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See, I’ve A/Bed before with 96KHz, and didn’t notice a huge difference, probably thanks to 30 years drumming and using a budget interface (Scarlett 1st gen).

I’m more interested in direct comparisons between Qu and SQ, to see if it’s worth my while.

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ah, ok. Thanks everyone.

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I tried that, but the mute seemed to be global.

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I don’t plan on using the main mix at all (Qu-24 is only used in a studio setting for tracking and headphone mixes). But will pre allow muting of channels on say Mix 5/6 that won’t affect Mix 6/7?

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Thanks guys.

Trying to setup personalized mixes for everyone (4 of us) using the stereo Mix busses and the Groups. Working well, but pre/post toggling really boosts the perceived volume in the mixes. Thinking probably post-fader is more manageable while we’re tracking (no PA, just cans), but seems like “pre” is being used to bump up the can mix for some of them.

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Bingo. Thanks brother. Never would’ve thought to look at the Security settings.

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I’m curious now too, wondering if the SQ is going to bury the Qu series.

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Ah, I’ll have to check that out. I don’t see why I would as 5/6 was used for a headphone mix previously without issue, but that was a year ago, so fat fingers may have prevailed since then.

Another phenomenon is that routing Channel 3 Out vs. selecting Channel 3/4 Out in Reaper is significantly quieter, when feeding the snare track back to the Qu-24 via USB.

I don’t know if that’s a Reaper thing, but I couldn’t see anything in particular that would be different between the mono vs. stereo option, unless some weird summing is going on, but channel 4 is another mono track (Leslie/organ).

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No. I tried loading an old scene to no avail.

Maybe I’ll give that a go.

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Went through everything, upgraded firmware to 1.95; spent a good hour and can’t figure it out. I’m almost considering that something’s failed physically.

I tried muting everything but the bass DI on channel 12 and experienced the following phenomenon:

With the pan pot set to 0, I can hear the bass DI 100% in the right channel at a level that seems reasonable given the gain (-18dBFS in DAW, USB gain set to 0 on Qu-channel; fader at unity).

If I pan the channel strip 100% left, it’s extremely faint, in the left channel. Anything _but_ panning 100% left in the channel strip, and the bass DI is heard in the right speaker of the headphones, 100% volume.

I’ve had cans with a crapped out cable before, and if say the left side is toast, then you’ll gradually hear an increase as you pan from 100% hard left to center to hard right. This is like 0 to 100% immediately outside hard left 100%, like 99% and you hear the bass full volume in the right side.

I’ve tried with any mono channel: kick, snare, etc. and it’s all the same.

And to repeat, I’ve swapped cables, swapped cans, swapped headphone amps and to no avail.

I gave up and used the Group 3/4 stereo channel for now, which works as expected.

If anyone has a Qu-24, I’ve downloaded the scene and can upload it if anyone wants to load it up and have a gander, see if I’m overlooking something.

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I believe so, but I will double check today.

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I wonder why that would be. Summing in the digital domain should be the same and I don’t know know if it would ever leave the digital domain on the Qu when streaming back to the board and mixing back down to stereo stems in the DAW.

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Interesting. What exactly was the hassle? Setting up a mixdown scene and loading it, ready to go, seems pretty straightforward to setup.

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I mix on an iPad Mini, but that’s just rehearsals and setting up “more me” for everyone. It’s pretty solid; I know a few FOH engineers that do and they’ve been happy with it.

I would go with a larger sized iPad if I was actually working with it on a daily basis for hours at a time. Would get a ruggedized case too.

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The Behringer PowerPlay P1 works well; it’s what I use off of Mix 5/6, 7/8, 9/10 (three sets, three stereo pairs) for our trio.

P16 is an option too, but more expensive.

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