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Originally Posted by fooman  Noob question, what's a VCA group? |
There are 8 VCA Group faders on the center section of a SSL console. On each channel fader, there is a little dial that can be set to one of these groups. For instance, if you had bass on 2 tracks/ channels of the console, you could turn the dial on each of the bass channels to 2 and the VCA group "2" on the center section would be a master level and mute for those bass channels. It's like a subgroup however audio isn't actually passing through the center section group. VCA is Voltage Controlled Amplifier. It basically adds or subtracts to the voltage of the channel faders that it controls which results in higher or lower volume.