How to add main mix to aux for monitoring in CQ4YOU app?

[PeterG]

Hi there, we are a two-men band; 2 vocs + 2 guitars, and we would like to set up aux 1 and 2 to have a separate personal monitor each. And were we can hear our respective voc+guitar and also the main mix so we can control the volumes of voc, guitar and main mix in the monitor via the CQ4YOU app.
How can we re-route the main output mix (the exact signal sent to our pa system!) into the mixer for monitoring?
Thank you very much for your help, very much appreciated,

Peter

[SQuser]

This is probably not provided for in the hardware – and therefore not possible via remote control.
But as a 2-man-band you certainly still have inputs and outputs left, so you could possibly solve it externally.
So you could create the same main mix (AFL) on one of the 6 outputs and patch it back to an input via cable.
You could then mix this into your auxes via PFL (with the channel fader is closed).
(Theoretically, one of the phone outputs could also be used as an output with the main mix in order to get back to an input via a special (Stereo to Mono) cable.)

[PeterG]

Great, plain and simple! Thanks a lot for your help and have a great day. Peter

[Dor Seidel Thom]

Yes, we all miss various routing options, but for a two-man band
I find the procedure almost too complicated. 50% of the main signal is your own voice and your guitar anyway.
Quietly mix in your colleague’s two channels, and you’re done.

Rx Thomas

[Smilzo]

<So you could create the same main mix (AFL) on one of the 6 outputs and patch it back to an input via cable.
You could then mix this into your auxes via PFL (with the channel fader is closed).>

AD/DA conversions could lead to phase problem and latency, in DAW record you can realign, live you can’t.

[PeterG]

I am also doing the main mix and we walk around wireless while singing and playing; I check the front pa from time to time by ear (briefly taking out my in-ear monitors) and I check the main mix through my in-ears because I use the final mix as monitor. This is not ideal since I barely hear my second voc sot using the QC4YOU app would solve that if I have the main mix on one channel, my voc and guitar on the other two channels.
The ideal situation would be to have a dedicated front mix sound man in the house, I realise that, but it would hurt our budget 🙂
It would also free up my hands to focus only on the music and not the mix and sound problem solving.
It’s the way it is…

[PeterG]

Thank you for your input; that indeed would be another problem… We’ll check it out!

[Headfirst7491]

what i do is

open mixing station
copy the main mix to the aux
assign your channel to the me channel in the cq4you app
assign everything else to another channel
in this way the fader in the cq4you act as a vca and you can turn up and down yourself and the rest of the band separately

would be nice if the cq could copy a mix to an aux

[PeterG]

Thank you for your help but in this way I get a static screenshot from the mix and if I want to change something in the live mix it doesn’t update in my monitoring.

[PeterG]

None of the above worked!
This CQ18T has been a very frustrating experience up till now, and I regret buying it…. sigh…

We don’t ask very complicated things:
How to set up the CQ4YOU on an aux 1 and 2 for two voices and two guitars:
CQ4YOU first musician = AUX 1: Voc1 + Git 1 + main mix
CQ4YOU second musician = AUX 2: Voc2 + Git 2 + main mix

We spent a very frustrating two days trying to get it done but didn’t succeed.
The good ‘ol days of the Yamaha Promix are long gone; back then you new what was happening with your sound.
Furthermore, the latest manual is 1.2.0 while the firmware is updated to 1.2.2 and things don’t match here.

Please help or get us an offer to buy an almost brand new CQ18T….. and I never ever want to see that terrible thing again 🙁

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