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Control Room Tab and Soloing

Above is the CONTROL ROOM tab on the View menu (first menu item, third tab).  Here you can view the soloing status of your input channels, AUX mixes, group mixes, digital inputs, EFX mixes and your main stereo mix.  These can all be adjusted between AFLs and PFLs - After Fader Listens and Pre Fader Listens.  You touch the onscreen icons to alternate between the two.

As you can see in the above picture, some of the icons have the word "SAFE" written within.  This indicates that the channel's set to SAFE SOLO.  Typically when you solo a signal, it will be cut off from the main mix and sent only to the control room.  Setting a SAFE SOLO will ensure when you solo the signal it will be sent to both the control room and the main mix.  To set a safe solo, you just push the SOLO SAFE button followed by the button of the channel you want to set the solo safe to.

To activate a solo within this menu, you can push the SOLO button, followed by the channel(s) you wish to activate the solo on.  For the AES/EBU or EFX mixes, you simply need to touch the buttons to activate the solo (as there's no PFL/AFL option on these).  A soloed signal is indicated by a red "headphone" icon within the corresponding button.

Also in this menu you have a level meter, a mono/stereo adjustment button and a level control.  Not too shabby!

As anyone who's used almost any mixer will know, the control room mix will be sent to the Control Room outputs on the rear (they're XLR connectors on the Summit) as well as the headphones output on the front of the Summit.

AUX and Group Mixes

From the first tab of the View menu (CHANNEL) and onto the second tab: AUX/GROUP.

The above picture shows the AUX 1 channel sends.  You can select the AUX or Group mix you want to view/alter by using the icon on the right hand side of this menu (it currently says AUX 1, but will display whichever mix you've currently selected).

You can't see it in this image, but this whole screen is actually a series of level meters.  On the left-hand side of the image you can see 16 virtual rotary controls (brown indicates their "pre-fader sends").  Above these users can view the level of signal that is currently sent from the corresponding channel to the AUX mix.  The overall level of the AUX mix (pre- or post-fader!) can be viewed on the right-hand side next to the virtual fader.

So what are these virtual rotary controls for?  You can actually adjust the AUX sends to the currently chosen mix by pushing these and spinning the onboard jog wheel.  But if this isn't to your liking, the mixer's hardware also has these buttons:

These adjust the FADER MODE of the Summit (as suggested by the CAPITALIZED name above the buttons).  Push the any of these AUX buttons and you will be able to adjust the AUX sends to the selected mix using the 16 channel faders on the Summit.  Piece of cake.

So, for example, you push AUX 1 in the FADER MODE section.  Your faders will then move into their appropriate positions.  If you have absolutely no channel sends to your AUX 1 mix, the faders will all fall down to the minus infinity point.  You can then push any of these faders up to send that channel to your AUX1 mix.  To return to channel mode, simply push the "channel" button in your LAYER MODE section like so:

AUX and Group mixes can be assigned to the Multi Outputs on the back of the mixer, but we'll talk about that when we get there.