[BillyParticipant]

Seriously, the first post was real. Thanks very much for the good advice. Obviously I was kidding about actually buying the behringer. . .

Billy

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Ok I picked up a Behringer SX3040 Sonic Exciter

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Behringer-SX3040-Sonic-Exciter-Stereo-Sound-Enhancement-Processor-104508304-i2547755.gc

I think our band is finally going to get the sound that will make us popular for live gigs!

Billy

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Cant wait to try 4 wheel. what an awesome upgrade. Makes me really happy to have invested in A&H

[BillyParticipant]

I quit coming to the forum because it was just too slow. Now that it runs normally I hope to participate more.

[BillyParticipant]

I got the buzzing noise for the first time tonight. Same as Bruce above, the buzzing coincides exactly with the disk access light. This was a practice and we were using only the main LR mix – no monitor mixes. Buzzing was heard on both L and R speakers.

Drive used was a WD My Book with external power source, which has been used before with no issues. One difference tonight is that we used two monitor wedges (JBL EON 15s) with cheapo XLR cables as our main LR mix speakers rather than our normal FOH speakers with quality cables.

I was ready to box the mixer up for warranty service. Glad I checked here. If I had to guess based on the above I might say better shielding on the XLR cables could be the answer.

Anyone have any other thoughts?

Thanks
Billy

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+1 for the Gator G-TOUR 20X25 road case. Lightweight, nice rollerblade type wheels, and a good fit. I put some an extra layer of foam on top of the mixer and it is nice and snug. I think I paid $209 from Sweetwater.

[BillyParticipant]

I got all the strips on one 8.5×11″ page in Word. . .

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DC — that is a devilishly clever idea!

But I hope AH fixes this issue so that I don’t have to add further complexity to my setup and use of this board.

To me this limitation is tied to another limitation of the board – the absence of digital scribble strips. I overcame that limitation by creating the very clever magnetic scribble strips that another forum user suggested.

We use this board for just our band, but the setup isn’t always the same. Most of the variation comes from different drum setup. Sometimes we can make it work with one 16-channel snake, sometimes we need two snakes. But we have a chart that shows each mic and where it is supposed to be plugged into the snake and the board — every time. Kick is ALWAYS on channel 14. Toms 1-5 are channels 16-20, but sometimes we have 3 toms, sometimes 4, sometimes 5. When we have 3 toms, there are empty channels for the ‘missing’ toms. Overheads are always 21 and 22. This method allows all of our mixes, FX, groups, etc to be consistent across each show. And my laminated magnetic scribble strips are always correct.

I have thought that maybe we should just get our 5 or 6 different setups organized, and then save the different setups / routing / etc as a scene. Maybe that’s the way the board was designed to be used. But then I go back to the scribble strip problem. In addition to calling up the right ‘scene’ I’d have to have 5 or 6 different scribble strip printouts, keep them all organized, and make sure the correct scribble strips are placed on the board to match the setup for that day. Obviously this would be a total PITA.

So all of this is why I say that A&H dropped the ball on this Qu playback issue. At some point every Qu owner probably thinks “Gee did I blow it by not getting the Board Who Will Not Be Named (but that rhymes with “bare integer sex for tea two)” because that board is so packed with features. So far I don’t think I blew it, but I admit the jury is still out. . .

Billy

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+1 for that idea!

I’m not a software person but I can see a technical challenge with sending the equivalent of a Netflix image to the screen, especially if the goal is to incorporate the touch screen features on the Qu-Pad. If I had to compromise, my vote for screens to replicate on the ipad would be:

– full size RTA display
– front side of FX units

Billy

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Mamerica, good luck with that software. I realize I was probably overreaching in my desire for a full emulator, but my goal was not to replace the Qu board but just to get functionality on my home computer (and more importantly the computer of my band’s sound guy) as opposed to fiddling with the unit at our practice location, where the board lives. But really it’s all about being able to remotely setup the board, and your software sounds like it would be a huge step in that direction.

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DC – thank you so much for your response. That answers my question — the Qu-Drive multitrack playback is fixed to channels 1-18. This seems really odd to me given that we can output patch channels 1-24 (as well as other busses). I want to do a virtual sound check by playing back the Qu-Drive recording through the mixer, but since it routes everything to channels 1-18 rather than the channels where the recording came from, it’s all f’d up.

You mention recording with USB B. I haven’t done that yet. Can you assign tracks from a USB B playback to any channel you want (e.g, could I assign track 4 on a USB B playback to channel 8 on the board)? If so I could accomplish what I want by using a laptop instead of the Qu Drive. . . . I’ll see if I can find anything in the manual but if you happen to know off the top of your head I’d appreciate it!

I will now head to the “firmware suggestions” page and point out this limitation on the Qu-Drive playback. In my mind this is an oversight that should be fixed. . . but who knows.

Many thanks!!
Billy

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Ok thanks I will check that out tonight.

Paul – what RTA mic are you using? Have you tried using an RTA app on an ipad/iphone?

[BillyParticipant]

Hi Paul thanks for your posts. i would like to understand this process as well and am starting from scratch. If you can post a recipe for this it would be great. . . or even better would be a youtube video showing how you do it!

[BillyParticipant]

my first post got chopped off. Here is how I patched the output to the Qu-Drive
Channel Name Track
1 Vocal 1 1
2 Vocal 2 2
3 Vocal 3 3
4 Empty
5 Empty
6 Empty
7 Empty
8 Guitar 1 4
9 Guitar 2 5
10 Guitar 3 6

Etc.

[BillyParticipant]

What I’m trying to ask is this: How do I play, say, track 4 from the Qu-Drive on Channel 8 on my board?

Page 42 of the manual describes “patching” the playback to channels, but it doesn’t cover this question. I tried keeping the inputs for channels 4-7 as “Local” thinking that this would make the next track roll to channel 8, but no luck. Channel 8 still played track 8 and tracks 4-7 were just not played at all.

Thanks in advance for any help / advice! Bill

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