Monitoring Controls - PRESONUS StudioLive III Series Owner's Manual

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Monitoring Controls

10.1 Solo Controls
10 Monitoring Controls
10.1 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 opens the Monitor screen on the Touch Display.
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, FlexMixes). Touching any one of these
sources routes it 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
preexisting 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 10.1.1.
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.
• SIP (Solo In Place). This is also known as "destructive solo. " When channels are
soloed in this mode, every channel that isn't soloed will be muted, and only the
soloed channels will be sent to their assigned outputs. While useful in dialing in
dynamics during soundcheck, this mode is dangerous during a live show. We
recommend that this mode be turned off when mixing live events.
Power User Tip: To unsolo all channels, press the Clear button in the Solo control section.
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