Using Vsl To Create A; Monitor Mix - PRESONUS AudioBox 22VSL Owner's Manual

4 Software: Virtual StudioLive and Studio One Artist
4.1 Virtual Studio Live
Using VSL to Create a Monitor Mix
4.1.6
STEP 1 Creating a Mix for the Main and Headphone Outputs
Power User Tip: Raising a channel's volume is not always the best way to make
it louder in the mix. By adjusting the pan position or adding some EQ, you can
raise the perceived loudness of the channel without touching the fader.
STEP 2 Creating a Mix for Outputs 3 and 4 (AudioBox 44VSL Only)
STEP 3 Adding Fat Channel Dynamics
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Virtual StudioLive allows you create a monitor mix with the same sound
quality and exibility you'd get from a StudioLive 16.0.2 digital mixer. By
adding Fat Channel dynamics processing and EQ, reverbs, and delays
to your monitor mix, you can enhance the quality of the performer's
recording experience and, by extension, the quality of their performance.
A monitor mix is a dedicated mix that is usually routed to a performer's
headphones. This mix is separate from the mix that is recorded.
It allows you, as the engineer, to leave your recording mix intact,
while providing the artist with the mix that they need to achieve
their best performance, saving hours of retakes and frustration.
Using VSL to create a mix for your Main and Headphone outputs
is like using a mixer. Raise the fader for each channel to raise its
volume in the mix and use the pan control to adjust the source
signal's position in the stereo eld. To adjust the overall mix
level, raise or lower the Main fader in VSL or use the Main and
Phones knobs on the front of your AudioBox 22/44VSL.
The AudioBox 44VSL also allows you to create a separate mix for
Outputs 3 and 4. This done by using channel sends that enable you
to set the levels for each channel that is routed to a speci c output
bus—in this case, Output 3 or Output 4. For any given channel,
you can create one mix for your Main, Headphone, and Line 1
and 2 outputs and create an entirely mix for Outputs 3 and 4.
It is important to mention that Outputs 3 and 4 are stereo-
linked, so you will have one send level for each channel to both
Outputs 3 and 4 simultaneously. The Output 3 send slider sets
the level for each channel, while the Output 4 send slider is the
pan control for each channel that's routed to Outputs 3 and 4.
The AudioBox 22/44VSL provides a Fat Channel to process each input and
DAW channel, the two e ects buses, and the analog outputs in VSL. Each
Fat Channel consists of a Downward Expander, a Compressor, a 3-band
semi-parametric EQ and a Limiter. For more information on how these
dynamics processors e ect audio, please review Sections 5.2 and 5.3.
The Overview tab in VSL provides microviews of the Gate,
Compressor, and Limiter. To make changes to one of these
processors, double-click on its Microview. This will open the Fat
Channel tab and focus on the chosen dynamics processor.
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