Monitoring Section - Ssl 2+ User Manual

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Monitoring Section

This section describes the controls found the monitoring section. These controls affect what you hear through your monitor speakers
and the headphone outputs.
MONITOR MIX (Top-Right Control)
This control directly affects what you hear coming out of your
monitors and headphones. When the control is set to left-most
position labelled INPUT, you will hear only the sources you
have connected to Channel 1 and Channel 2 directly, without
latency.
If you are recording a stereo input source (e.g. a stereo
keyboard or synth) using Channels 1 and 2, press the
STEREO switch so that you hear it in stereo. If you are only
recording using one Channel (e.g. a vocal recording), make
sure that STEREO is not pressed, otherwise you will hear the
vocal in one ear!
When the MONITOR MIX control is set to the right-most
position labelled USB, you will hear only the audio output
from your computer's USB stream e.g. music playing from
your media player (e.g. iTunes/Spotify/Windows Media Player)
or the outputs of your DAW tracks (Pro Tools, Live, etc).
Positioning the control anywhere in-between INPUT and USB
will give you a variable blend of the two options. This can be
really useful when you need to record with no audible latency.
Please refer to the How-To / Application Examples section
for more information on using this feature.
GREEN USB LED
Illuminates solid green to indicate that the unit is succesfully receiving power over USB.
MONITOR LEVEL (Large Blue Control)
This large blue control directly affects the level sent out of OUTPUTS 1/L and 2/R to your monitors. Turn the knob to make the
volume louder. Please note the MONITOR LEVEL goes to 11 because it's one louder.
PHONES A
This control sets the level for PHONES A headphones output.
PHONES B
This control sets the level for PHONES B headphones output.
3&4 SWITCH (PHONES B)
The switch labelled 3&4 allows you to change what source is feeding the PHONES B headphone output. Without 3&4 engaged,
PHONES B is fed by the same signals feeding PHONES A. This is desirable if you are recording with another person and you
both want to listen to the same material. However, pressing 3&4 will override this and send USB playback stream 3-4 (instead of
1-2) out of the PHONES B headphone output. This can be useful when you are recording another person and they want a different
headphone mix whilst they record. See the How-To / Application Examples section for more information on using this feature.
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