Utility

Parameters

Channel tools, freely placeable — and the M/S utility (its internal order: DC filter → gain → per-channel polarity → width/M-S → bass-mono → balance).

Controls and display

Surface (the trim dial): the GAIN knob sits in a bezel at the centre of the face, on its own ±24 dB scale with a long tick every 4 dB and twelve o'clock as untouched, and the device's output level rings that bezel in real time — −48 to +6 dB with a held tick at the recent peak, amber past −6 dB and red past −3 — so the knob you touch most reads its own result. The left card carries this Utility's own IN and OUT ladders (its input, not the track's, so a Utility placed late reads what the devices before it left), the four channel keys DC · Ø L · Ø R · MONO beside them, and an IN → OUT cell reading the peak the device added or removed.

The right card is the stereo half: WIDTH and BALANCE as dials, a vectorscope of the output between them (a vertical line is mono, a round cloud is wide, a horizontal smear is out of phase), the correlation bar with a MONO SAFE / PHASE lamp, and the BASS MONO key with its crossover knob along the foot. Double-click the box to open it full width; the dock box shows the same objects with the scope between the two dials.