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Behringer WING · Waves eMotion LV1

Preamp gain, in the channel strip.

Headlink puts gain and 48V for your WING onto LV1's own channel strip — where your hand already is. No mapping, no overlay window, nothing to configure.

64
channels
0.1 s
repatch follow
0
to configure
eMotion LV1's channel strip showing a Preamp section with Gain at 15.0, a 48V button, polarity and Trim on two adjacent channels.
The controls — LV1's channel strip
eMotion LV1's System Inventory, Rack A: slot one holds Wing-1, shown ON with the console pictured, running DIG at 48 kHz. The slot beside it is empty.
The device — LV1's System Inventory

Both of these are eMotion LV1. The WING is listed in LV1's own inventory as an I/O device, and its preamps appear on LV1's own strip. Headlink is what makes them appear.

The difference

An overlay makes you go and find the channel.

Both approaches end up changing the same preamp. Only one of them fits what you are doing during a soundcheck.

Overlay app

  1. Map every channel to a preamp, by hand, before you start
  2. Notice a channel needs gain
  3. Bring the overlay window forward
  4. Find that channel in the overlay
  5. Adjust it there
  6. Go back to the mixer

Six steps, and a mapping table to maintain.

Headlink

  1. Turn the gain knob on the strip

One. The mapping is read from the desk.

On the rig

Mix on the strip. Check the patch when you need it.

Day to day you never open Headlink — you turn the gain knob where it already is. The window is there for the question LV1 can't answer: which preamp is actually behind this input.

A live rig: eMotion LV1 running with its preamp controls on the left, and the Headlink dashboard open over it listing all 64 channels with their sources and gains.

A working session — LV1 behind, Headlink over it. Both showing the same desk.

What it does

It asks the console, instead of asking you.

The card cannot tell LV1 which preamp feeds which input, so most tools make that your problem. Headlink reads it from the WING directly — and keeps reading it.

Controls on the strip

Gain and 48V appear on LV1's own channel strip, drawn by LV1. Nothing floats over the mixer and nothing has to be brought forward.

LV1 channel strip · gain · 48V

Finds the desk itself

Broadcasts for the console on every network it can see, and takes its address, model and firmware from the reply. No IP to type.

autodiscovery · no address to enter

Follows repatching

Reads which physical input feeds each card channel and re-reads it when you change the routing mid-session. The strip follows.

~0.1 s · no restart

Every input its own range

A local XLR and an AES50 stagebox have different ranges and different detents. Both are read from the console, per channel.

−2.5…45.0 / 2.50 dB  −3.0…45.5 / 0.50 dB

Works both ways

Turn it on the strip and the preamp moves. Turn it on the desk and the strip follows, quantised to whatever the console actually applied.

LV1 → desk · desk → LV1

Reversible, and honest

The stock Waves module is kept beside ours and put back with one click. If the desk stops answering, Headlink says so instead of showing a stale number.

one-click uninstall · fails to pass-through

The Headlink dashboard: 64 channels, each showing its physical source and gain, local inputs edged cyan and AES50 inputs amber, with phantom power marked and per-group ranges listed below.

Read from the console: every input, its real source, and the range that source actually has.

Setup

Three steps, and it finds the desk itself.

No installer to run, no drivers, nothing to unpack. One application that sets itself up and can put everything back exactly as it was.

Headlink setup wizard: step one finds the console on the network, step two installs it, step three starts LV1.

At a glance

It tells you when it can't help.

The tray mark carries one job: whether Headlink is actually working right now. Colour only — the shape never changes, so you read it without looking.

Searching
Looking for the desk
Linked
Gain and 48V are live
Attention
Running, without preamp control
Link lost
The desk stopped answering
ItemDetail
ConsoleBehringer WING · WING Rack · WING Compact
HostWaves eMotion LV1 17.x (Windows 10 / 11)
ConnectionWSG card + network to the desk — autodiscovered
ControlsGain, 48V — both directions
Channels64
SourcesLocal XLR, AES50 A/B/C, StageConnect
On the desknothing installed — OSC over your existing network
Uninstallone click; the stock Waves module is kept beside it

Coming soon

In final testing, on real rigs.

Headlink is running today on a WING Rack driving eMotion LV1 through a WSG card — all 64 channels, both directions. Pricing and a download will be posted here once it ships.

Headlink is an independent product. It is not made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Waves Audio or Music Tribe. WING and eMotion LV1 are the trademarks of their respective owners.