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Hello!
What is typicall Q setting (on Lowmids and Highmids) on analogue mixing consoles, where you can’t change Q setting? Is it same, or close to qu-16 default setting?
Thanks!
Just looking at a few manuals I have:
A&H (Wiz & GL) seem to go for Q=1.8 - (Couldn’t find any figures for my Zed)
Soundcraft (GB4) seem to favour Q=1.5
Midas (Venice) about Q=1.4 (though the stereo line in seems to be about 1)
Another question:
How do you deal with lack of naming per channel on Qu-16? I know naming is coming with 1.5 version, but I am thinking on naming on surface (for example Behringer X32 has small screen on each channel where you can name/colour/picture channel). Do you use normal tape like on analogue consoles, or something more innovative? I was thinking of small magnets, so you could move them from channel to channel, does that sound like a bad idea? Or even to put plastic paper on the place under faders, so I can write channels with special pen and just delete and rewrite channels?
What are your experiences:)
Hello!
How does stereo recording work on Qu-16? Is there any option I could get my recordings louder? After recording I listen it with headphones on computer, but they are quite silent. Can I raise a volume of recordings on console, or I have to raise it in program on computer?
Thanks!
Hey Knga,
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https://community.allen-heath.com/forums/topic/qu2416-scribble-strips
Desk recordings from digital desks will almost always sound quite quiet as, assuming you use sensible gain structure, you’ll be peaking at around -12dBfs. Commercial recordings peak right at 0dBfs and are compressed to within an inch of their life (and sometimes beyond!) and so will always sound massively louder. Just take your recording in to your DAW of choice, apply a little compression / limiting if necessary and turn it up until it’s peaking just below 0dBfs.
Yesterday I recorded multitrack of my band playing one song, because we wanted to hear how it sounds in FOH and make some eq adjustments and so on. I played back multitrack recording, but levels were really high, system was cliping, I had to reduce volume a lot (when playing normal, everything was ok). What do I have to do, to hear as similar sound we play as possible? So I can adjust everything with Ipad app, when walking in FOH.
Thanks!
did you record it with the qu-drive or with USB-B Port to a computer? reason could be too high gain on the console or in combination with USB-B Port recording that in your recording software the volumes are too high!
I recorded it with Qu-drive, and played back recording.
Have You seen the new droid based app for Qus?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=phone.TouchAndMix
Hello!
I have question.
I will be using 2x passive satelites + 2x passive subwoofers, with 2 amps and no external crossover. How do I split signal with Qu-16 (Highpass / lowpass), and how would I make Mono out (for subwoofers) to be controlled with same master fader as LR?
Or what other options are there with this setup?
Thanks!
Unfortunately, the simple answer is that you can’t do either or these things. As far as As far as I know, none of the lower cost digital desks have crossover functions yet, though I’m sure that is a feature that will be included in the future.
It is tending to become a built in feature in some amps these days, and does not seem to add an enormous amount to their cost.
As I assume you will already have amps though, I would look for a simple crossover or speaker management unit that performs both these tasks, and mount it with the amps. That means you can use your speaker system with other sources, not just your QU, which is bound to be useful at times.
Yesterday I worked with x32 and it has some really nice Routing options. High pass stereo out at 100 Hz, and Low pass Sub mono out at 100 Hz (using Matrix) and route them to the same LR fader - not same as crossover, but useful. Can we expect High/Low pass on mixes in future on Qu-16?
You’ve said it: That’s not a crossover. You likely won’t get a flat system response with such a setup and I expect some phase issues as well. There’s another thread on this with various plots showing the issues.
I’ve done it with other systems, it’s not recommended.
Yup. Basically going to mess up your sound. Get a real cross-over. Even an inexpensive used analog unit for $25.00 is going to be better than the HPF/LPF found in your “all-in-one” digital mixers.
Thank you for help!
I know some guys doing things like that with X32. I guess they are wrong. Thankfully I have found Behringer crossover in garage, it should do the job.
One more question. I have bass guitar and it is used for 2 different types of music in one night. Is it possible to plug it in channel 1, but have processing on ch 1 AND 2, so I can have different processing for the same instrument, to use it separately? Or just get a splitter cable?
They are not wrong because they are not using HPF/LPF: they are using the buit-in crossover function which allows the user to choose any of the 3common filter types and up to a 24dB/octave slope. Qu does not offer this.
And yes, go with a hard-wired XLR split to feed the bass to two channels for separate processing. Or set up the two and save them both as user pre-sets. That way you don’t burn a channel and can still switch between the two settings with a button push or two.
If you have a stagebox then the bass can be patched to two channels, or you could use scenes to change he settings…