Is there a way to link track mutes to send mutes?

[Ed Douglas]

Hi all,
Doing some IMAX mixing with their proprietary speaker 6 (centre high), and I pan from the centre chan up to centre high with a pre fader send. My difficulty is that to work on additional sends to the top speaker after I have done a previous one, I need to mute the other sends even if their respective tracks are muted. I would be helpful just to mute the tracks I don't want to hear, and have their sends to the top speaker muted as well.

Any ideas? Is this possible?

TIA

Ed

[Ryan Young]

Don't use a pre-fader level in your send? Am I understanding your setup correctly?

edit:
I just set it up and I see the issue now... I'm trying to brainstorm an easier fix.

[Ed Douglas]

Thanks Ryan.

Yes, I do need to use the send as a pf, otherwise I can't "pan" seamlessly to centre high. To clarify, I need to pull down the volume on the main track while increasing the send to centre high.

Thanks for looking into this.

E.

[Ryan Young]

You know, I think I would just duplicate the narration or dialog onto 2 tracks and dedicate one to center high by muting the other regions (and vice versa for the other center). I hope someone else has better experience with this to help you.

[Ed Douglas]

Thanks Ryan.

Generally the narration stays in the centre chan.... its the 190 source FX tracks going out 14 5.1 busses, any one of those source track may need to be rolled to or from the top speaker depending on the needs of the moment. I don't have enough tracks to dupe each source track in the event of the need to go to the top, otherwise, that would work.

Cheers.

E.

[flommer]

I'm not going to pretend to understand the complexities of your situation, but it did remind me of another problem I tried to figure out for a different user...

If you first bus your PFL send to an aux, then group the aux with the original track, the aux will follow the mutes that you make on the original.

I guess the main problem is all the busses this might use? If you get it set up you could then pretty much hide the auxes and forget about them. It just basically gives you another point in the signal chain to control level/mute/pan etc.. I'm pretty sure you would want the group to not link the faders?

[Norad155]

Maybe don't assign an output to your track, and just use 2 sends... then you will have independent control over each level.

Or I am possibly oversimplifying this... I haven't mixed in this configuration before.