SQ-7 mute behaviour

[gololedzbs]

Hello! Is there a way not to mute Pre-Fader Aux Sends when MUTE button is being pressed?
We use Pre-Fader Aux for talent and production crew to communicate.

[SQuser]

This is not possible in SQ.
You would probably have to use (an) additional channel(s) for this.

[nottooloud]

Route your channels to a group and mute the group.

[Maxdrums]

unassigns channel to a mix

[gololedzbs]

Thank you for your replies!
Muting the group is the same thing as muting individually. Unassigning the input seems to be working, but apparently you can’t unassign DCA. Am i missing something?
Unassigning inputs one by one is kinda non-intuitive

[Tobi]

I really don’t think that muting a group is regarding the auxes the same as individual muting.

Best Regards,
Tobias

[gololedzbs]

I tried and it’s the same

[Tobi]

Muting a group will not mute the individual Aux sends from the individual channel mixed to that group.

Just to be sure: We are Talking Groups here not DCA!

[SQuser]

Maybe we don’t understand exactly what you want to do yet.
As I said already, I would use two channels with the same input instead of one.
These could be “ganged” to do the same thing – except for mute and routing of course.
So the first channel is the one you can mute, while the second (for your Pre-Fader stuff) is not muted.
If you have to do the same thing with multiple channels, using a group would actually be the better choice – like nottooloud and Tobi already said.
This group sends the signal only to where it should be muted, while the individual channels in the group would be not muted.

[nottooloud]

Muting the group is the same thing as muting individually.

I’d guess you’re talking about mute groups, where you see the mute buttons flashing. I’m suggesting routing to a group, which has a master you can mute. Those are very different things.

[gololedzbs]

Thank you for all the input!
Yes I was thinking you were talking about Mute Groups, sorry.
To clarify: I need to be able to mute inputs on main mix and post fader auxes, but not pre fader aux.
According to block diagram of SQ-7 mute button stand before PFL sends, so i think there is no way to achieve what i want here.
So i came to the conclusion that the best way to work around that is to unassign the input from the mix. \

I ended up doubling the inputs i need to other small mixer we had around
Again, thank you for all the help!

[SQuser]

> I need to be able to mute inputs on main mix and post fader auxes, but not pre fader aux.
This is exactly what can be achieved by using the 2 channels.
Like the keyboarder who always wants to hear his keyboard in his Inear, even if it’s muted in the mix.

[Geoff]

If you only want to mute the post-fade sends and not pre-fade, assign the channels to a DCA. When that DCA is muted, all the post-fade sends will be too. If there are a lot of channels that need to be muted individually, you will burn a lot of DCAs, but it will do what you want.

Geoff

[SQuser]

> When that DCA is muted, all the post-fade sends will be too.
But in my experience also all pre-fade sends.
I think, the muting of a DCA is the same as using a mute group.
In both cases you mute all channels of the group – also including their pre-fade paths.

[airickess]

Assign the channels in question to a DCA. Instead of MUTING the DCA, just bring down the fader all the way when you want the Main and Post-Fader channels to go silent. The Pre-Fader mixes will still receive the signal.
Don’t forget folks, faders go up and down.

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