Reference Guide

990 ProChannel (Producer only)
any distortion in the ProChannel signal chain, the clipping LEDs let you identify where the clipping
occurs.
• Console Emulator enable/disable . Enables/disables the Console Emulator module.
• Output VU meters. These meters are calibrated to function responsively, just like real-world
meters. These meters fully support proper gain-staging needed for professional mixing situations
and let the user make a better judgment of the volume needed for a particular track.
• RMS/Peak. The VU meters can be switched to show RMS or Peak levels. Choose RMS to
display more of an average of the amplitudes that occur in a complete cycle of a frequency. RMS,
or Root-Mean-Square, is a little over seventy percent of peak level. Choose Peak to display the
highest amplitude in the signal that occurs in a complete cycle of a frequency.
• Trim. Adjusts the input gain. The valid range is 0% to 100% and the default setting is 0%. This
control is only available in the Console Emulator Channel module, not in the Console Emulator
Bus module.
• Drive. Adjusts how much of the pre-processed input signal enters into saturation. For example,
in an analog hardware mixer, if you put all the channel faders at +3dB, the summing circuits will
saturate more than if the channels faders are set to 0dB. With this parameter, you can control the
amount of summing saturation. The valid range is -6.0 dB to +6.0 dB and the default setting is
0dB.
• Tolerance. Simulates the component tolerances of the bus circuits. Even if all the channels in a
mixer are in theory equal each other as they are composed by the same electrical components, in
practice these components can be slightly different among the channels. For example, a 2Kohm
resistor could be 1.98Kohm on channel 1, 2.03Kohm on channel 2 and 1.99Kohm on channel 3,
and so on. By enabling the Tolerance switch, the Console Emulator module will sound slightly
different on different channels. These differences are saved into the song state, so it can be
recalled when you reload the session.
Note: The Drive parameter faithfully emulates the behavior of a fader on a real hardware
console when the Drive value is between -6 dB and +2 dB. The Drive range is extended and
goes beyond its hardware counterpart, allowing creative processing when the value is between
+2 dB and +6 dB.