Solid State Logic AWS 900+ SE, Owner'S Manual

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Centre Section Metering
Fitted above the centre section are four VU meters dedicated to reading left and right outputs of the Record and
Mix busses.
Beneath these are three sets of eight LCD bargraphs. These are dedicated to the metering of (from left to right):
the L, C, R, LS, RS, LFE monitor busses, plus stereo metering of the Solo/AFL/PFL bus (
MONITOR ); the eight
Track bus outputs ( TRACK BUSSES ); Stereo Cue A and B plus the four FX bus outputs ( CUE/FX BUSSES ).
The standard scale is +24dB for 0dBFS (top of the scale); see below for alternative scale options.
The monitor and solo meter feeds are also available via a 25-way D-type connector on the centre section
connector panel, for use with external metering/monitoring.
Meter options are provided by soft key selections on the monitor panel; select the
METERS button to produce
the following selections:
DAW – Locks the channel metering to the selected DAW layer.
Anl – Locks the channel metering to the analogue layer.
If neither DAW or Anl are selected the channel metering follows the consoles Focus switch.
PK
– Switches the meters to peak reading mode; peak readings are held for 3 seconds.
HLD – Select this to hold the peak readings indefinitely.
CLR – Press this to clear the currently held peak readings.
Further meter scaling available in ‘SSL / Misc’ menu. Options are as follow;
24 dbu = 0dBFS / 22 dbu = 0dBFS / 20 dbu = 0dBFS / 18 dbu = 0dBFS.
EXTA EXTB
AFL/
PFL
MONITOR
OPTIONS
METERS MISC
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