Sorry for the rookie question, I should probably know the answer to this and I’m sure it’s just standard behaviour of all mixers, but strangely I cannot find a reference for it…
For simplicity sake, say I only have a kick drum mic connected and both the channel and master fader are at unity. Why is it that when selecting AFL the signal jumps by (as far as I can tell) 3 dB vs. AFL off? Is this because the LR output is attenuated/compensated to account for channel summing?
Would really like to know because ideally, I want to use the main signal indicator to set channel levels, but I’m not sure if that means I have to (a) mute everything other than the channel of interest to get the ‘actual’ level, (b) restrict myself to using the level bars on the display for setting individual channels or (c) use AFL but get channels peaking at about 3 dB (and turn the headphone output down to avoid blasting my ears when using AFL!)
