Specifications

Chapter 14: Muting and Mute Groups 139
Using Mute Groups
Mute Groups are activated using the Mute Group controls
on-screen, or the Function switches on the S3 control surface if
you assigned one or Mute Groups to them.
To activate a Mute Group:
 On-screen, click a Mute Groups button 1–8 to mute the mem-
bers of the corresponding group. The Mute switches of the
Mute Group members flash to indicate they are implicitly
muted.
 On the S3 control surface, press the Function switch you as-
signed to control the Mute Group. The Mute switches of the
Mute Group members flash to indicate they are implicitly
muted.
To activate multiple Mute Groups:
 Click any number of on-screen Mute Group buttons 1–8 in any
sequence. Mute Groups function in an additive fashion.
To deactivate a Mute Group:
 Click a lit Mute Group switch on-screen.
Explicit and Implicit Channel Mute with
Mute Groups and VCAs
This section describes the behavior of channel Mute switches
when used with Mute Groups and VCAs. Mute Groups, VCAs
and Explicit Mutes
Channels can be muted in three ways:
Explicitly Using the channel Mute switch.
Implicitly As a member of a Mute Group or VCA.
– and –
Implicitly As a result of another channel being soloed.
Using Channel Mute Switches
Any input or output channel implicitly muted by a Mute Group or
VCA can be explicitly un-muted, explicitly muted, and reset to its
implicit mute state by repeatedly pressing a channel Mute switch.
Explicitly unmuting or muting a channel in this way does not per-
manently remove that channel from the Mute Group or VCA.
This feature is useful to temporarily unmute a channel during a
line check without having to release the entire Mute Group or
VCA.
To cycle through the available Mute modes:
1 Activate a Mute Group, or mute a VCA. The Mute switches on
all implicitly muted channels flash.
2 Press a flashing Mute switch to explicitly unmute the channel.
Its Mute switch is now unlit.
3 Press the same (now unlit) Mute switch again to explicitly
mute the channel. Its Mute switch is now lit solid.
4 Press the same Mute switch again to implicitly mute the chan-
nel and return it to being controlled by the active Mute Group
or VCA. Its Mute switch resumes flashing.
Activating a Mute Group on-screen
Function switches
Application
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Workstation
Select multiple channels first to be able to toggle all their
states at once. The Mute behavior may vary if some, but not
all, of the selected channels are members of a Mute Group or
VCA.