Recall Safe on the PM1D

I just learned an important note from reading archived posts on the Live Audio Board about the PM1D.

Since we upgraded to Version 2 of the console software, a feature supposed to be included was when you put a channel into recall safe, it puts the channel gain into safe mode as well. There is a setting on the recall safe screen to choose whether recall safe effects only channel settings or unit+channel.

The PM1D system’s scene recall function has three subsets of memories: Unit, Patch and Name.

The unit memory controls: gain, phantom power and whether the A or B input is used.

In the “Recall safe” page of the “scene” menu, you can choose whether to have all parameters recall safe or just a few of the parameters. Also you can have the unit assigned to an input in recall safe.

So when pressing the recall safe for a channel on the control surface, this only recall safes the parameters which are not controlled by the unit memory. To recall safe gain, phantom power and whether the A or B input is used you have to go to the “recall safe” page and make the “unit” for that particular channel recall safe.

I enjoy the level of reliability and control provided by the PM1D in our facility, but it is quite the task to stay on top of all of the usability quirks of the control surface/software combination!