Hi all. I have a show coming up where the lead singer also plays the whistle. They want to use the same mic for both vocals and whistles and they sing and play during the same songs. As you can imagine there is a totally different eq and compression between the two sources. I want to route the source mic across two channels and then use a softkey to toggle between the channels with one muted when the other is open and visa versa. The critical factor is that the change needs to be instantaneous and that there is no chance of having both channels muted at the same time. I can live with sitting on one softkey or toggling between two. Do I need to create two scenes and toggle between them with two softkeys or is there another way. thanks
untested: i think this can be solved by creating two scenes with recall filters on the channel.
Another approach could be “switching” the two channels using ducking and a sidechained noise gate:
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Patch the mic to two Channels (or use two mics)
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Channel 1: “Vocal” channel. Has a ducking compressor with side Chain fed from the Channel 2 Output
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Channel 2 : “Whistle” channel. Hard noise gate with a narrow-band self-keying sidechain that triggers by the whistle, not by the vocal
That Way, as long as the performer sings Channel 2 keeps closed by the gate and so Channel 1 remains unducked. With whistle, channel 2 Gate opens and ducks Channel 1 down. You can adjust a Mix between both channels using the ducking and gate depth (max gain reduction) parameters.
Could need a lot of fumbling with the sidechain filter for the whistle, so this may be nothing to do in a time-critical sound check. But once it works gives a hands-off solution with no need of interaction at all.
Eventually a better approach is to do similar thing but think of a “main” and a “support” channel instead of two separate Instrument channels. May give besser mix results.