Is there a way to use one submaster as a master for another sub (or group of subs)? I’m doing a couple of music shows in the coming months. One show will be a tribute band so I’ll know the songs and the order beforehand allowing me to build a cue stack. I’d like to add highlights with bump buttons rather than writing a cue for each highlight. My plan was to put the intensity control for different banks of lights on submasters and use the bump buttons when I wanted a little emphases. The problem is I don’t want all the sources to go to full on the bumps. I have one bank of Colorforce strips in particular that are pointed at the audience. They normally run at 10% or 15% and bumping them to 40% or 50% would be plenty.
My thought was to master one submaster with another one. Then run the master to say 40% and tap the bump button on the submaster it controlled to get a flash at the level I want. I don’t want this to affect the output from the cues (like a inhibited sub). I’m also pixel mapping the striplights if that make a difference (virtual media server with the data stored in the cues).
So the question is, can you master a submaster with another submaster and if so how do I do it?
Thanks in advance.
Peter