PreSonus Studiolive 16.0.2 Comparing Fat Channels Pro Tips

Welcome to my series on the Presonus StudioLive 1602 Digital Mixer. What we're going to talk about here is how to take advantage of the copy channel using your fat channel. So if you're doing a show and you have channel one selected here and you set up your fat channel the way you like it, then you go to channel two and you set up the fat channel for channel two. Now you may know ahead of time that you're going to use these one and two in stereo and link them. But you can play with two different settings with your fat channel and compare them with each other or even completely different situations that you can switch to later. So if I go to set those two channels up just slightly different, I can AB them against each other when I link them. So I can be on channel one, select, hit link, and what happens inside the machine is channel one is copied. All of the fat channel settings are copied to channel two so that they're identical because they're linked. And you can listen to that for a while and see what you think about it. Then undo the link and select channel two and then relink them. Now because you had channel two selected all of the fat channel for channel two is going to be copied to channel one. So you can just push a couple buttons and check a completely different setup between the two channels. And if you are slick you could even make minor adjustments doing this switching mode between the two EQs. I don't think anybody's ever done live sound has realized that it's going to sound different later in the show because of humidities and all kinds of people showing up and all these things that affect sound. So you might have a little bit higher EQ settings for later in the show and you could just flip them by going to channel two and hit link and now you got a whole different setup going on for this channel. Or they might have more than one instrument that they're playing like two different acoustic guitars and one could be EQed for a Gibson and another one could be EQed for a Martin or a Taylor. There are lots of things that can come into play with this with experience. That's how you can use the select and stereo mode link button and bounce back and forth between two completely different setups.