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I have a Qu-24 as well.

I went with the Behringer PowerPlay P1 units: cheap, durable, with lots of clean gain (never had them past 12 o’clock), are threaded so can mount on a mic stand (or use the belt clip) and most of all, have 2 XLR inputs, so can use existing snakes and/or mic cables, plus an added bonus of stereo if I want it.

As a nice touch, it takes the same juice as a pedal board, so you can run a power extension cord off their pedal board PSU (or use a 9V).

I run all this straight off of the XLR outputs of Mix 5/6, 7/8, 9/10 (we’re a three piece) and use mono Mix 1/2/3/4 for any other musicians that come by (those just go into a Behringer HA4700 PowerPlay).

I picked up some super cheap Lenovo Android tablets (like 25 bucks each, refurbed) that only have the Qu-You app on them and pre-configured each Mix the first time around, one-on-one, and gave them a tour of how to use it (pretty dead simple: couple of big “wheel” faders for each group of instruments, labelled “me” and then whatever else the others are playing, like “drums”, “guitar”, “bass”, “vocals”).

For tweaks, I run the Qu-Pad app on an iPad Mini, which allows me to adjust specifics like “kick in” for the bass player, without cluttering up his Qu-You mix by giving him too many choices.

Dead simple, straight line from mixer to headphone amps, no intermediary routing/mixer/cable connection switching, etc.

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I use Mix 5/6, 7/8, and 9/10 stereo XLR out to three Behringer PowerPlay P1 headphone amps (only ones on the market I found that were stereo XLR in) for the three of us at rehearsal.

I usually mix it for the boys from my Qu-Pad app, but they also will tweak “more me” parameters with the Qu-You app.

Pretty nice.

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Spam bots are getting craftier. ^^^

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Ah ok. Mute is global. So faders should operate as expected then, fully-independent between mixes.

This is for studio: mains are not in use (although we do use them PA rehearsal).

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Thanks guys.

So if they’re set to post-fader, would that also mean Mix 5/6 would affect 7/8 and vice-versa?

That’s the behaviour I was seeing: my bass player is on 5/6, I’m on 7/8. I hit Mix 7/8 on the Qu-Pad app, then muted the Bass DI channel (8); he said he lost the bass in his cans.

Not sure if this is a Qu-App problem or not. Also, I’m on the 2nd latest version; haven’t upgraded. Maybe I should do that first, then rule out the Qu-App and test out on the board directly.

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The wav files themselves are damaged, so not a playback issue. I tried opening them on a different machine (I typically record on a MBP, but copy to a Windows workstation to mix in the studio) and in a different audio app (Audacity) and the “beep/bloop” was still there.

There’s literally no discernible audio left in the wav, even though the wave peaks look fairly normal (a bit truncated here and there, but it looks like a kick pattern on the kick wav, etc.).

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Same issue here. Qu-24, rehearsal jam completely ruined. Wave peaks look normalish, but it’s just bleeps and bloops.

Had a bass player in for a session and the surge sound was only intermittent, enough to ruin the take, but still not as consistent as this.

Phantom was/is engaged (and mixer is rarely turned off) for countryman DI box and one other condenser.

MacBook Pro, on AC.

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Ah ok. I appreciate the breakdown; definitely going to tweak that and save it as a scene.

Loving the Qu-24 so far: so much power, configurability, just scratching the surface.

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Hmm, I don’t recall messing around with the streaming channels, so I’m wondering why by default it would be bumped by 2 (21 to 23) on the USB output streaming. Will have to take a look and see what’s up there.

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Some plugins run more optimally at 96k.

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Yeah, from the block diagram, the conversion looks to be happening immediately after the gain stage on the mic inputs. Just curious to know if this is using their TC DICE chipset that’s in the ZED R16 and if 96kHz is ever going to possible.

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When you take Dante out of the equation, can you get the Qu-16 to DAW control Reaper? Should be really straightforward to setup. Did you watch this video?

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Doh. Just realized there are indeed XLR Group outs. Need to look at the back of the unit once in a while and not just the purdy touch display. 🙂

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All good, sorted it out today. Set Surface routing for Alt Out to PAFL.

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Yeah, I think I’m going to switch to 2Trk Out as the manual states: ” It follows the post master fader main LR mix.” so PAFL (“After Fader Listen”) should apply here?

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