As well as being a full-time musician I also do some part time PA hire were possible in venues of all sizes, my colleague who I do this other role with uses an X32, keep trying to get him to move over to the QU, but so far I haven’t managed to persuade him. I have tried to get on with the X32 iPad app to do monitors whilst my colleague sits at FOH, but I am not a fan of the X32’s workflow and just find it slow and clunky, using the app you cannot just swipe left or right as per QU-pad, you have to physically tap each individual group of 8 channels to be able to work on them. A lot slower in my opinion.
So what we have done is bought two passive 8 channel mic splitters and sent one signal to the X32 at FOH and the other sends into my QU-SB for me to do monitors, this setup works really well, it leaves my mate to concentrate solely on FOH and leaves me to get all those on stage the monitor mixes they desire. The only downside is the extra cabling that is needed for this to work.
The other problem I was finding and one that pushed me in the direction we are now heading in, was, my mate at FOH seemed to be running his channel gains quite conservatively which gave me problems at the stage end as I could never get enough volume out of the wedges for the performers, or for those that like a loud monitor. Due to gain stage sharing this was causing all manner of grief for me, but now by using my QU-SB I can get the monitors as loud as the performer wants, or within reason before feedback.
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