Mute Fade / Mute ‘GO’

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Though other workflow features are way more important to me (like longer show names, show sorting, and show lists not scrolling to the top when saving etc.) I do have some ‘new’ mute related stuff that would be helpful for me personally.

Mute Fade:

Hear me out. I am often in a situation where unmuting a channel at full volume sounds unnatural due to the background noise coming through. Both in the PA and in monitors. (think: opera singer entering the stage while the orchestra is playing, but won’t start singing immediately) A ‘global mute fade time’ for setting a short fade in/out is something I haven’t seen on live consoles. Even a 1 second max. would be helpful. It could also be a softkey you hold down while pressing a mute button.

Mute ‘GO’:

I often have situations where I’m told over comms what is about to happen next on stage (like in corporate events), but I have to sit around and wait for it to happen, and then mute and unmute all the correct channels extremely fast. I would love a function where you could pre-mute and pre-unmute the relevant channels, and then hit a ‘GO’ button when the change happens. You might say that you could do it vis scenes, but that process would be way to risky when doing it on the fly.

My suggestion would be to hold down a dedicated softkey while pusing mutes and unmutes, then pushing a different softkey to implement those changes.

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That is the reason a fader is implemented.

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An excellent idea for anyone who using mute buttons to mute channels or groups - I’ve often wished for that in similar situations like this.
Even if you don’t usually notice such described abrupt level changes live, they’re usually quite audible in other mixes, like for a stream, for example.

I’d love to have this option in SQ and Avantis – unfortunately, it wouldn’t be of any use to me in dLive. :wink:

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A mute fade would be very welcome!! For broadcast, that would solve so many hussles.

As an “easy fix” I think of an option, that mutes are applied after a scene fade, not instantly when launching the scene. In combination with a DCA fade somthing similar as a mute fade could be achieved.

But mute fades are a +1 for sure!