Monitoring Controls - PRESONUS studiolive III series Owner's Manual

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Monitoring Controls

9.1 Solo Controls
9 Monitoring Controls
9.1 Solo Controls
In addition to the main outputs, your StudioLive mixer features a set of monitor
outputs and a headphone jack, each with its own distinct signal path. While you can
use these outputs to listen to the main mix, you can also assign other signals to them,
such as Aux mixes, the solo bus, or the tape input. This allows easy monitoring of your
choice of signals as you work, while the full mix continues to flow from the main
outputs.
The Monitors control section is where you interact with these outputs. Turn the
Monitor knob to set output level for the monitor outputs. Turn the Phones knob to
set headphone volume. To get into more advanced monitoring settings, press the
Edit button. This causes the Monitor screen to be displayed on the touchscreen.
On this screen, you can choose which signals to send to the monitor and headphone
outputs. Touch the Monitor button to configure signal routing for the monitor outs.
Press the Phones button to do so for the headphone output. In either case, a grid
of available sources is shown (Solo, Main, Tape, Mix 1-16). Touching one or more of
these sources routes them to the currently selected monitoring output.
Power User Tip: When the Solo system is in CR (control room) mode, soloing a channel or
bus causes that signal to be sent to the monitor outputs, temporarily overriding any
pre-existing routings to that output. When solo is disengaged, the routings you've chosen
in the Monitor screen are restored. For more information on Solo Modes, see Section 9.1.
The Delay control allows you to adjust the amount of delay applied to the
headphone and control room output signals. Touch the Delay knob and turn the
Master Control encoder to add delay to either output. This is useful for aligning
the timing of the Front-of-House monitoring signal with the signal coming from
the Front-of-House PA system. The PA sound must traverse the distance from the
speakers to your mix position before you can hear it, so a certain amount of delay
occurs, which can obscure the finer details of your mix when using the monitor
outputs. Adjust this control until the phasing/flamming effects are minimized.
The StudioLive features an independent Solo bus. This feature is
extremely useful in setting levels for monitor mixes, dialing in dynamics
processing on each channel, and fixing issues during a live show without
interrupting the main mix.
The Solo bus has three different modes: AFL (default), PFL, and SIP.
• AFL (After-Fader Listen). AFL sends the channel or subgroup signal to the Solo
bus post-fader so that you can control the level of the soloed signal with the fader.
This is the StudioLive's default setting.
• PFL (Pre-Fader Listen). PFL sends the channel or subgroup signal to the Solo bus
before it reaches the fader so the fader does not affect the soloed signal.
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