Monitoring Controls

‌Monitoring Controls‌

The Monitoring controls on the right side of the Fairlight Desktop Console is where you control the listening levels for the Control Room and Studio speakers. These controls default to Control Room monitor levels and can be changed at any time using the Monitor knob and buttons. Hold the CANS button to re-target all of the Monitoring controls for studio monitoring.

Fairlight Desktop Console Monitoring controls

Monitoring Knob

Use this knob anytime during recording, playback, or mixing to adjust the Control Room or Studio listening levels. Changes to the Control Room levels are reflected in the DaVinci Resolve Timeline monitoring controls located in the upper-right corner of the Edit page and Fairlight page Timelines. If you are using an optional HDMI Monitor, you’ll see the monitoring controls in the upper-left corner of the screen. Sometimes the monitoring environment must be set to a standard level and not changed. This is called Fixed Level monitoring. For example, if your control room has been calibrated with a sound pressure level (SPL) meter, you will probably want to set a Fixed monitoring level. When fixed, the Control Room knob has no affect on the monitoring levels. When Fixed Level monitoring is toggled on, the listening level meter in the upper-right of the Timeline GUI turns from green to blue.

Control Room monitoring controls include:

DIM: This button reduces the Control Room monitor volume by -15dB. Press to toggle Dim on or off. The DIM button state is mirrored in the DaVinci Resolve monitoring controls. When DIM is toggled on, the level slider in the onscreen monitoring controls turns yellow. Control Room levels automatically DIM during Studio talkback. Use the Monitoring knob to adjust the DIM level.

MUTE: Use this button to mute or unmute the Control Room monitors as well as turn on or off Fixed Level monitoring.

Press to mute or unmute Control Room monitoring.

Hold CTL and press Mute to switch on or off Fixed Level monitoring.

When Fixed Level monitoring is switched on, the level slider in the onscreen monitoring controls turns blue.

Hold CTL + SHIFT while turning the Monitoring Control Knob to adjust the fixed level.

SRC: Use this button to toggle between the last two selected monitor sources. Holding this Source button along with the associated USER button selects a specific bus for monitoring. For example, If you Hold SRC and press USER 2, the monitoring will change to bus 2, while holding SRC and pressing USER 5 will change the monitoring to bus 5.

SPKR: This button toggles between the last two selected monitor sets. Holding this Speaker button and pressing the associated USER button selects the specific monitor set. The two default speaker sets are MAIN and NEAR. Holding SPKR and pressing USER 2 will switch to the NEAR monitoring set, and holding SPKR and pressing USER 1 will return the Control Room monitoring to the MAIN speaker set.

The Studio monitoring controls adjust the Studio monitoring circuit of a Fairlight accelerator card installed on your workstation. Hold the CANS button to target the monitoring controls for Studio monitoring.

Studio monitoring controls include:

Studio knob: Hold CANS to use this to dial the monitoring level of the speakers in the Studio.

DIM: Hold CANS and press this button to reduce the Studio monitor volume by -15dB.

MUTE: Hold CANS and use this button to mute or unmute Studio monitoring.

SRC: Hold CANS while pressing this button to toggle between the last two selected Studio monitor sources.

SPKR: Hold CANS and press this button to toggle between the last two selected Studio monitor sets.

TALK: Either Momentary press or latch this button to engage a talkback microphone. When latched, the talkback mic remains live.

Press and hold the talk button to use talkback without latching. In this case, the talkback mic will remain live only during the momentary-press and shut off when you release. Engaging talkback also DIMS the Control Room circuit. You can modify the talkback functionality and general purpose input and output (GPI/GPO) in the Talkback controls available in the Fairlight menu in DaVinci Resolve.

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