Hello
i do corporate AV and one feature that would be amazing would be the ability to have a side chain or ducker on a music channel from a microphone. It never fail, in the wild you are playing back ground music over a meal or break ( and the AV tech needs those from time to time) and someone comes up to the mic to make an announcement. it would be amazing for the music to reduce while the speaking and then ramp up when they stop, it doesn’t have to be on all channels, just a couple.
Thank you for taking my suggestion, let me know if you have any questions.
Actually Qu range also has ducker, so CQ is only range without, if we keep asking it could happen. Bearing in mind how many improvements have been added in V1.2
+1 for a ducking function, as I also want to talk over a playback on AV shows
In principle, you could use the AMM feature to build a ducking function.
The most universal approach would be to add a sidechain to the compressor and the gate
+1 Yes, but probably it would be better to add sidechain to compressor and gate. Then you can even do more, than only ducker. Open new “sidechain”-request.
The coding work would be a bit more complex as the data input for which channels would be side chained would need to be input manually for any algorithm to use as the mixer can’t know which instrument / mic is plugged into to each channel. This more complex coding may be a differentiation point between the lower and higher priced mixers in their ranges as indicated by “highflyers 1953” response above.
AMM use might be a possible as all channels are identified as Mic for its algorithm but you could use a DI to attenuate any audio input to Mic level hence “bassman74” comment.
Yes it does seem like a hell of an omission for a mixer at this end of the market where such a thing is more likely to be needed than, say, with an SQ or above.
+1 for sidechain compression. I know a couple of bands opting for other brands because this otherwise great mixer is missing what should be a very basic feature nowadays in a powerful digital system such as this one.
+1 here for the Side chain and the Ducker!
Would be an amazing improvement for the CQ product line if we are able to create side chain compression, or dynamic equalization (in case we need to open some space within certain range of frequencies). This means that we’ll need to have a dynamic equalizer.
For the ducked delay and reverb, we’ll need to be able to create per instrument FX channels.
Most often when I perform live with my band we are using Mono setup for restaurants and bar & dinner places, or spaces where the Stereo setup won’t work. In such cases the side chain compression / dynamic equalization could save the day.
I hope the team would make those important features available for those of us, who use their CQ line products!
I would like to bring to the team’s attention two plugins that could be taken as a good example for what I’m having in mind when I was talking about Side-chain dynamic EQs:
Would be really great if we could have a combination of both in an insertable 8-band dynamic EQ. This would be a game changer, life saver…. improvement for mono and stereo scenarios.
Another good improvement will be an 8-band native PEQ. It will provide far more control.
