What Is Control Room Out On A Mixer

On some audio equipment typically mixers there are control room outputs and associated control room level volume and mix controls.

What is control room out on a mixer.

The main out i use to feed into soundcard. With such mixers the control panel is located in the production control room while the main unit to which all cables are connected is often located in a machine room. I connect monitors and headphones via control room out not main out. It is normally used for setting the gain on channels.

Ideally control rooms are designed to be carefully regulated in terms of sound isolation and accurate sound reproduction as this is where the final decisions are made about how a recording will sound. The master control section is used to adjust the levels of the overall output of the mixer. I take sound card out and feed that to the desk tape in which i route to the control room. Most larger vision mixers divide the control panel from the actual hardware that performs the mixer functions because of noise temperature and cable length considerations.

Pfl afl and sip pfl pre fader listening will route the selected signal to the monitors before fader pan and eq so you can hear the signal as it is when it comes into your mixer. By doing it this way any changes to listening level are independent of desk settings. This video will demonstrate how take advantage of your behringer xenyx mixer s control room outputs.