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It’s pretty great. Saves a lot of time and the Qu-You app makes it dead easy for everyone.

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I have a DigiFace, I know TotalMix quite well. But it doesn’t compare to the Qu-You experience for personal monitoring.

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It’s the monitoring that’s killer. I’ve recorded a ton with the Qu, done some comparisons… the pres are definitely on the wooly/warm side, at least as far as I can tell. A&H support says the slow rate is lower on the SQ series, so “faster”… I don’t know, I think it’s probably a wash upgrading at this point.

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Back from the dead…

Still, I’m left wondering whether the straight capture — that is, Qu preamp to AD @ 48kHz vs. SQ preamp to AD @ 48kHz — is any improvement at all.

I don’t mix on my Qu, and I don’t use any effects. It’s a straight capture interface + Qu-You based personal montoring, which is excellent.

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Reviving this thread, but on the input side, where is 31/32?

ST1 25/26
ST2 27/28
ST3 29/30
??? 31/32

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Did you ever directly compare recordings made on the Qu vs. the SQ?

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Actually it confuses my decision a bit, because the goalposts are being moved around here.

Did you ever compare your Qu recordings direct to your SQ recordings, using the onboard pres and no additional hardware/processing?

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Well it’s all subjective. Some people can hear 96K, others cannot; I don’t know if I can. I think the preamps are better in the SQ, but I’ve been pretty happy with my Qu’s recordings/preamps and I have higher end external preamps from BAE, Heritage Audio, etc.

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Both are set to 0dB

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Reviving this: all of my stereo mix and group outs are spoken for right now.

Mix 1 and 2 is an option, but despite panning hard left and right in the Matrix function tab, I’m only getting the right channel.

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Ah, right. Thanks.

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As someone interested in “straight wire” A/D, none of the DSP processing improvements are of use to me and if the DX168 preamps are required to improve over the standard preamps in the SQ, I’m not entirely convinced I’m going to see the capture improvement you’re speaking of.

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Well there is workflow, which I’m not really concerned about, and then there is the “sonic quality of your front end capture” being “greatly improved”, which I am.

That’s a pretty heavy statement. Besides 96K vs. 48K, care to elaborate?

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Well, certainly within a distributed topology as you’re describing, but most would say “studio use” and mean, “mixer parked on a desk with the usual static analog tie-lines”, in which a USB interface is perfectly acceptable.

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I’m not following.

If I’m happy with 32×32 USB straight to DAW (Reaper/PC), what would Dante give me, other than network expansion?

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