Was a handy feature, but SUPER dangerous if you got distracted and forgot you were still on Gain on faders
Pan on faders was really handy for fast hard left right panning for guitar solos and stuff.
some colour coding of lights when in this mode could help keep users from error if the lighting system is rgb… noot sure. looks like they are set colours. so blinking lights or something maybe
In this case too, until your suggestion is potentially launched, I would recommend taking a look at the Mixing Station app.
Transforming all faders into gains at the touch of a button and simultaneously bathing everything in a warning red – no problem.
Interesting, thanks… A nice upgrade from the previous QU gen, but definitely not as nice the RGB name strip on the 8 or so year old SQ series.
Fairly torn between QU and SQ, there’s a lot I prefer about the QU with current design ethics/needs, SD card recording, look, etc… But small things like RGB strip on the SQ feel needed, yet I don’t feel entirely upsold on the SQ.
I wonder what kind of visual programmability is available dev side with the monochrome? Could you invert text/background so the text is black and the background is lit? That would be one way to show faders are in mic-pre gain mode if this FR were added.
I can’t ever make any promises if or when feature requests are added, but I can answer the part about visual programmability - the LCD modules are inverted because of the physical display hardware and it isn’t possible to invert them with software.
Speaking personally, I don’t love the idea of gain on faders. It feels dangerous and prone to user error.
I’m sure there’s a clever way/protocol somehow to make it non/less-dangerous whether visually, or, maybe something like it being a button-held function… as soon as the engineer releases the button, it returns to previous/mix mode.
Simple monochromes are great for redundancy, they last forever. Part of me wishes they were LCDs, they have become more dependable/long lasting. There’s just so much more you can do with them in terms of giving users per-channel information - name, colour, pictures, warnings, metering, combinations of these things, etc. The current QU generation would look absolutely slick with LCDs, the monochromes are the only thing that gives it a dated look… 50 year old tech, next to a 2020’s LCD monitor.
Not hating or anything, I’m still likely to pick up a QU. just general consumer feedback, if that counts for anything.
I mis-spoke; what I meant is most of the time that knob does nothing when I turn it.
while the old one on each channel always worked and was visible.
It’s kind of like the dedicated Low-Mid, mid-range, and treble PEQ knobs.
They exist as well and are labeled as dedicated knobs.
However, they usually seem disconnected from the menu system and have no effect unless you happen to be in the right menu page and select the right place on the graph to tell it that by clicking the Low-mid cursor on the LCD I meant to adjust the low-mid mid knob that I’ve been turning. Is there a reason they disconnect the dedicated knobs from working on most pages or selections? Low or mid-PEQ could simply adjust that function for whatever input or item that was selected, vs being Off.
On the new digital board I can specifically select the channel I want to adjust and then… it still does nothing. Once in a while I’ve seen it work so when I get the right item selected in the right submenu of a menu it works.
It’s lots of pages to go through and I haven’t found a Windows version for a QU mixer to get a larger screen working.
“Mixing station” may be an option since that seems more up to date on software.
I don’t understand that.
PAN should always work when a channel is selected that supports panning.
Of course, it won’t work if you’re sending to a mono aux, for example.
Similarly, the 12 tone controls should always work when a corresponding channel is selected.
In addition, the following option might be of interest to you:
