I have had a few gigs recently where the lead vocalist has used the same mic for an instrument (sax, harmonics, Irish whistle). As you can imagine, the EQ, compression, and FX can differ greatly for the vocals and the instrument. I typically route the source mic into two channels and EQ accordingly. I then have to sit on the mute buttons, which is OK, but it can get a bit hairy on fast vox/instrument transitions, as it’s easy to mute both by accident, which is not great mid-song. It would be amazing if there were a softkey setup that allowed mute groups to be toggled. That way, there would be no chance of having both channels muted simultaneously. Surely, this could be done in the firmware.
You can program two scenes and fire these two with one button.
Scene1 > Mute instrument channel, set the user button to the scene 2
Scene2> Mute Vocal channel, set the user button to scene 1
Block all recalls not involved in your switching for both scenes.
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Hi Steffen. Thanks for the suggestion. I will give this a try and see how I get on. Ideally, I wanted to achieve this with just one soft key, but I have a few spares. I will give it a go this weekend with a sax / vocal set-up.
My suggestion uses only one softkey!
Steffen, thanks. I managed to work it through. The key was to remove the softkey being used from the global safe, which is enabled by default. Otherwise, the softkey remains locked to the first channel decision. It all works perfectly, thank you.
All global saves are disabled by default. At least on the dLive and SQ.
Otherwise, it would lead to unpredicted results for the majority of the users.
I will take a look on the Director later to confirm it.
That’s true, but:
SQ doesn’t have any (Global) Safes for Hotkeys, and in the Global Filters, among other things, they are blocked by default.
Hmmm…maybe my memory fools me on this.
I thought initial state was all off.
Anyway, the suggestion is working. That’s the important part.