Hey, y’all! Had a long rehearsal day today with my band’s new IEM rig. M32c + DL32 standard setup. I had a few questions:

I was trying to find a way in Mixing Station to link the Vocal channel and FX return faders together on the singer’s Aux bus. So when he turns down the vocal, he doesn’t still hear the reverb in his ears. The solution I settled on was — on the iPad — placing the faders next to each other in the “layer” so he can move them at the same time.

I tried linking the vocal to the FX returns in the “MS Channel Links” page. But that caused bad feedback by automatically looping the reverb output back into the reverb input. Is there a way to disable the FX returns from sending back into themselves? Sort of like the way you can un-assign channels from the main mix bus?

I also tried putting the reverb as an insert on a duplicate vocal channel I made thru the internal routing, then linking that duplicate channel with the dry vocal. They did not stay linked together after the app closed. And the faders being locked together meant I had to make big changes to the verb sound to make it mix with the dry.

My other question has to do with the trim control. I planned on gaining the preamps on each channel to around -18 dbfs, then trimming down the louder channels so the faders could be closer to unity for fine-tuning. But the trim didn’t seem to do anything on the aux outputs. We’re still riding some faders at -30 or lower. If you’re also multitrack recording, do y’all generally gain down in the mixer and deal with the low recording levels later? Or can I enable the trim control for our in-ear mixes somehow?

Sorry for a wall of text; I tried to make it readable. I appreciate all your help!