Don’t Mute the Control Room

When working in live settings, maintaining a consistent vocal feed for the lyrics operator during rehearsals, especially when vocals are turned off or soloed for adjustments is a common challenge. Your solution could be creating a dedicated matrix feed that ensures the vocals are always audible to the lyrics operator, regardless of the adjustments you make for the main mix; Lee Fields walks you through how to do just that on the Yamaha PM series of consoles.