@brian: I have no clue what you mean by “even/uneven number of matrixes”. Could you explain a bit more? As far as I know, we have 3 Matrixes, which is uneven??
Well first off, I didn’t pay attention to the fact that this was in the SQ forum (I typically view new posts only). That’s my fault. Although my experience is mainly related to Avantis and DLive systems, it is semi-relevant to the SQ series as well. With the Avantis and DLive systems which allows user selected buss types, you cannot have a odd number of busses chosen for any mix type. Look at my example again….. if you only need 3 mono groups and 3 mono auxes, the system actually requires that you use 4 mono busses in each buss type because it won’t allow an “odd” number of mono busses for any given buss type. In this example, the system will require you use 4 mono group busses and 4 mono aux busses. This is the case even when your total mono busses adds up to an even number over all as in my example: 3+3 is only 6 busses (an even number), but the system requires you use 4+4 using 8 busses with 2 mono busses simply being wasted.
With the SQ series, it is semi-related because you cannot split a “stereo” matrix into two mono matrix. So while you can have three mono matrixes, it actually uses all three stereo matrix. You cannot have 6 mono matrix for example even though there are technically 6 unique audio paths being used in a 3 stereo matrix setup.
