Monitor Bus Controls; Creating Monitor Mixes - PRESONUS StudioLive ARc Series Owner's Manual

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3.4 Aux Buses

3.4.1 Monitor Bus Controls

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3.4.2 Creating Monitor Mixes

1. AFL button. This button will solo the aux bus to the aux outputs after the fader.
Power User Tip: Using this control to listen in on a performer's monitor
mix can be a great way to quickly dial in just the right amount of
each signal and get to a great monitor mix more quickly.
2. Mute button. This button will mute or unmute its aux bus. The LED to
the left of it will illuminate red when the aux bus output is muted.
Power User Tip: Muting an aux bus output during performance breaks is a
quick and easy way to prevent accidental signal spikes or feedback.
3. Output level. Adjusts the master level of the aux output.
Creating custom monitor mixes is critical. If musicians can't hear themselves or their
bandmates, their performances will suffer. A monitor mix can be mono or stereo.
Most often, an individual live monitor mix is mono and is sent to a floor-wedge or
sidefill monitor. (The obvious exception is in-ear monitor systems.) A studio monitor
mix is usually stereo because it is sent to a headphone amplifier that requires both a
left- and a right-channel input. In both cases, the function of the aux bus is the same.
As an example, let's create a mix for Aux Bus 1:
1. The Aux 1 send control for each channel sets the send level in the Aux 1 mix.
Use these knobs the same way that you use the output level controls to dial
in your main mix. Ask your musicians what they would like in their monitor
mix and use their requests as a starting point.
2. Use the Aux 1 Output control to adjust the overall output level.
3. Press the Aux 1 AFL button to listen to the mix through the headphone or
control room outputs as you make final adjustments to the mix.
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