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Use cases

Everyday jobs, step by step. Each one names the controls it uses, so you can read more about any of them.

Record a podcast with two mics

Uses: 48V, Auto-Gain, names and icons, meters.

  1. Plug the mics into Inputs 1 and 2. For condenser mics, press 48V on each strip and confirm.
  2. Open the first mic’s settings with its gear, choose Auto-Gain › Start, and have that person talk at their loudest until it finishes. Do the same for the second.
  3. In each mic’s settings, name it (“Host”, “Guest”) and pick the Vocal mic icon.
  4. Leave the two unlinked, so each has its own fader and mute.
  5. Watch the meters as you talk: green most of the time, amber on the loudest moments, never red.

Tip

If the clip light keeps coming on, take a few dB off that mic’s gain in its settings.

A separate headphone mix

Uses: cues, cue sends, the outputs panel.

You listen on speakers; a singer in headphones wants more of their own voice.

  1. Open Settings › Cues and headphones. Set Headphones to Cue 1, and Cue 1 to Own mix.
  2. Open each channel’s settings and unfold Cue 1. Set its Send: their vocal up, the guitar down.
  3. Set the headphone level in the outputs panel.

Your speakers still play the monitor mix, and your faders don’t change their headphones: cue sends are taken before the fader.

Two people, two mixes

Set Cue 2 to Own mix and give it its own sends, then set Line Out 3/4 to Same as Cue 2 and plug a headphone amp into Line Out 3/4.

Play a games console through the Volt

Uses: Line 3 and 4, link, names and icons, the tray.

  1. Connect the console’s left and right audio to Line 3 and Line 4 on the back.
  2. Press Link on the Line 3 strip, so the console is one stereo strip.
  3. In its settings, name it (“PS5”) and pick the Game console icon.
  4. Set its fader under your voice or music. −12 dB is a good start.
  5. In the desktop app, it’s in the tray mixer, for a quick change mid-game.

Bring an app’s sound into the mix

Uses: the Loopback strip.

Your computer’s normal sound doesn’t go through the faders. To mix an app in, such as music or a call:

  1. In your computer’s sound settings, send the app to the Volt’s LOOPBACK L/R output. On Windows that’s Settings › System › Sound › Volume mixer, then the app’s output device.
  2. Play something. The Loopback strip’s meters move.
  3. Set its fader, and rename it (“Music”, “Calls”).
  4. Mute it to take it out of your speakers and headphones for a moment.

Share one Volt between two computers

Uses: mix links, the status line.

With the Volt on a KVM switch or moved by hand:

  1. On the computer with the mix you want, open Settings › Your mix and copy the Mix link.
  2. On the other computer, open the link. Volt Mixer uses it there.
  3. From then on each computer sends its own copy when it connects. Bring the mix across again whenever you change it on one.

The status line says Volt not connected · on the other computer? while the Volt is away, and reconnects when it’s back. More in Other computers.

Take your mix to work on your phone

Uses: the mix QR code, your phone’s camera.

  1. At home, open Settings › Your mix and choose QR code.
  2. Scan it with your phone. Volt Mixer opens on the phone and keeps the mix.
  3. At work, open Volt Mixer on the phone. It shows the mix as a QR code.
  4. Scan it with the work computer’s camera, or choose Send the link and open it there.

No app, no account and no Wi-Fi in common: the mix travels in the QR code. More in Your phone.

Change levels from the sofa

Uses: the desktop app, Phone remote.

  1. In the desktop app, turn on Settings › Desktop app › Phone remote.
  2. Scan the QR code with your phone, on the same Wi-Fi.
  3. Ride the headphone, monitor and channel levels from your phone.

Your phone has the details and what to try if it won’t connect.

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