Show Aux Send On Top Layer

[tourtelot]

Sorry for the tweaky technical questions; my SQ6 is at a location job so I can’t work this out on my own and would love to effect the change as soon as I walk in Wednesday pre-show.

I am using a Bricasti M7 verb on some inputs using Aux5 , returning to a pair of stereo inputs. Nothing odd there. During the show, I need to turn one input’s send on and off a lot during the recording. I press the Aux5 button on the right side of the panel, turn the send fader for the one input up or down as needed, push the Aux5 button again to return to the top layer to mix, only to repeat the whole process when I need to turn up/down the reverb aux5 send next time. This process happens often as the input hears both music and speech.

Is there a way that I can move that aux5 send fade to the top layer? I am pretty nervous about switching layers so many times a show. Pulling down the input instead of the send would be pretty disastrous if I were to have a brain fart.

Thanks!

D.

[SQuser]

You can find it in the manual on page 69 – see also picture.

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[tourtelot]

Okay. I thought that might work. I am a bit leery that those strips will show up mis-labeled (the verb send in this case would show up the same as the input assigned to it?) but if the fader drag and drop works, a piece of white board tape should fix any issue.

I’ll try it tonight and get back.

D.

[nottooloud]

The send fader will show up with whatever color and text label you put on the channel. I do this all the time with my fx send faders at shows. Pull the fader down for stage patter, push it way up to punch an effect.

[tourtelot]

“Pull the fader down for stage patter, push it way up to punch an effect.” Yes, exactly!!

Two points of interest. 1) I love the capabilities of my SQ mixer; I continue to learn new and helpful features all the time. And . . .
2) I love the members of the forum. There always seems to be someone who thought about my questions before I do. Thanks all.

D.

[SQuser]

Oh – I’m afraid I misunderstood you at first.
I thought you wanted to pull down the main of the Aux (your send to the FX), but it seems to be just a single channel of this Aux mix.
Unfortunately, you can’t move this single send control of the Aux mix to your top layer – sorry!
But you’re lucky that you have a SQ>5, because the function you need can be perfectly realised with a rotary.
Assign this “Send Level Fader”, your input, “Aux 5” and the “Assign” button.
You then have the option of setting the desired level with the rotary, or using the button to unassign to Aux 5, which is basically like muting this single send.
The display on the rotary would be “A5Snd” in your case.

[tourtelot]

Just to be clear, I do not want to affect the whole Aux5 send (ie. the master send), just the send on one input. All the other inputs assigned to Aux5 (verb) I want to remain up and working. Just one input whose send needs to be turned up or down in real time.

So I am just a bit confused at this point. Can I set a rotary to work the send to Aux5 for just one input?

D.

[tourtelot]

Hmm, any other ideas? I see “Send Level Fader” on a soft rotary. Then “Aux5”. From there only allowed to choose one of the three Matrixes. And I think, even if I got this set up, it would only allow the soft rotary to move the Aux5 send master and effect all the inputs that I have sent to Aux5.

Back to changing layers tonight. Wish me luch to not pull out, litterally, THE most important input in the show mistakenly in Main L/R and not Aux5 layer.

Must be a way.

D.

[SQuser]

> I see “Send Level Fader” on a soft rotary. Then “Aux5”.
But I wrote:
> Assign this “Send Level Fader”, your input, “Aux 5” and the “Assign” button.
The second parameter is not Aux 5, but your input!

[tourtelot]

I thought I followed your instructions but I’ll revisit it on Saturday, next time I am in the hall.

Does your instruction cause the soft rotary to adjust one input’s send to the reverb or all assigned (to Aux5) inputs? If I can’t specify one input, all this will do me no good, and I have a master send of all assigned inputs already. Not what I need.

Thanks.

D.

[SQuser]

> If I can’t specify one input, all this will do me no good
I wrote:
> Assign this “Send Level Fader”, YOUR INPUT, “Aux 5” and the “Assign” button.
> The second parameter is not Aux 5, but YOUR INPUT!

[tourtelot]

Ah! I finally get it. I’ll try that Saturday.

Thanks.

D.

[tourtelot]

SQUser, your solution did, in fact, work exactly like you said it would. Thanks for the tip. Since the changes I needed to make were quick, I decided that switching layers and changing the level with the Aux send fader was simply easier. Kinda hard to set an exact level with a soft rotary without looking closely at the tiny window, and my old eyes aren’t what they never were. 🙂

It would still be cool if I could have that fader on the A level and not need to change to the Aux5 layer to affect the change somehow . . . . Is it possible to put a mute on a soft button for the input’s send to the Aux?

Hmm. The next time I am at the panel, I’ll look into it.

D.

[SQuser]

> It would still be cool if I could have that fader on the A level and not need to change to the Aux5 layer to affect the change somehow …
As I already wrote, this is unfortunately not possible.
It might be a useful new function, but in another thread you criticized me for my commitment to new features, so we’d rather not do that.
But right now you are also realizing how you can suddenly come up with new wishes in practice if you spend a little more time on the subject.

> Is it possible to put a mute on a soft button for the input’s send to the Aux?
The muting was already included in my tip – i wrote:
> Assign this “Send Level Fader”, your input, “Aux 5” and the “ASSIGN” BUTTON.
> You then have the option of setting the desired level with the rotary, or using the button to unassign to Aux 5, which is basically LIKE MUTING this single send.

[tourtelot]

Yes, that is all true. But in the same breath as my suggestion that A&H would seemingly not be interested in every little change in function on the SQ, you tell me that a function is “not possible.” And then, as above, I’ll just need to let that one go. 🙂

D.

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