Permissions and custom layers in SQ mixpad

SQ SQ Troubleshooting
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The SQ has more than enough channels for almost every gig I am involved in, so it is possible to use half of the channels for monitoring and the other half for FOH duties.

I have automated the monitoring part, and like to provide the sound technician of a venue to mix the FOH from an Ipad with the SQ Mixpad, but only for the channels dedicated to the FOH-mix and not the ability to tamper the monitor-channel by accident.

So I configured a custom layer with only the FOH-channels. But to my surprise, it is still possible to tamper the levels of other channels, just by tapping the standard button in the lower left corner of the SQ Mixpad and get access to all the inputs and other items. Is this a bug or a ā€œfeatureā€. If it is a feature, I like to have a workaround, and have the means to hide the non-FOH-channels from the sound technician. How can I accomplish that?

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For this scenario as well, I would like to recommend to take a look at the more extensive capabilities of the Mixing Station app.
With it, you should be able to create a setup that allows you to control exclusively the relevant FOH channels for the Main LR mix.

Furthermore, there is not a bad chance that a technician is already familiar with ā€œthe standardā€ Mixing Station, but not with MixPad.

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It is not really a surpriseā€¦

You are confusing custom fader layers with user permissions.

Just creating a fader layer with a subset of faders on it doesnā€™t mean that the other faders are not necessarily available. There are multiple ways on the SQ to access faders that are not on a visible layer!

What you need to do is to create two (2) separate user accounts - one for each ā€˜userā€™. You can then set the user permissions to lock each user out from accessing the other userā€™s faders.

We do this with our IEMs, we only want these users to access their own feeder AUX and not to play with any other users IEM channel or anything that we are doing mixing FOH.

However, we leave the FOH engineer with access to the IEM channels on a separate layer.

Dave

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Hello Dave,

Thanks for your reply. Of course do I have multiple users with different permissions, but that does not solve the problem in SQ mixpad.

I assume your solution for mixing IEMā€™s depends on SQ4you. Yes that works.

Tom