It would be great if you could do feedback assistant like in CQ for SQ, it could be used instead of GEQ.
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Would love to see the SQ finished and get a major update. +1 on this and getting a major update soon.
Yes, Feedback assistant would be the great option to get add it in the SQ Series consoles.
why?
This would be fantastic.
Especially if it were possible to use it as an insert on each input.
The GEQs have fixed frequency sliders so if there’s feedback between 2 sliders you have to cut a lot more good sound out than with adjustable frequency. It also gets cut out of all the other inputs to that geq
The adjustable frequencies on the PEQs are great but there’s only 4 and for feedback they could be narrower. Ok you can Send to a mix and get another 4 but then it’s either not on the input or you run out of auxes pretty quick.
Even without the automatic function If you could have an 8 band peq with ultra narrow cuts as an insert on the inputs capable of operating at the same time as the standard 4 band peq that would be excellent.
You could call it the surgical input feedback eq
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+1. Implement like in CQ.
The feedback system discussion has been an ongoing debate for more than 20 years and as a long term practitioner of various devices to quell destructive looping (Feedback), I have experienced mixed success. Without question the best was the “SMAART JR.” that was available with my QU16: unfortunately the license expense was not acceptable for A&H to continue deploying this very simple, effective protocol. This is what I know;
- Filtering out obtrusive portions of the sonic field is in of itself a destructive process. Any way you cut it there is a direct relationship between the number of filters set and the amount of sonic field that is erased!
- The SMAART protocol is based on establishing a max of 4 customized PEQ filters. Beyond this application, external re-arrangements of stage monitoring and speaker stacks will need to be made.
- One of the prime culprits is un-attended (open) mics and to that end various automated features to kill open mics are available with an SQ5.
There is a pragmatical reality of dealing with the ultra important initial placement of wedges, speaker stacks and mics. An in depth investment of time studying the various elements involved in room acoustical awareness and related sonic source placement factors is the best answer, not massive filtering!
Hugh
Thats Not Always possible.
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+1. I’d pay extra for any feedback suppression filtering that was available. It is not always possible to ring out a system in advance when playing live venues.
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Yes, that would be very helpful. If that is not possible, it would also be very helpful to add an expander function to the gate. This is also a good way to counteract the feedback.
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use mix station it has an assistant mode that works pretty well for certain situations.
I used it on a vocal group on tour at various large venues in time pinches and it worked out great for me otherwise I recommend putting dynamic eq on the group for vocals if that’s what you need it for.
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I’ve used the feedback killer in the QSC Touchmix and it works great.
Newly released QU v2 got feedback assistant, SQ should have the processing capability also to have this.
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Ya, it’s kind of a no brainer. Not adding the features you have on the lesser boards is a bad look at this point. Especially that we know it can run it.
Came here to say this! As some who loves SQ and trains users on them, this is something that I’m hearing a lot of requests for. Moreover, a lot of the people I hear asking are the kinds of people who aren’t going to go on a forum (church volunteers, IT directors at companies who also have to handle AV, weekend warriors, etc).
An update with the feedback (and maybe gain assistant?) would be SO helpful for those kinds of people!
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I’m less interested in gain assistant than the FBA. FBA is FAB (so long as you freeze it when set and are careful about how deep, wide and many you allow).
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