🎛️
What 🎛️ means
A silvery-grey square box, rounded at the corners, containing four black round knobs with a line marker on each. Above every knob is a semicircle made of small dots.
The 🎛️ Control Knobs emoji represents one of the equipments used in making music, both offline and online. It signifies details in any piece of music that ought to be perfected to make a masterpiece.
How and when to use it
- Control knobs essentially make the most detailed yet prominent changes to music. Hence, 🎛️ could be used to describe anything that fits this description - "It's always the little things, man. Always 🎛️".
- You could also use 🎛️ while advising someone to take things under control. For example, "Listen, there are already a billion things that aren't in your control. So, why not control the things you can 🎛️".
- Apart from just music, 🎛️ could also be used as a reference to the controls on any platform; science, aeronautics, space, navy, etc.
- 🎛️ is a must in frameworks that are precisely about music production and DJ-ing too. It could be a still from a project you're working on, a beginner's guide, an aesthetic photo of your production screen, etc.
Other Names
- 🎛️ Controls
- 🎛️ Music Production Controls
- 🎛️ Music Control Knobs
- 🎛️ Mixing Console
- 🎛️ DJ Console Controls
- 🎛️ Music Controls
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › music
- Codepoints
U+1F39B U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:control_knobs:GitHub- Keywords
- control, knobs, music
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🎛️ Control Knobs or 😰 Anxious Face with Sweat?
Runs with a crowd
🎛️ keeps company in music emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.