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2015/12/04 at 5:50 pm #52507
I didn’t see this posted in the thread so I thought I’d add that, if your iPad updated to 1.81, the 1.80 that’s on the mixer will still work. Just something to consider if you haven’t upgraded and have an important gig this weekend or your mixer is buried in a trailer. Both of which were my situation. I just dug it out and confirmed. I updated anyway, but would have felt foolish had something gone wrong considering I have to leave in 3 hours for a corporate party.
2015/04/07 at 3:21 pm #46615My band does a lot of weddings so the ducking feature is nice for announcements. That said, I found it an odd addition that they spent a lot of time on for such a specific thing that will really only get used to duck announcements. With the limited amount of adjustments and practical application for live mixing (ducking bass on kick hits for hip-hop or dance for example), I just don’t get it.
I would much rather of seen additional effects and processing – like a multi-band compressor or high pass filters on the aux sends, which is a curious omission. Or how about a variable slope on the HPFs.
2014/12/24 at 7:41 pm #44128LOL… Yeah, my bad, forgot about that. On my Presonus SL (no flying faders) I did this. The drummer threw a towel across the stage once during setup while mp3’s were playing and happened to hit the master fader perfectly. That’s when I put tape over it.
2014/12/24 at 3:20 pm #44120Another vote for the Sandisk Extreme. I’ve been using for several months now. There’s no reason to use anything else, especially now that the price has dropped from $65 to $35. It’s also about 4X faster transferring to my laptop than the external hard disk I was using.
2014/12/24 at 1:58 pm #44118FWIW, if you’re just looking not to bump the fader past a certain point, a piece of gaff tape across the main fader track works great.
2014/09/10 at 3:45 pm #41512I rarely remember and have had no issues. It boots up fine and seemingly back to the state in which I left it previously. My guess is the board “auto-saves” settings every few minutes and shutdown process is there to manually save between auto-saves.
2014/07/06 at 12:47 pm #40625Thanks, but I’m “just” singing, running sound. Sorry if unclear earlier. I was just commenting that the lead vocal and bass on recordings is the most difficult to me. I’m still not 100% happy with the vocal EQ on this, but not sure I can do better within the mixer itself. It’s still a bit harsh. It works well live because it cuts through. On the recording though it’s not ideal. I’d be better with a 31 band on the channel for mixing it down.
It would be nice if A&H added some other processing to the FX section so it could be assigned to a channel. I’d also LOVE a multi-band compressor. That would be a great way to kill some of the harshness when the lead vocal gets loud. It would also be nice on keys where we’re using 40+ patches a night.
2014/07/05 at 5:03 pm #40597No offense taken. I’m 45 so I too remember when it came out. As for saving the settings. Yes, that’s the intention. I like to get the channel strips set in the comfort of my garage then just use the FOH EQ for the gigs. If it sounds good on a recording with the FOH flat, you’ve got it right. Then it’s just “season to taste” with the main EQ at the gig. I do compress the FOH too with a 1.2 – 1.4 ratio and a threshold setting that compresses 3-6 db overall. It glues things together a bit, but still lets the snare pop through. Any more than that and things get mushy and the snare loses it’s pop.
2014/07/05 at 4:35 pm #40595Thanks, but it’s intended to sound like it does. Of the 100 songs in our play list it’s the only one we don’t do like the original. It’s not an “every show” kind of tune. It’s more for bars and we wouldn’t play it at a wedding. It’s just a fun departure that we call out in our shows and it always gets big smiles and applause.
Here’s what it’s based off of (and it’s the Hormonauts, not the Argonauts, which I said earlier) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1olWdQ2TMsg
2014/07/05 at 4:00 am #40589Thanks. Yes, that was just a cut from the first set of a live show in someone’s back yard for a surprise birthday party we were hired for. I used Audacity for the same reason as mixing down in the Qu-16. It’s fast and easy. If I put it in Reaper, Garage Band, or Studio One, I find I play around with it for hours, often giving up, or ending up with a product worse than if I just go bare bones and do it with the mixer.
I mix with the Qu pretty much every weekend, but we mix from the stage so I don’t really get the time to really work on EQ and compression skills until post show. That recording is EQ’d with channel strips only and the main buss EQ flat. So for live work I don’t really need to mess with the channel strips and just need to use the FOH EQ for the room.
Sometimes it takes me a couple of tries because I’ll mix it down with headphones in the garage (can’t get the mixer in the house as it’s racked) and then run the file upstairs to see what it sounds like on my studio monitors. I’ve really been trying to work on the lead vocal EQ, that’s me signing, and bass guitar EQ, and am getting happier with both.
Lastly, I’ve found I’ve had better luck NOT using my studio headphones when mixing down. Instead I use the headphones I wear at work, which are decent, but small portable type and not studio phones. It doesn’t matter that they aren’t flat. They are what I’m used to so when I mix down the reference I have is what I’m used to hearing other pre-recorded music sound like.
2014/05/19 at 12:45 am #39815You can easily to what you’re asking. Just use the 2 track out. It doesn’t even have to be a fancy setup. Below was my first show with the mixer and first attempt at mixing from within the mixer back into my macbook using an insert cable (Y cable) that has 1/4″ connections to the 2 track out and 1/8″ input into the laptop. All processing done from within the mixer.
2014/05/19 at 12:36 am #39814I’ll concede it’s not a bad idea, but certainly not critical. I’ve been using digital mixers for 50 shows a year since January of 2009 and never had a problem. As mentioned, if the system goes down, almost always, the whole PA system is going with it. Besides that, the drum module, guitar processors, vocal processor, stage lighting, synths, etc, will all have to reboot. So any power interruption will interrupt the show.
2014/04/23 at 12:30 pm #39272Doh! Thanks.
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