bonjour, comment régler la QU-5 pour une guitare électrique et une basse .
merci beaucoup.
Connect the instruments to the QU, patch the inputs to a channel, adjust the pre-amp gain and then setup your EQ, gate and/or compressor to suit.
There are plenty of online videos to help, and the block diagram of the QU (once you understand it) will inform you of all the possibilities.
Dave
Guitars generally have unbalanced 1/4” jack outputs.
The QU can accept either 1/4” jack or XLR microphone inputs.
At our Church we always use balanced XLR inputs to the mixer desk, and use passive DI boxes (as close to the guitars as we can) to convert from the 1/4” unbalanced signal to the balanced XLR microphone level for feeding to the mixer desk.
This makes the “rules” easy to understand: an XLR microphone plugs directly into the stage box. A 1/4” jack goes through a DI box.
Of course, DI boxes are not cheap, so it is up to you which option you choose. Just don’t plug a guitar output directly into the mixer desks XLR input!
The advantage of the balanced XLR over a non-balanced signal is less noise or the potential for a ground loop.
Dave
Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse en fait ma question était plus technique sur le fond .
Nous avons une guitare électrique et une basse, la guitare électrique passe par un boîtier , Hotone Ampero II , et la basse par une boîte DI active.
Pour les deux guitares électriques et basses faut-il utiliser les réglages sur les tranches de la table de mixage QU-5 du style préampli avec tous les réglages possibles ou pas ? nous avons fait des essais en essayant d’utiliser quelques préréglages proposés sur les préampli ou autre la perception est que le son est en saturation…
Existe-t-il des préréglages moyen sur la QU-5 par rapport à la guitare électrique et la basse qui conviendrait ?
Merci beaucoup pour votre aide
Didier
Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse en fait ma question était plus technique sur le fond .
Nous avons une guitare électrique et une basse, la guitare électrique passe par un boîtier , Hotone Ampero II , et la basse par une boîte DI active.
Pour les deux guitares électriques et basses faut-il utiliser les réglages sur les tranches de la table de mixage QU-5 du style préampli avec tous les réglages possibles ou pas ? nous avons fait des essais en essayant d’utiliser quelques préréglages proposés sur les préampli ou autre la perception est que le son est en saturation…
Existe-t-il des préréglages moyen sur la QU-5 par rapport à la guitare électrique et la basse qui conviendrait ?
Merci beaucoup pour votre aide
Didier
Posting in English would help me. My French is non existent!
If something is distorted, it sounds as though there is a mismatch between your instrument equipment and the input of the QU desk (causing clipping).
Which input ype on the QU desk are you using (XLR or 1/4”) and can you see the input stage overloading or not?
Dave
Thank you very much for your reply. Actually, my question was more technical.
We have an electric guitar and a bass. The electric guitar goes through a Hotone Ampero II, and the bass through an active DI box. For both electric guitars and bass, should we use the preamp channel strips on the QU-5 mixer with all the available settings, or not? We've tried some of the presets offered on the preamps and other things, but the sound is distorted. Are there any medium presets on the QU-5 that would be suitable for electric guitar and bass?
Thank you very much for your help.
Didier
Thanks for the English post.
At our Church we have both electric and acoustic guitarists that just turn up and plug their instruments directly into our DI boxes. No guitar effects, no nothing. I have ‘trained them’ now to set their gain and tone knobs to mid. scale, and I am responsible (at the mixer desk) for everything else.
Then we have electric and acoustic guitarists that turn up with programmable effects peddles. These guys and gals are more professional, and I tend to let them be responsible for their own sound.
However, I generally use the HPF and EQ settings to filter out frequencies above and below their instrument can generate as a general rule.
Our electric lead guitar has a narrow frequency where I get complaints from the ‘older folk’ with hearing aids. I apply a little bit of EQ cut at this frequency to take that out, and that makes everyone happy.
Our acoustic guitar sometimes needs a little boost in the mid range for him/her to stand out. Again, I do that using my EQ as I think fit.
On the strips, I still leave the gate, EQ and compressor effects ‘in’, I just set the controls to ‘do nothing’ if I don’t want the effect and I leave it to their magic boxes (especially the compressor). However, if I am forced to take matters into my own hands, I can. Having to remember to turn the effect ON is something else I could do without remembering.
If you are hearing distortion, it is almost certainly something to do with your gain structure.
The only distortion I have ever heard from our kit was when the lead electric guitar had accidentally switched a distortion/overdrive effect into his equipment for a song! I was hunting around for what I had done wrong, only for him to apologise! Fortunately, it was during the pre-service practice.
I probably still haven’t answered your question. I think what I am getting at is that there is no hard and fast rule.
Dave
Thank you so much, it’s very kind of you to reply, it does clarify
things a little bit.
Didier
No problem.
Please feel free to ask anything.
Dave