Channels and Processing (Alt+1)

Everything for one channel at a time: its mute and solo, its input settings, and the desk's processing. There is a page for every input channel on your desk. The SMART pads mix is the odd one out: it has a mute and a solo but no processing, because the desk applies none to the pads.

• Mute or Listen: Mute silences a channel everywhere, including the recording and anything you stream. The one exception is an output where you have set this channel's level by hand in a custom mix, and the reply names it. Listen (solo) puts just that channel in your headphones and leaves everything else alone, so it is the safe way to check a mic mid-show. The desk gives no clue that a solo is still on, and the app's announcements go quiet while one is, which is why Clear every solo sits beside it.
• Mute the wireless mic: For a RODE wireless mic paired to the channel. It mutes the transmitter rather than the channel, so a guest who walks off still wearing one is not an open mic in the room.
• 48V phantom power: Condenser mics need it to work at all. Dynamic mics, such as a PodMic or an SM7B, do not need it and are not harmed by it. If a condenser is silent, check this first.
• Set gain automatically: Gain is normally set by watching a meter while you talk. Press this, talk normally for fifteen seconds after the tone, and the app sets the gain for you, tells you what it changed and offers an undo. Talk at the volume you will really use.
• Check this channel's level: Speaks the level for half a minute, then the loudest it got. It is as useful on a phone over Bluetooth or a computer over USB as on a mic, since those arrive at a level nobody chose. The fader has to be up a little for it to hear anything, but where it sits does not change the reading.
• Mic type: Tells the desk which mic is plugged in, so it can set its preamp up to suit. Applying one also loads that mic's own default gain, so expect the gain to move.
• Presets: Mic channels only. Apply a ready-made voicing or save your own. The list shows which preset the channel is on, or says it has been changed since.
• Processing: The desk's studio chain: equaliser, compressor (evens out loud and quiet), noise gate (cuts noise between words), de-esser (tames harsh s sounds), high-pass filter (removes rumble), tone shaping and pan. With Advanced processing off, Tone shaping sets the other modules for you, so their values move on their own; switch it on to set each module yourself. Pan does nothing while processing is off.
• Effects: Mic channels only: echo and reverb, each with its own switch and settings.