[bossarbParticipant]

@airickess : can’t I use panning to create the same effect? So if I wanted mix 5 to be acoustic guitar and mix 6 to be violin, could I send both of those channels to the Group 5/6 buss and then within the bus sends (not affecting the mains) pan the guitar hard left and the violin hard right? Or is it not possible to pan the send to the buss without affecting the send to the mains?

@[XAP]Bob : we generally have 3 or 4 vocals, 2 guitars, stereo keys, bass guitar, 1 or 2 wind/ string and 8 channels of drums. To make life simpler for the operator, every channel is dedicated to a single mic or DI box, so even if we don’t have a 4th vocalist (say) that day we will still be using a channel of the desk (and of the Aviom) for that mic position labelled “Vocal 4”. We sub-mix the drum channels down to 3 channels for the Aviom inputs.

[bossarbParticipant]

Thanks for the responses. Very helpful.

I think that means I could run the Aviom distribution box next to the desk and feed it 16 dedicated channels from the physical XLR outputs on the desk as a combination of:

1-10 the standard mix outputs [can these all be switched between pre-fade and post-fade?]
11-16 the first six group outputs [can these all also be switched between pre-fade and post-fade and can I make the ones that are labelled as stereo into mono channels?]

Then I could just send the stage box 4 channels that would be the main L&R plus a stereo group pair using the unused group channels.

Does that sound like it would work in terms of routing on the QU32 and stage boxes?

Given that the stage box outputs are fully patchable and I would only be using 4 of them in the configuration above, could I still send another 20 channels of outputs from any source (mix/ channels/ matrix) to the 24 physical outputs of the stage boxes or would these have to mirror the configuration of the desk? I’m guessing that “mix 5” has to mean the same thing regardless of output source, so if I set up mix 5 and grab it from the physical local XLR on the desk then if I send “mix 5” to an XLR output on the stage box it would be carrying the same signal. So it’s really a question of mix buss capacity and matrix buss capacity, shared between the desk outputs (where the configuration is fixed) and the stage boxes, where the configuration is patchable.

The manual says that there are a total of 24 busses on the QU32: made up of 12 mix busses (4M, 3ST, LR) plus 8 group busses (4ST) plus 4 matrix busses (2ST). So if I have used 16 busses for my local outputs and I don’t want to duplicate any of those on the stage box outputs, I will have a total of 8 remaining busses to play with from the stage box, including some which are a limited like the L&R (fixed inputs from the main faders, I assume) and the remaining matrix pair (needs to be fed by a group or a mix or by L&R).

This sounds as if it will work for us but please let me know if I’ve misunderstood.

Incidentally, the reason we are not going for the ME monitoring system is simply cost to change. Similarly the GLD series is out of our price range and equally importantly doesn’t have enough physical faders for our semi-trained volunteers (church setting) – we want 32 physical faders on a single layer for ease of understanding.

Thanks again

Andrew

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