I find de-essers to be fairly essential in low-volume HoW environments, and I very frequently need more than 6 channels (usually 8), but the Qu6 only has 6 FX engines and 2-3 are always needed for reverb/delay. This basically means I have to us De-Essers as a bus processing effect (way too far down the chain) or place them individually on the 2-3 most egregious channels. I’ve noticed that I can put a valve preamp on every channel in the source block, and I think it would be a very nice feature to use the de-esser at the beginning of the chain in the same position. De-essers are great tools, but they don’t work well if you have to gang the vocals together.
+1 for the use of the word “egregious”. 
As a non-native-English-speaker, I googled “HoW environments” but couldn’t find anything relevant.
What does that mean, please?
“Houses of Worship” - ie churches
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Ah - thank you! . . .
I wholeheartedly agree!
I purchased the De-Esser for the Qu7 only to learn it wasn’t an insert. I am stuck picking a few effects slots to tame a vocal and it becomes locked to that channel as an insert That is good, but it falls way short. I have 6 vocal channels.
Lets go A&H!!! While you are at, multiple inserts on channels would be awesome!
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this is similar on the Avantis (and prob dLive too), althought they both have more FX slots available of course.
I’ve got four FX slots dedicated to DeEssing on our Avantis, since the are none available as inserts. Of course, you could go oldschool and set up a compressor as a DeEsser and/or bus your vocals to DeEss them as a whole.
That said, it would be cool if either of the dynamics slots had a dedicated DeEsser as an option.
+1 always.
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You can always just pop the de-esser on a group instead of a single channel!
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Agreed. In the meantime, you can use the channel compressor with sidechain set up around 4k or so.
The mixture of male and female vocals, the individual sibulence, plus the impact of timing between them, says no to a group compressor, I need an insert.
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Agree, there should be stand alone desser that can be enraged on any channel you want without having to use use limited fx blocks. Even the touchmix 16 (has its own sigificant deficiencies) from 2014 but had deessers. Even if not the perfect de-sseer having it available on any channel made sense. Digital mixers have come a long way since 2014 and if anything it seems to like it should be even easier to implement that feature on newer digital mixers where it likely would be even better.
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The discontinued iLive has Deesser on individual inputs.
I’m not sure of the relevance to the topic at hand.
The iLive was the “flagship” level offering from A&H at the time. The QU certainly is not A&H current flagship level offering, nor has it ever been the flagship level offering. If you are expecting the QU to have flagship level features, you are going to be disappointed with nearly every function/feature of the QU because none of them are “flagship level” in scope or flexibility. This is by design and it is not an oversight on A&H part.
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With all due respect, I am not so sure the T series was considered a flagship system.
I understand your point to a certain degree, but it’s just a filter. We may as well not have standard compressors and gates included in the input chain either for a console at that price. UI Soundcraft includes it, that is an example.
Maybe my comment by using a product line with a short life cycle was not a good example, but there are other systems that included it at the time that were not considered “flagship”.