Patent ID: 8611562

Claim:
A sound mixing console, comprising: a plurality of sound signal input channels; an input channel fader control section having a plurality of input channel faders that are configured to be selectively coupled to respective ones of a plurality of sound signal input channels; a master section having a plurality of control group faders, each control group fader configured to collectively control a different selected group of sound signal input channels; a first plurality of switches, each switch associated with a respective one of the control group faders and configured to facilitate user selection of a group of sound signal input channels to be associated with a respective one of the control group faders; and a second plurality of switches configured to enable a user to selectively electrically couple the sound signal input channels of a respective selected one of the plurality of control group faders to respective input channel faders to permit individual adjustment of the sound signals of the input channels of the selected one of the plurality of control group faders, the number of input channel faders is less than the number of sound signal input channels and no fixed one-to-one relationship exists between the input channel faders and the sound signal input channels.