thanks, garyh, that makes sense, I remember seeing that direct out pick-off option choice, now I know a use for it.
but, now I see a situation where if you will only play the Qu-drive back thru the Qu-16, it’s fine, but if you intend to use the tracks in a DAW, than you would probably want to move the pick point and print the processing you had when you were monitoring your recording, or else you will have to recreate all the processing in the DAW. and then you can’t really play those track through the Qu-16 or you will get double processing — (you could bypass the processing but then you wouldn’t be able to adjust the sound). do I get this correctly?
another issue has occurred to me and that is if I’m using compression to increase the signal level on recording, but the recorded tracks don’t print it, that’s kind of an odd situation — I have an uncompressed recording that I spent a lot of time optimizing the compression for to make it sound good. if the configuration of the board has changed, my playback is going to sound bad. is this an issue for people? just trying to understand the working philosophy here.
really appreciate the help.