i gotten rid of my rm-3s a few months back but here goes:

underneith the eq's on each bus there's a switch that turns cue on or off. when cue is turned on and the cue pan is moved all the way to the left to "PFL" (Pre Fader Listen) the bus that has the switch that's on will be heard through the headphones. When you have let's say channel 1 playing through the speakers and you wanna cue channel 3, simply turn on cue on ch3. Now you will be able to hear what's on channel 3 and if you wanna monitor the program output simply slide the cue pan to "PGM" meaning program. There you can fade in your headphones between what's live and what's cued.

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hmmm... im not 100% sure, but i think when we pulled it to PGM, it would go silent, no matter if we were playing a track with it's volume fader all the way up. ill ask my friend and come back.

btw, why did you "get rid" of it? seems like a solid mixer to me.

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i'm not sure if i read all of that right, but here goes......

PGM - i believe stands for Program, meaning the stuff that is playing that everybody can hear

PFL - i think this stands for Pre Fader Listen (or Level) - meaning what you have cued up in your headphones

on my mixer, when you have the knob all the way to PFL, all you hear in your headphones is what you have cued up, but if you turn it to PGM you can hear what is playing out load. this feature allows you to a little (or alot) of whats playing out to be in your phones while your cueing up your other song

i hope this anwsers your question, and if not maybe somebody with that mixer can chime in with the 411

that's kinda weird that it would go silent if it's outputing through the master out and still be silent.... But then again, my rm3s' phono amps crapped out after owning it for 4 months. Good thing it was still under warranty. And good thing i got rid of it as soon as i got it back. Im never buying budget mixers again. im sticking w/ my empath.

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