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2017/10/27 at 10:01 pm #65941
We were thinking a combination of the GEQ and PEQ on the LR of the QU-24 while watching the pink noise received from the ref mic on the Qu-pad RTA. Then playing some well known commercial music and tweaking by ear. The article you provided will be taken under advisement. Our current system was tuned with just the 16 bands of the Mackie’s GEQ, so hopefully we can get a little closer with the Qu’s EQ. I realize perfection, in this life, will never be obtained.
I’ll report our results in a few weeks.
2017/10/27 at 7:55 pm #65939Dick, thanks for your comments. The Bose processor is an older, nonprogramable one. It just provides crossover and optimizes EQ for the matching speakers. Whether we keep the amp and speaker arrangement as it is now or change it, we are planning to retune the EQ for the room using pink noise from the board and a reference mic placed in the center of the pews. We just thought that it might be a good time to give the mid/high and bass speakers their own amps. That’s the Bose suggested setup. Bridging the bass amp won’t exceed the rating of the speaker. My other concern was if there is an advantage setting the FOH outputs both to L+R or leaving one L and the other R?
Thanks again.
2017/10/27 at 7:14 pm #65937Thanks Doc. Is there any advantage setting both FOH outs on the AR2412 to L+R or should we just leave one L and the other R?
2017/10/26 at 5:34 pm #65900Buy or make a 1/8” to 1/4” short wired adapter with a 90 degree 1/8” plug and tape it down to the board.
2017/10/24 at 11:30 pm #65845Sorry, I overlooked the requirement for 4 inputs. A 6 channel snake would be bigger than the cat5 cable, though probably cheaper than an AR84.
2017/10/24 at 9:26 pm #65843Go to C:\Program Files\Allen & Heath\QuUSBDriver and right click uninstall.exe. Select Run as Administrator.
2017/10/24 at 8:50 pm #65841Is there any reason why not to just use 2, 75 feet XLR cables to the other room, connected to, say, the mix 9 & 10 outs on the back of the QU-PAC to an amp in the other room? 2 XLR cables is not that much bigger than a cat 5 cable. I can’t see a need for the AR84.
2017/10/24 at 8:39 pm #65840I could see a situation where you record a rehearsal, then offline, while playing the tracks, you could set approx FOH and mix/monitor levels and other settings for each song, band, scene of a play, etc. There may even be times where you need to change settings during a song. Basically it would become almost an automation tool where you can queue up your settings files and send them to the board at each change. You can do all this now using saved scenes, but the point of the offline editor is you wouldn’t need access to the board while creating the presets and someone could be making any needed changes to the files during the gig, on-the-fly, before they’re needed. You can’t do that while using the board.
Again, all of this would be subject to the limitations of the QU’s MIDI over TCP/IP unless A&H opened up their iOS API.
2017/10/23 at 5:53 am #65812For iOS and Android devices, transferring folders of audio files through the cloud would be easy enough, and desktops and laptops could use the usb drive directly.
And yes, just using the multitrack playback for setting levels would be all that’s needed since you can’t adjust effects parameters using midi anyway. Now if A&H decided to release the protocol their iOS apps use, well that would be a whole new ball game. Until then, an app that could store levels, mix settings, channel names, etc. to files then send them to the board as needed, I think would be helpful.
2017/10/22 at 1:52 pm #65795Since you would be using the app offline, the multitrack files would be stored locally on your device and playing while setting up the presets. No WiFi involved until you go online.
2017/10/21 at 7:00 pm #65783I thought qu-pad uses midi over ip. Even with limitations, couldn’t you use it to create different mixes when you don’t have access to the board and then during the gig, dump the settings between songs, bands, etc?
The Android app Mix Station is pretty complete. Make something similar that can save all its settings then can dump the settings to the board.
What would really be great is if you could play qu recorded multitracks through the app while you’re creating presets so you could get approximate levels.
2017/10/21 at 2:28 pm #65776Couldn’t an offline editor basically be something similar to the QU-Pad app that just stores all the settings to a file as midi commands, then when connected to the board, you just dump the file to the board? The board doesn’t care how the commands are received, whether live from an app or sequentially from a file.
2017/10/19 at 5:32 pm #65745I don’t know anything about Dante, but maybe there is some sort of hardware Dante to multichannel analog converter that can feed your QU board. I’m surprised A&H or another company doesn’t offer an ME monitor port to multichannel analog converter. It would be similar to the ME hub, but instead of just distributing the ME protocol to the IEM units it would supply analog outs for all the individual channels.
2017/10/19 at 4:56 pm #65743When used with a GLD board, the monitor port on the AR2412 is compatible with A&H’s ME system or Aviom’s monitor system. To use your qu-16 for a monitor mix, as others said, splitting your input cables so they feed both the GLD and the QU is what you should probably do. In addition you could create groups on the GLD board and cable the group outputs to inputs on the QU where you don’t need individual control.
Is there a reason you aren’t using the outputs on your AR2412 for monitor mixes?
2017/10/19 at 1:25 pm #65735Go to the “Device Manager”, find the driver, right click, uninstall.
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