I’m trying to program scenes on an SQ7 for a musical theater production. In this production there are a number of actors that play small named roles during parts of the production, and sing as a member of the ensemble in other parts of the production. I want to use Groups for each ensemble singing number – a different group for each ensemble song. To have this solution provide appropriate level control, it is of course important that channels going to a group do not go to the Main LR by themselves. When the actor is performing a named role, I don’t want them in any group and instead I want their mic signal routed to Main LR.
I have the board set for 4 auxes and 8 groups. In the Routing screen I can set “On” or “Off” settings for Main LR, Aux 1 through Aux 4, Group 1 through Group 8, and FX1 Send through FX4 Send. The “On” or “Off” settings for Group 1 through Group 8 are saving their states in different scenes. However, the “On” or “Off” settings for Main LR are not saving with Scenes; no matter where this setting is set per channel, recalling scenes does
change this setting.
In the Scenes screen, Global Filter > Input/FX, the following are set to “Allow”: Patch, Processing, Name/Colour, Pan/Balance, and Mute. Preamp is Blocked (I don’t want scenes to change my gain settings), Fader is Blocked (I don’t want scenes moving my faders), and AMM is blocked (I’m not using AMM). In the Scenes screen, Global Filter > Mix, everything is set to “Allow”.
Surely I must be doing something obvious wrong, and there is a way to accomplish what I want to do. Help!
