Specifications

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On the Pro Tools System
To perform a Virtual Soundcheck:
1 Launch Pro Tools.
2 In the New Session dialog or the Quick Start
dialog, choose
Open Session or Open Recent
Session
to open the session that corresponds to
the currently loaded Show file on your VENUE
system.
3 Make sure that each input track’s output as-
signment matches its input assignment one-for-
one. To change the track’s output assignment,
click the Input Path selector and choose the in-
put.
4 In the Edit window toolbar, or in the Transport
window (
Window > Transport) click Play, or press
the Spacebar to begin playback.
FWx Virtual Soundcheck
With FWx, you can perform the equivalent of a
Virtual Soundcheck using Snapshots to store
and recall console settings. Create one Snapshot
to store the settings with Stage inputs active,
and another to store the settings with Pro Tools
inputs active.
Because Pro Tools input gains will be different
from Stage input gains, you also scope and store
PRE settings–which include channel input gain
settings–in both Snapshots.
This way, you can adjust input gains for Pro
Tools inputs to approximate the input gains for
the Stage inputs, and then store those settings in
the Pro Tools Snapshot. When you recall the
Snapshot with Stage inputs active, your Stage in-
put gain settings are restored.
When you want to do another soundcheck at a
later time using the same inputs, input gain set-
tings are restored by recalling the Snapshot with
Pro Tools inputs active.
No other parameters are stored, however, so any
changes made in either Snapshot carry over
when switching between the two Snapshots.
This lets you work on channel and system EQ,
dynamics, and effects using Pro Tools tracks,
and have the changes carry over to your live mix.
On the VENUE System
To perform a Virtual Soundcheck with FWx:
1 Go to the Snapshots page.
2 Recall an existing Snapshot by selecting a
Snapshot from the Snapshots list and clicking
the
Recall button.
See “Assigning Outputs to Tracks for Moni-
toring, Playback, and Virtual Soundchecks”
on page 25 for more information.
See the VENUE D-Show Guide, the
VENUE Profile Guide, or the VENUE SC48
Guide for more information on Snapshots.
Snapshot Command buttons