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I run into this review of the XTI4000 Crown amp I’m using

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There was a problem with some of the amps during the early production run but that was several years ago. That bug was fixed. The amps would lose one side of a stereo program or start cutting in and out.
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The problem I run into might be caused by the XTI4000 Crown amp. It is a little bit “of forum” but if anyone of you with experience with the XTI4000 Crown amps can advice me on what to do to avoid this problem in the future that would be highly appreciated. I’m not sure that this is the cause of the problem but it might be. English is not my native language and I’m not sure what is mend by “start cutting in and out”.

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@andreas and @Dhak, Sunday afternoon I was with a friend mixing the Qu-16 recordings of his blues band and he showed me Reaper and I installed it on my MacBook. I have played around with it for a couple of hours and it looks and feels great although all the options are a bit overwhelming. I haven’t tried it out as a DAW but I think I followed your advice before you even gave it. I guess that means the problem, as far as Audacity is involved, is solved because I will not use it anymore if Reaper runs fine as a DAW.

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@markpaman, it is very unlikely that a DCA has been set. I have never used a DCA and between turning the mute group on because the band took a pause and turning it back off I also took a break. As far as I understand, after a reboot, the Qu-16 returns to its last settings and in that case the DCA would have been restored to.

What was a bit weird was that the mute leds of the Qu-16 looks like a light show thing with weird patterns of blinking of the different leds. There were some channels muted by the mute group which were already muted when the mute group was turn on. Perhaps this is normal behaviour but it looked a bit odd.

Thanks for trying to replicate the problem I run into. Isn’t there anything like a log file stored somewhere in the Qu-16 so someone with the proper skills can trace what happened and where the problem started?

[lesouvageParticipant]

It was mute group1. I set it up using my iPad and I switched the mute group on by pressing softkey 1 on the mixing table. The indication were that everything was OK but, as I mentioned before, the monitors simply didn’t gave any sound.

Thanks for the effort of responding to my question. This kind of accidents makes me a bit nervous.

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Bob, I use a USB cable to connect my MacBook with the Qu-16 mixing table. To be honest, until now I’m a bit scary to change default routings and settings because of unexpected results and problems to reverse the changes. I have to invest time in the near future to overcome my fear and to master myself in adjusting the table to my own needs. Can you please give a pointer on what the appropriate menu is.

This afternoon I will play around with yesterday recordings and try to find my way in the menu’s.

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Bob, thanks for the effort to respond to my question. The idea is that I use the 16 tracks for final mixing after the performance on the Qu-16. The FX1 en FX2 returns were up. The FX1 and FX2 could be heard over the headphone plugged in into the QU-16 I was using during my mixing activities and the headphone is getting louder when using the L / R fader so I assume that what I hear over the headphone is the same as the L / R channels as long as there is no PAFL button touched.

So what I’m aiming for is to simply record L in channel 1 of Audacity and R in L in channel 2. For now I miss Fx1 and Fx2 in the L /R recording and I have to record 18 tracks to get channel 17 and 18.

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Thanks all for the explanation 🙂
/erik

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@mervaka, thanks for the response, although it was not the answer that I expected.

So using the amplify “effect” with Audacity or give the track another 15 dB is the normal way to go? (or with some other program that processes the tracks and replay the tracks)

Just out of curiosity: What is the idea behind recording at such a low sound level (-18dBFS)? I read the info at Wikipedia but I still don’t understand.

What is the best way to go if it comes to normalising the recordings and end up with a nice mix of all the tracks. I’m using Audicity on my MacBook but I guess that is not really the best solution available.

Do one of you have any pointers to f.i. sites, books or articles so I can fill in this obviously lack of background information about digital recording. Again, thanks in advance.

[lesouvageParticipant]

A setback of using MIX9-10 instead of L/R will be that custom 1 and custom 2 in Qu-Pad aren’t really useful anymore because the custom groups are, as far as I can figure out, assigned to L/R. Am I correct or am I missing something?

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[XAP]Bob, I know that using mix 9-10 is basically the same as using L/R but it is a bit confusing when others are also mixing during an evening and I have to explain that FOH is on 9-10. Is it possible to link L/R and MIX 9-10 together in a way that an adjustment in L/R is also done in MIX9-10 and vice versa?

When Qu-You is used on stage the musicians have the option to control the FOH sound and that makes me a bit nervous. But I never use all my mixes so mix 9-10 will do. I haven’t tested running Qu-You and Qu-Pad simultaneously at my iPad but they show as a great combination.

It would be nice if a Qu-You user can change the names of the channels within his/her Qu-You app running. While I usually name the mics “Mic1, Mic2 and Mic3.”, not always knowing the names of the ones on stage, we may assume that band members know each other so using the real names “Peter, Anna and George” will result in a better experience then “Mic1, Mic2 and Mic3”. (just a thought)

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I used Audicity on my MacBook a couple of times and the first thing I do after copy and past a part of the track is that I choose the “Amplify” option in the Effect menu . This will amplify (which is no surprise) the recording to the maximum level. Although this might be a workaround it works pretty good. Your gain can better be too low then too high. If it is too high there is no way to correct it as far as I know. (listen at https://soundcloud.com/acoustic-open-mic/sets/slices-as-act-of-the-evening-of-acoustic-open-mic-assen-11-at-the-12th-of-may-2014 for some of the results )

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[XAP]Bob, my idea was to adjust the maximum volume of the monitors below the level where the monitors start to deliver problems so the musician can move the slider to the max if he or she feels like that without causing feedback and/or other problems. Is this a bit too optimistic?

[lesouvageParticipant]

Thanks for all the replies. They are pointers for features to check out. It started working again after a reset a while later. We will never know but I guess I created my own problem by hitting some button by accident. Erik

[lesouvageParticipant]

Thanks for all the replies. This really helps 🙂 I fiddled around with Qu-You and I love the UI and the simplicity. Still wondering if the musicians will like doing their own monitor mix. It also would be great if Qu-pad would have a “Qu-You” mode and adjust the FOH sound with the Qu-You UI.

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Just to let you know, I used my brand-new Sandisk 64 Gb Extreme in combination with a USB cable of around 1/3 meter, so the stick could be stored under the mixing table, to record a friend band on a wedding. I used the mixing table to reformat the stick and started the recordings when the band started. When I stopped around 4 hours later it the “busy” message on the screen didn’t disappear, not even after half an hour. I switch of the board because we had to leave. The recording is on the disk but the last hour is a chain of hiccups and small missing parts of the music. It is actually worser then ever before. I’m really sorry that the Sandisk 64 Gb extreme USB 3.0 doesn’t seem to be the solution. The problems seem to appear after a couple of hours. Should it help to end the recording at the end of the set and start a new recording when the new set starts instead of having a recording of 4 hours. Any suggestions are very welcome. I really in need of having this feature up and running in a trustful way.

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