What is pre or post fader?
Pre-fader sends. The audio channel signal is sent to the FX channel before the audio channel volume fader. Post-fader sends. The audio channel signal is sent to the FX channel after the audio channel volume fader.
What is post fader mean?
(See WFTD archives Pre Fade/Post Fade) A post fader Aux Send taps the incoming signal from the channel at a point after the channel fader. This means that when the channel fader is down, no signal is sent out the Aux Send(s) on that channel.
When would you use a pre fader?
Aux sends may be used for two different purposes: to send signals to an external processor or to send signals to a separate monitor mix for the musicians onstage. Pre-fader aux sends are generally used for the monitor mix, because the channel faders don’t affect the signals sent from the aux sends.
What does pre fade mean?
Refers to functions that happen either before (Pre Fade) or after (Post Fade) the main fader of a channel in a mixing board. For example, the Pre Fade Listen (PFL) is taken before (pre) the fader by definition.
What is Pre fader Metering?
You can also set the level meters to show you the signal level before the channel strip volume fader, called pre-fader metering. You may want to use pre-fader metering when you want to adjust a signal using the controls on your audio hardware before recording.
Should monitor mixes be pre or post fader?
A: Pre-fader sends are normally used for monitors, cue mixes, or headphone mixes. This is so that moves made with the faders (which affect front of house or the in-studio mix) do not affect the monitor mix, which needs to be independent. Post-fader sends are almost always used for effects.
What does the fader do?
Faders are most commonly used on mixing boards and graphic equalizers, where it is nice to have both an easy way to move the level up and down, and to provide a sort of graphic representation of the relative levels of many channels (or frequencies in the case of an EQ).
Are monitors pre or post fader?
What is pre fader listen?
PFL stands for Pre-Fade Listen. It allows you to monitor the channel in question’s signal level at a point immediately prior to the channel fader, and will therefore include any EQ or dynamics that might have been applied on that channel.
What is the difference between pre fader and post fader?
Pre Versus Post Fader. (See WFTD archives Pre Fade/Post Fade) A post fader Aux Send taps the incoming signal from the channel at a point after the channel fader. This means that when the channel fader is down, no signal is sent out the Aux Send(s) on that channel.
What is the difference between a post-fader and a pre-fader auxiliary send?
“What is the difference between a post-fader and a pre-fader auxiliary send and in what situations would I use either one?” (See WFTD archives Pre Fade /Post Fade) A post fader Aux Send taps the incoming signal from the channel at a point after the channel fader.
How does a pre-fader aux send work?
As its name suggests, a pre-fader Aux send is not influenced by channel-fader moves, because the signal is sent to the processor through the Aux send before it gets to the fader. Therefore, the processed signal level from a pre-fader Aux send remains constant, no matter how you move its corresponding channel fader.
What does it mean when the channel fader is down?
This means that when the channel fader is down, no signal is sent out the Aux Send (s) on that channel. Post-fader Aux Sends are generally used as “effects sends,” to send a signal out from a particular channel to an effects processor (see WFTD Effects Loop ).