Harman SoundCraft Vi3000, User Manual

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Vi3000 USER MANUAL
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9.2 9.2: MUTE & VCA GRPS > VCA GROUPS
9.2 MUTE & VCA GRPS > VCA GROUPS
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 Group Operation
VCA and 'E'
Buttons
Active
Fader Pages buttons for
mapping VCAs to the
Master Bay faders.
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.
VCA Masters 1-16 can be assigned to any Output Fader
page from A to E, along with Bus Output faders using the
User Defined fader page setup. The VCA page cannot
be remapped and always contains VCA 1-8.
Select VCA
Range
VCA Masters
[ON] Buttons
Inactive Active
Master On/Off button for
all of the VCA's member
channels.
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.
All VCA
Members
OFF (muted)
All VCA Mem-
bers ON
VCA Group
Fader
Low Range
An offset dB level for
all channels that are
members of the VCA
Group.
• 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 offset 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.
-infinity
VCA Master
Solo/Sel
Inactive Active
A master Solo button for
all of the VCA's member
channels.
Depending on the setting of the AUTO button in the
Monitor Setup page (SOLO section), activating a VCA
Solo will result in PFL (if the group only has one member
channel) or AFL (if the group has more than one member
channel).
Otherwise the VCA solo will follow the setting of the PFL/
AFL switch in the Monitor Setup page.
Normal Soloed