I suspect its ridiculous "design" again. One of these annoyed me before. There is an overall BREAK switch that mutes all channels but not phono connectors CD in. But and a very big BUT , there is no LED associated with that button in the main section. Accidently press it and there is no evidence of it being pressed and you have a permanently "dead" system. Along with you naturally assume , on each channel, the LED would light on pressing the adjascent mute switch and otherwise light on overload, as legend says OL. But no , once again simple 1 pole latching switches and no LED reminder of any particular channel being muted. The LED is just what the label says , OL , and not a MUTE reminder at all. I thought Mackie was supposed to be a good name in htis sort of stuff. A pierced plastic shroud will be fitted over that crass killer button, so it cannot be activated accidently. If required then would need inserting a pen tip or something.