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Understanding the Audio Controls
You can mix audio directly from the control panel using the audio controls. As audio is quite
dynamic and changes constantly, the audio controls are important to ensure you don’t have
audio distortion from audio sources that are too high in level, or the audio is not so soft that
your program master or streaming is hard for viewers to listen to.
The knob next to the LCD on the control panel is primarily for adjusting the main audio mixer
master output, although it is also used for menu selection when you are in the LCD menus.
Ifyou look at the control panel above the main source buttons you can also see that each of
the 8source buttons has a similar control knob. Using these individual knobs together with the
8small audio meters, plus respective ON and AFV buttons, give you the audio controls for their
corresponding source inputs in the program and preview rows.
If you want to control the audio settings for input 1, then use the controls above input 1. It’s the
same for each of the other inputs to the switcher and the controls for each input correspond to
each source button.
Audio Control
To turn audio for an input on permanently, simply press the ON button above its corresponding
source button. Now the audio from that input will be sent to the built in audio mixer and be
heard on the program output.
To select audio only when the input is on air, select the AFV button. This means audio follows
video and the input is now only on when the source is on air.
When you make an adjustment to the audio level of a source using its dedicated adjustment
knob, you can see the effect on the audio meters in the LCD.
Audio Levels
Normally, the knob next the LCD is used to adjust the main audio mixer master output. Adjusting
the knob will lower or strengthen the whole program audio levels and you can see the effect on
the main audio meters in the LCD that are superimposed on the video preview.
If you want to adjust the audio for one of the inputs, this is where the small 4 LED meter above
each input is used. This small meter lets you identify where a hot audio level could be coming
from. If the main audio level is too high and only one of the small meters on the control panel
has a red flashing LED then this means that only that single input is too high level. So in this
case you don’t want to adjust the master audio level knob because all the other inputs will now
become too low. You really want to identify the specific input that is too hot and adjust just that
single audio level.
Adjust the audio knobs to adjust the audio level for a specific source
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