Calrec BRIO 36, User Manual

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FIGURE 3 -
VCA HIERARCHY
Masters and Paths
When a fader becomes a master and it has a path attached, that path becomes a slave of the master fader.
The level of the slave path can be altered separately to the master fader level:
1. Push the master fader’s ACCESS button to see the fader jump to the position of the slave path.
2. With the ACCESS button held, move the fader to change the level of the slave path.
3. Release the ACCESS button to see the fader jump back to the master position.
Other VCA information
A VCA Slave can only be set +10dB higher than the position of its VCA Master.
When a Primary VCA Master, Secondary VCA Master and Slave are all pushed to the top of their travel it is possible to
make the gain of the Slave go up to +30dB.
If the level of the VCA Master fader is taken below -50dB the level of the slave cannot be altered so that the balance of
the VCA group is preserved at low levels. This has been put in place for safety as making alterations at such low levels
would be likely to produce inaudible results that would be significantly amplified when the master is later opened.