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Glossary

AFL​

After Fade Listen. Allows a post-fader signal to be heard on the monitors and viewed on the main stereo meters.

Auxiliaries​

Secondary mix buses used to feed effects or performer foldback. Every channel can contribute to the auxiliary mixes. Aux sends can be selected pre/post fader and assigned to LF or SF.

Auxiliary Master​

The overall output-level control for an auxiliary bus after the individual channel contributions have been combined.

Bus Master​

The final trim for a standard multitrack bus. It changes the overall bus-output level without disturbing the relative balance of channels routed to that bus.

Cut​

Mutes a signal path when it is not required. Removing unused paths can reduce unnecessary noise contribution to a mix. Standard channels have separate LF and SF Cut controls.

Dim​

Reduces the control-room monitor level by a preset amount. DIM is also engaged automatically during talkback to reduce the chance of acoustic feedback.

Equaliser​

Four-band tone-shaping section. The HF/LF shelves and the two parametric mid bands can be assigned independently between LF and SF.

Flip​

CH FLIP swaps the two channel input sources. Normally DAW/Tape uses LF and Mic/Line uses SF; with FLIP engaged those assignments are reversed.

Foldback​

A monitor mix returned to performers. It can contain the stereo mix, external sources or dedicated Cue-bus mixes and can include talkback.

In-line​

A console architecture with two signal paths in one channel strip: one can feed the recording system while the other monitors recorder/DAW playback. Facilities can be shared or moved between those paths.

Insert point​

A send/return break in a signal path for series processing. Inserting a return interrupts the normal signal path and substitutes the processor return.

LF​

Long Fader. Normally carries the DAW/Tape return and is typically the monitoring/final-mix path.

Line​

High-level, high-input-impedance input intended for line-level sources such as recording-system outputs and external audio equipment.

Mic​

Low-level microphone input intended for microphone-level sources and feeding the channel microphone preamplifier.

Mix​

Assigns a path to the main stereo Mix Bus. MIX is available from both LF and SF paths and from other master-section inputs such as subgroups and Stereo EFX returns.

Pan​

Places a mono signal between left and right. Pan can also distribute a channel across odd/even multitrack bus pairs when Follow Pan is engaged.

Q / Bandwidth​

Describes the width of the frequency range affected by a peaking EQ band. Lower Q affects a wider range; higher Q targets a narrower range.

Routing​

Selecting which multitrack bus or buses receive a channel. Multiple destinations can be selected and odd/even pairs can follow Pan.

SF​

Short Fader. Normally carries the Mic/Line input and is commonly used to control the signal sent to the recording buses. SF switches beside EQ/Aux controls move those functions to the Short Fader path.

Shift​

On the ASP8024-HE channel routing matrix, SHIFT changes the 12 routing switches from buses 1–12 to buses 13–24.

Solo In Place​

A destructive solo method that leaves the selected path(s) in the stereo mix and cuts the other mix paths. It therefore affects the stereo Mix Output.

Stereo Bus​

The main two-channel console bus used to create the final stereo mix and normally used as the principal control-room monitor source.

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