2 - Mixer
2In this screen, the physical faders are repre-Above each on-screen fader whose position
sented with side-pointing triangles beside does not correspond to that of the internal vir-
them representing the virtual fader positions.tual fader, there is an arrow pointing either up
or down, depending on whether the physical
fader must be moved up or down to null it.
A fader which is nulled (faders 15+16 in the
screen above) has no triangle above it.
Mute
The MUTE keys for each channel also serve as solo When a channel?s MUTE key is pressed (when solo-
keys (see ?Soloing and toggle? on page 29).ing is not active), the orange indicator lights, and the
sound from that channel is not sent to the stereo bus.
The channel?s recording source is also muted.
Linking channels
Stereo linking provides a way of controlling two An odd-numbered channel can be linked to the even-
channels (usually, but not always, a stereo pair) with numbered channel to its right. In other words, chan-
one set of controls.nels 1 can be linked to channel 2, but to no other
channel (and channel 2 cannot be linked to any chan-
Controls shared by linked channels are:
Fader (the left fader of the pair controls the level nel other than 1).
for both channels) Linking channels is done by pressing and holding
down the SELECT key of one of the pair of channels
EQto be linked, and pressing the other.
Digital pad/gain
Effect send levels and pre/post positionUnlinking channels is done by pressing the SELECT
key of one of the linked pair (both keys flash) and
SELECT keyspressing the other.
Record arming, muting and soloing are carried out
separately for each linked pair.NOTE
It is also possible to link two inputs together in the
Pan and phase are linked, but these can be changed same way so that the EQ, etc. for each input is con-
independently after linking.trolled in common.
Stereo bus
The stereo bus may be thought of as a special perma-and is also as the source for mastering and rendering
nently-linked pair of channels.the final mix (see ?Recorder? on page 36).
The output from this bus can be monitored as the At the final mastering stage, it is possible to add
STEREO selection (see ?Monitoring? on page 27) equalization and dynamics to the stereo bus.
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