Pfl afl and sip pfl pre fader listening will route the selected signal to the monitors before fader pan and eq so you can hear the signal as it is when it comes into your mixer.
What is control room out on a mixer.
Ideally control rooms are designed to be carefully regulated in terms of sound isolation and accurate sound reproduction as this is where the final decisions are made about how a recording will sound.
I take sound card out and feed that to the desk tape in which i route to the control room.
By doing it this way any changes to listening level are independent of desk settings.
On most mixers the master control is a fader.
The master control section is used to adjust the levels of the overall output of the mixer.
The main out i use to feed into soundcard.
It is normally used for setting the gain on channels.
There are 3 major solo modes you can encounter on a mixer.
On some audio equipment typically mixers there are control room outputs and associated control room level volume and mix controls.
The master control section on a large live venue or sound recording mixer typically has sub group faders master faders master auxiliary mixing bus level controls and auxiliary return level controls.
I connect monitors and headphones via control room out not main out.