Mute Group

Most professional mixing boards provide some method of muting individual channels and/or subgroups. An extension of this feature is the mute group, which allows the user to set up master mute buttons that will enable the mute function on specific groups of channels. For example, the user could have the board set up so that pressing “Mute Group” #1 causes the background vocal mic channels, rack tom channels, horn mic channels, and the banjo mic channel to mute. This is much more convenient (and faster) than hunting down each of those items and muting them one by one. And since they are surely routed through different subgroup paths in the mixer this is the only convenient way to get to them all at once. Effective use of mute groups gives a sound engineer a basic level of automation when mixing, which paves the way for more attention to more important matters.