Reply To: Brand new sound tech

[Dick Rees]

That light will come on to let you know that the signal on the selected channel is over the threshold setting…BUT…no gain reduction will be applied unless you have the compressor turned ON for that channel.

So no worries. Just be aware that any dynamic processing such as EQ, comp or gate must be intentionally turned on for a channel before the signal is affected.

Further, the metering lights are operating pre-mute so even though you may have channels muted, you still have the ability to make adjustments to input gain as needed without having the channel in the live mix.