download from Read the installation manual FIRST!This describes the function of every menu parameter including the VOICING menus. Reading the manual is extremely important if you are installing and VOICING a 484, which is quite different than the installation and audio setup of our other organ models. Before the proposal is written. Design the speaker layout Emulate a pipe organ divisional layout. Refer to the installation manual for examples. The normal spacing for channel pair speakers is 8-10 feet apart.

2 Direct or reflected sound?oLarge room and/or wet acoustic: aim the speakers directly at the room and/or dry acoustic: reflect the speaker s aim off an adjacentsurface which also favors treble response or small rooms where the listener isclose to the speakers. Location of SW-6 subwoofersoTry to place them along the rear wall of the chamber. Placing them a few feettoward the nave will cause some 16 notes to cancel or that the Pedal and Great share channels 5 & 6 for mids and highsand channels 7 & 8 for lows. The closer the Great FR-1 s are to the subs thebetter as this helps clear up and add definition to sounds in the crossoverrange.

3 Large room? Consider SW-18 builds them to are more efficient and produce lower frequencies than the SW-6 subs. Double 8-channel pairs allow for Dimensional AudiooExample for chamber installations: Mount Swell channel one FR-1 on the backwall facing forward and second channel 1 aimed up at front grill. Reason? a sixfoot distance creates a 2 to 3 millisecond difference creating a depthdimension and heard as more spacious sound. 16-channel main audio (using both 25-pin connectors) can provide a broader, spreadout sound. Consider how a pipe organ would be placed in the room.

4 Secure speaker grill covers, especially the SW-6s, to prevent the risk of aware of the organ s environment and purpose. Before you turn on the organ: observe The room and its acoustics. The Liturgical format and preference of the church. (Individual tastes and preferences may be different. It s important to know what the church wants.) The purpose of the organ. Does the organ primarily support congregational singing? Cantor? Choir? Is a lot of amplification present for the choir, worship team, piano, instruments? If so, the master volume of the organ should be higher.

5 Save time and prevent errors. Be very familiar with navigating the menus Press & release left knob to enter a menu or sub-menu Rotate left knob to navigate (highlight an item) Rotate right knob to change the value Press & release right knob to exit the menus To enter the service menus, hold SET then press both knobs; release all. This allows access to menu #30 and beyond. Power on the console. Test, prevention, caution, and save Test: Menu 60 Audio Test: verify each speaker has a signal. Prevention: Menu 50 System Console: Factory Reset Lock: set and save as [ON].

6 This prevents the user from doing a factory reset in Menu 15, which resets every menu parameter you changed in installation and VOICING ! Lock it now so you don t forget it later. Caution: Audio Menus #40, 41, and 42 (Equalizer, Matrix Mixer, and Sub Woofer Mixer) are audio-map-sensitive. Each value must be set appropriately for the four combinations of MAIN OFF and ANT ON. After making adjustments, remember to SAVE (SET+0) o Each item is saved to SYSTEM except for Menu 31 (Stop VOICING ) which is saved to VOICING . For convenience, you may save to SYSTEM + VOICING , which takes slightly more time.

7 O Performing a system save while you re in one menu will globally save all System parameters. 2 Approach VOICING globally at first. Audio balancing Menu 43 Speaker Setup o Rodgers organs are pre-programmed with several suggested Speaker Setups. Selecting a Speaker Setup sets myriad parameters throughout the service menus. Speaker Setups are simply a quick way to establish a starting point for an installation. After a Speaker Setup is selected, all parameters in the service menus can be altered to customize the organ as dictated by the needs and particularities of each installation.

8 Please refer to your model s Service & Installation Manual for information about its Speaker Setups. Menu 12 Audio Determine Master Volume o Open the Crescendo shoe, or push Full Organ or General 10-12, and play the organ. Decide whether the volume is sufficient for the room. Keep in mind that the sound changes when the room is occupied. Keep in mind if the choir, piano, instrumentalists, praise team, etc. is amplified, the organ will need to be louder vs. an acoustic church service. If the organ bench is in the worst place in the room (typical of US churches), play Demosongs in Menu 1 and walk around the room to listen and judge the proper volume of the organ.

9 If your installation is using both 25-pin connectors for 16 channel main audio: go to Menu 41 Matrix Mixer o Adjust as necessary to each division, SWELL is at 127 only for SWELL and SW 2 is at 127 only for SWELL 2. o In the VOICING menu you will route selected stops (and their VPs) to SW2/GT2/CH2/PD2/SO2 (the second 25-pin connector). You may wish to experiment with the speaker placement and aim for direct or reflective sound. Don t be fooled by RSS. Turn off RSS to hear dry sound as you voice Menu 41 Matrix Mixer for each division, turn the RSS Send to 0.

10 This is the most effective way to turn off RSS. You ll turn RSS back on later. 3 How does the room respond to treble and bass frequencies? Audio equalization Menu 40 Equalizer (audio-map-sensitive) Values are pre-configured based on the selected Speaker Setup. However, further adjustment is recommended according to the room s response. David Lee offers these comments: o We normally reduce the Bass EQ -6 DB for each of the FR-1 channels. o #42 (Sub Woofer Mixer) I increase the Great/Pedal to SWF1 to around 50. I often reduce SW to SWF1 and CH to SWF1 to 0 so the FR-1s have a little more duty, since there is little requirement for 16 fundamental in those divisions, Quintadena, Violone, Bourdon Doux, Faggott etc.