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Master controls, solo/mute and fader
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PRO6 Live Audio System
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Master controls, solo/mute and fader
Towards the bottom of each input fast strip are the masters section and pan control,
LCD select button, mute and solo, and the input fader.
Masters sections and pan control
The masters controls have extensive support on both the control surface and the GUI.
In general, there are three routing switches to the master buses and also pan control.
Pan provides master panning as three-way or two-way (depending on SIS™ setting)
and also provides two-way panning for any stereo mix groups stereo and subgroups
etc. (When used for monitor applications, aux, mix and main buses are controlled from
the channel master pan and fader. AFL solos also operate as a default from the main
solo switch.)
On the control surface there are two types of masters section (as shown below), one is
in each input fast strip and the other can be found in the channel strip (mix and master
bays).
Figure 33: Master controls on the control surface
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SIS (spatial imaging system) switch,
enables SIS™ mode. This mode operates with
the pan and mono level SIS image control
knobs, and acts as an LCR master bus enable,
overriding stereo and mono master bus
assignments. However, their status remains in
memory so that when SIS is disengaged, the
mono and stereo settings can return. Pressing
SIS alters the gradations of the mono level
SIS image control knob on the GUI.
2
ST (stereo) switch, connects post-fader
channel signal to master stereo bus via pan
control.
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pan control knob, adjusts the relative
levels sent to a left-right bus pair or the master
left-centre-right (LCR) buses. In SIS™ mode,
it can also control the ‘image’ to give a
constant power crossfade from LCR to stereo.
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MON (mono) switch, connects post-fader
channel signal to mono master bus.
5
mono level/SIS image dual-function
control knob. In mono mode, it acts as a mono
level control knob to adjust the mono signal
level. In SIS™ mode, it becomes a SIS image
control knob that modifies pan control knob
operation to place the channel within a
three-speaker system (see “Stereo panning”
on page 312).
6
Quick access button, assigns the masters
section to the channel strip and assigns the
masters etc. processing area to the GUI
channel strip.