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It sounds as though whatever signal you are sending to the buss compressor is also being sent directly to the mains output too. Make sure you aren’t sending the desired signal to both the mix output feeding the compressor and the mains output. Only the return signal from the external buss compressor should be sent to your mains output.
Is the compressor on the mix output not to your liking?

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This is excellent news. I’ll download it right now!

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If you have your monitor mix sends set to Pre EQ on a particular channel does that mean that makeup gain in the compressor does or does not affect the level of that channel in the mix? If not, then makeup gain on the channel is a good tool to use for these situations.
If it does affect the level of all mixes then perhaps a second microphone standing by would be a solution (that is if you can’t split the input onto two channel strips, as was wisely suggested).

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+1

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“Well enough”?
While far from ideal, it won’t hurt the subwoofer or the amp.

[airickessParticipant]

I recently purchased an AB1608. I’ve used it on two jobs and it has performed flawlessly. I’m running firmware 1.71 on my Qu16.

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This is an answer to a similar question concerning the Qu16 and Tracks Live in the Reviews section of the Tracks Live software on the Waves site –
“Hi Keith, Core Audio (Mac) is supported via USB B on the console. However, if you want to connect this console to a PC, you will need the additional ASIO Driver installer from the A&H QU Software Page.”

Also, check out the Tracks Live System Requirements –

System Requirements

Mac OS

CPU
i5 or higher

RAM
8 GB

Operating System
10.9.5 or higher

Screen Resolution
1024×768

ASIO/ Core Audio compatible audio interface

Windows

CPU
Intel i5 or higher

RAM
8 GB

Operating System
Windows 7 64 bit / Windows 8.1 64 bit

Screen Resolution
1024×768

ASIO/ Core Audio compatible audio interface

This might point you in the right direction.

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Mark, I’m not sure the theory is correct, based on my experience with this issue. I was indoors in a closed booth with the temperature consistent. The mixer was on its own table (no one and no other gear save for a laptop on the table) and no one was walking around the booth to create any vibrations of any sort. I wasn’t even touching the table or the mixer at the time. The console was just sitting there and there was only one channel with audio activity happening at that moment.
The faders did not creep down, but rather they slammed down very quickly as though I had changed layers. They did not restore themselves either.
I’m glad A&H are aware of this and are working towards a solution. I find the interesting part of this particular scenario is that the bug was found primarily due to the layer layout of the Qu 16. Because the stereo busses are on the second layer and basically inaccessible for crossfades, when an operator needs to bring up a mic at the same time as fading down playback it has made users link faders on the top layer to patch in there stereo inputs and have access to the faders without changing layers. If the stereo busses were on the top fader I doubt this issue would have been discovered as quickly as it has been.
Has anyone out there had this issue on a custom layer? If not, then I’m going to create a basic custom layer template for my small corporate gigs, putting the stereo inputs on one fader, thus eliminating linked faders, to see if it is a work-around for this issue.

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[XAP]Bob, based on the other posts in this and other threads, I’m beginning to suspect that it might indeed have something to do with linked faders. That seems to be the common denominator in the cases.

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dhak, what do you mean by a “cold boot”?

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This happened once to me as well on my Qu 16. Two linked faders went suddenly from unity to -inf. No scenes involved, no WiFi, IPad or networking hooked up, no D-Snake hooked up. The channels weren’t even passing audio at the time. This happened with two linked faders on the top layer. Firmware version 1.7. As I stated earlier, it’s only happened once, and not at all since v1.71.

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While I do not like to dredge up older posts I do want to say that I have also experienced a similar issue with linked channels on my Qu 16. I was on a job in April and had channels 9 and 10 linked fully. While I was sitting there, not even touching the console, the two channel faders went from unity gain to -inf. The channels in question were not passing audio at the time and there were no scenes created. This is with firmware v1.7 installed.

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