It's a beautiful thing. A complete visual representation of a channel's effects, channel selection, aux sends, and digital trim status. Double-click on a channel Select button when you need it. Hide it when you don't.

Equalizer. Adjust the 12 soft knobs and see the results in the graphical EQ window. Or drag numeric values or actual EQ curves with the mouse.

You can select from British EQ with low-band/high-pass filter, two mid-parametric bands, and a high-band/low-pass filter; British H/P EQ with low-band/high pass filter and three upper parametric bands; 4-band Parametric EQ with analog-style overlaps; or 20/20 EQ with four parametric bands, each sweepable anywhere from 20Hz to 20kHz. EQ types can be saved and recalled with patches and sessions - and can be copied to the clipboard for pasting to other channels.

Note that you can set two EQ memories for quick A/B comparisons. You can also create a time-variable Morph between the two memory settings. This is a way-cool exclusive Mackie D8B feature.

Compressor and Gate are pretty straight-forward (that's the whole point of the Fat Channel... analog-like ease of use). The "VU" Reduction and Signal meters are really dB FS displays reading -20 to 0. As with EQ, you can set and toggle between two different Compressor and Gate settings.

Channel Select lets you quickly flip between channels, assign a channel to a bus, or swap phase. You can assign a channel to a direct-out by clicking on one of the green Route To Tape buttons. Version 3.0 now includes Pre-DSP Insert and Post DSP Insert options and Input Keying dynamics. Finally, we've included a separate Dynamics EQ function which can be adjusted via the Fat Channel EQ controls.

Aux Sends and Digi Trim sections duplicate V-Pot functions in greater detail.