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The Monitoring Panel
Turning on the meters in the UI toolbar displays the Monitoring panel that runs along the top of
the Fairlight page, which shows all of the audio meters that correspond to the tracks in the
Timeline, as well as the Bus meters that correspond to the Mains, Subs, and Aux buses of your
mix, the Control Room meters, and a video viewer.
The Monitoring panel
Track Meters and Monitoring Controls
At left, a row of audio meters corresponds to the channel strips of the Mixer, one meter for
every audio track in the timeline. Each track displays the number of meters that corresponds to
that track’s audio mapping, with mono tracks having a single audio meter, stereo tracks having
two, 5.1 tracks having six, and so on.
Track audio meters with different
numbers of meters depending on
that track’s audio mapping
Each track and bus meter (with the exception of the Loudness meters) display RMS (root mean
square) levels against a dB scale. A single line indicating the maximum value at any given
moment in time is held briefly just above the current RMS levels, which appear as a solid bar
extending from the bottom of the meter. RMS meters display a weighted “average”
representation of the audio level that’s closer to the way audio is actually perceived, although
not as accurate as the loudness meters discussed later in this section.
Each meter bar is color coded to indicate two different thresholds of sound level, from low
(green) to high (yellow) to very high (red).
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