Hear a channel alone in the headphones with PFL

Step by step

On the channel strip, click PFL. The button turns yellow.
Listen to the channel in the headphones.
To turn it off, click PFL again.

What PFL is

PFL means “pre-fade listen”. You hear the channel in the headphones even with the fader down or the channel muted. Use it to check a microphone before opening it on air. The stream and the recording do not change.

Volume of each PFL

Next to the PFL button there is a knob from 0 to 100. It changes only that channel's volume in the headphones. 100 is normal volume, 0 is silence.

Drag up or down to turn it. With the Shift key, the adjustment is finer.
The mouse wheel also turns it, after you click the knob.
Double-click to go back to 100.

Turn off all PFLs at once

With any PFL on, the Native mixer title becomes a yellow bar, PFL · clear. Click it to turn off all PFLs.

Questions

I turn on PFL and still hear Preview. Why?

PFL plays on the PGM side of the headphones. If 🎧 is on PVW, you hear Preview. Switch to PGM or L and R.