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The Fat Channel
4.5 Metering
StudioLive™ 16.0.2 USB
Owner’s Manual
4.5
Metering
The StudioLive offers flexible metering at the touch of a button.
The 12 meters in the Fat Channel section can monitor:
4
The input signal for each channel, post-gain and
pre-dynamics, pre-EQ, and pre-fader
4
The gain reduction for each input channel
4
The output level for each of the four Aux buses
4
The output level of Main bus
Finally, the meters can be used to recall the fader settings for a saved Scene.
4.5.1
StudioLive Metering Controls
The Meters section of the StudioLive is located to the left of the fader bank.
Each of these buttons are toggle switches; you turn them on and off by pressing
them. The meter state can also be changed by pressing another button in the
Meter section, or any Select button on the StudioLive, or one of the Aux Encoder
Mode buttons.
See Section 5.2
for more information on Aux Encoder Modes.
Power User Tip:
It is important to mention that the meters simply overlay the selected Fat
Channel state. For instance, if you have Channel 1 selected and then press the Output
button in the Meter section, the knobs and buttons in the Fat Channel section will still be
active. The advantage of this is that you can make adjustments in the Fat Channel while
monitoring your entire mix.
Input Metering Button. Turns PFL Input Metering On and Off.
Switches the meters to display the pre-dynamics, pre-fader level of the input bus.
Meters are one to one (Meter 1 shows the level of Channel 1, etc.). The input signal
for stereo channels that are stereo linked is a sum of the left and right inputs.
Output Metering Button. Turns AFL Output Metering On and Off.
Switches the meters to display the post-dynamics, post-fader level of the
Aux and Main buses. Only the last six meters are used. Meter 7 displays
Aux 1 output, Meter 8 displays Aux 2 output, Meter 9/10 displays Aux
3 output, Meter 11/12 displays Aux 4 output, and Meters 13/14 and
15/16 display the left and right side, respectively, of the Main bus.
Gain Reduction Metering Button. Turns Gain Reduction Metering On and Off.
Displays the amount of gain reduction being applied to each input
channel. Meters have a one-to-one relationship with channels (that
is, Meter 1 shows the gain reduction of Channel 1 and so on).
Fader Locate Button. Turns Fader-Recall Metering On and Off.
Displays the fader position of the stored Scene. When recalling a fader position,
adjust the fader until only the center LED is visible in its meter. To recall the stored
position of an Aux or Main fader, simply move the fader. The meters will instantly
flip to display the stored position of each of the output faders. The same meters
that display the outputs are used for locate.
See Section 6.2.4
for details.
