User Manual

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4 Basic Mixing and Routing
4.5 Main Meters
StudioLive™ Series III
Owner’s Manual
4.4.2 Editing or Deleting a Filter DCA Group
1. To edit or delete a Filter DCA Group, first touch its name to select it.
2. Touch the Edit button to enter the Filter DCA Group Edit screen.
3. To add or remove a channel from the group, touch the name of the channel in
the provided list to select or deselect them. To name or rename the group, touch
the name field. To delete this group, touch the Delete button.
When you’re finished, touch Done to confirm your changes.
4.4.3 Managing DCA Group Masters
You can bring the master faders for all existing Filter DCA Groups to the channel strips
by pressing the DCA Groups button in the Bank section.
Pressing the Select button on a DCA Group master while the DCA Groups screen is
active will select it on the screen.
Power User Tip: Pressing the Select button for a DCA Group Master will spill the group on
the faders. In this way, you can quickly make adjustments to a DCA mix.
4.5 Main Meters
This meter show signal level for the Main bus. The green LEDs at the bottom begin to
light at -65 dBFS, continuing upward to -18 dBFS. The bottom-most yellow LED
begins to light at -12 dBFS, continuing upward to -2 dBFS. The red LED at the top of
the meter lights when the signal reaches -0.1 dBFS, and remains lit for 5 seconds,
once activated, to better alert you that clipping is occurring.
4.6 FlexMixes
StudioLive Series III mixers provide 16 FlexMixes that can be used for a variety
of applications:
• Aux Mixes. Sums Aux Send levels sent from input channels. Aux mixes can be
used for many applications. The two most common applications are creating
monitor mixes and inserting external effects processors into the mix.
• Subgroup. A subgroup allows you to combine multiple channels into a single
bus so that the overall level for the entire group is controlled by a single fader
and processed by the Fat Channel. Subgroups can be routed to main mix, to a
dedicated output, or both.
• Matrix. A variant of the Aux, a Matrix can draw signal from inputs, other mixes,
buses, the main output bus, and so on. Matrix mixes are more commonly used to
send audio to different loudspeaker zones or to provide a producer or director a
different mix.
The Mix Select buttons allow you to choose the mix you’d like to control. When a mix
is selected, the channel faders will display the level for that mix only. These buttons
will change color depending on how they are configured.