Significant issues in the CQ 20
1.Having monitor senses that are pre-Fader and Post EQ means that all the musicians in the band are interfered with by the front of house Sound Man‘s EQ modifications. Any changes to any instruments during a performance are reflected back into the monitors of all the musicians whereby their sound is obscured by another’s instrument sound change of equalization. This is more detrimental than productive. The monitor sends fader need to be independent of the FOH EQ.
- scene saving
Scene saving is a great benefit to recall the balance and settings of the mixer. But if that mixer is being used venue to venue, then the master channel needs to be excluded from the scene change. If you recall a scene in a new venue and its master is it a particular volume and its EQ was set for a different venue, the scene becomes useless because it conflicts and destroys the current venue main output setting. The solution to that would be a “safe“ mode for the master channel.
- Request for the scene saving feature would be the ability to edit the scene list sequence so that a set list could be created for the scenes in that each song could be set as a scene and recalled during the performance in the sequence that the band is playing.
- These three changes would perfect the CQ 20 B for live mixing as it is an amazing unit almost.