Vca Group Operation; Vca Master Level At Setup - SoundCraft Vi3000 User Manual

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VCA Groups configuration is started by pressing the MUTE & VCA GROUPS [SETUP] button. When you press a VCA
Master [SOLO/SEL] button you can assign channels to that VCA group with their individual [SOLO/SEL] buttons, and
also access VCA group options - including labelling - in the Master Bay Vistonics. See below for more information.
You can select EITHER output chanels OR input channels to be part of a normal VCA group.
In order to assign VCAs, the VCA masters [SOLO/SEL] buttons have to be made available by selecting the appropri-
ate Master Bay Fader Pages layer - [VCA] for VCA masters 1-8, or [E] for VCA masters 9-16.

VCA Master level at setup

The assignment of VCAs should be done with the channel or group faders and the VCA master, to which assignment
is being made, being at or near a nominal operating level. That is, don't assign a VCA master to a channel or group if
the VCA master is at -40dB while the channel or group is at 0dB. There are 0dB buttons for VCA masters avilable in
VCA group configuration mode.
VCA And 'E'
Buttons
Fader Pages buttons for
mapping VCAs to the
Master Bay faders.
VCA Masters
[ON] Buttons
Master On/Off button for
all of the VCA's member
channels.
VCA Group
Fader
An offset dB level for
all channels that are
members of the VCA
Group.
VCA Master
Solo/Sel
A master Solo button for
all of the VCA's member
channels.
9.2
Vi3000 USER MANUAL

VCA Group Operation

The [VCA] button maps VCA masters 1-8 to the eight
Master Bay faders. The [E] button maps VCA masters
9-16 to the eight Master Bay faders.
If a channel that was previously on is turned off by the
action of a VCA Master [ON]/Off button, the channel's
[ON] button will illuminate in red to distinguish this condi-
tion from a manually 'off' channel.
The VCA Master On/Off switch itself has only 2 states,
and always illuminates red when off, and green when on.
• When a VCA master fader is moved, the contributing
channel fader levels remain unchanged. • If a channel is
assigned to more than one VCA Group, the resultant off-
set applied to the channel is calculated as the arithmetic
sum of the dB values of each VCA Master.
• Any VCA master fader reaching –infinity dB (fader at
lowet position) will set all member channels to –infinity
dB, regardless of other Master fader settings.
• The maximum gain applied to a member channel as the
result of the channel fader setting plus offsets from VCA
Master faders is limited to +10dB.
9.2: MUTE & VCA GRPS > VCA GROUPS
9.2 MUTE & VCA GRPS > VCA GROUPS
Inactive
All VCA
Members
OFF
Inactive
Normal
Active
Select VCA
Range
Active
All VCA Mem-
bers ON
Low Range
-infinity
Active
Soloed