I completely agree that there needs to be a much more obvious “in-your-face” indication that sends on fader is active. I would prefer flashing LED’s on all channel strips, but at minimum keep the current selection flashing. I oversee a lot of volunteers and student workers who are just learning mixing/consoles/etc and I get a huge volume of calls related to this very issue. Seriously, at least half the time I get a call it is “the fader isn’t working… I turn it up but don’t hear anything…” – I believe I have asked for this in a previous post a year or so ago, but came back to the forums one more time to vent my frustration and hope that this makes it into a firmware update soon!
Seriously… Coming from Yamaha world (all channel select keys light up), to Soundcraft (all fader lightstrips change colors), to Digico (all channel screens change color and name)… I’m sure there are more examples out there – but it seems like A&H completely missed the ball on this simple but important piece of communication to the engineer.
