[Hercules123Participant]

I use the delay feature on my Qu outputs & delay my monitors approximately 10-15ms and eliminate feedback problems all the time. Depending on the environment & stage & stage environment, you can accomplish the same thing without feedback programs or units. I make sure there’s no actual delay of any kind to be heard or felt & it works great for me. I’ve also have delayed the outputs as much as 18ms without any problems or delays of the signal only in the right environment. We are all mixing to & balancing our mixes to our acoustic environments.
At a church I had the audio Engineers use that feature with an Omni directional lavaler mic and when the minister realized there wasn’t anymore feedback he was like a little kid.
This idea of depending on feedback suppressors is a bad idea & doesn’t teach anyone anything. I do understand on certain situations it does and or would come in handy. I use the gorack at one gig in the winter for children’s choirs because they sing so soft with a pair of Shure sm81’s and it works well, otherwise the other 50-100 bands I mix I don’t use any feedback suppression. And many times I only get 20min-30min between bands.
With the Allen & Heath you get parametric eq with your 1/3 octave on every output. If you can’t get great mixes in challenging environments with the delays on top of that, I don’t have an answer for any engineers not training your ears. Those are your most important feedback answers.

[Hercules123Participant]

Your asking for feed back city & something that’s not recommended. This can cause more headaches than you know. You will always have multiple mixes for live sound.
Your stage volume could get out of control real quick.

[Hercules123Participant]

We have 4 Qu 24’s and 1 Qu 16. Never had any problems with drop outs with any of our boards. Ususally user!

[Hercules123Participant]

I run systems every week and I use my Ipad to start out. I first start with my 4-6 monitor mixes. I set everything mix on stage first because if I’m on a time crunch I can mix FOH on the fly. Gain, Monitor Volume, EQ for Monitors, then I can go out and mix mains. The luxury of having Unity gain with all my channels isn’t gonna happen. However I do start with the Vocals at Unity Gain and adjust the master volume accordingly. Then i add the instruments, usually bass gtr and drums first, then midrange instruments. Most of my mix is close to Unity Gain.
By the end of the first song I usually have my FOH in good shape.
I have a lot of gigs with minimul setup time & when you have multible bands through out the day and evening and you don’t have a separate monitor engineer this sequence works well for me.
Good Luck and have fun!

[Hercules123Participant]

What I’ve found is the Enable DHCP can be confusing. If the “Enable” is green and highlighted it’s not on. If you press apply and it says”Disabled” in gray, it is on now locked on to the IP address with the router. This has caused drop outs and craziness with iPads.

[Hercules123Participant]

You probably bump or barely touched something on the mixer. With digital it only takes a very soft touch with any setting, faders, or just any parameter and it will instantly get your attention. I’m sure many engineers have experienced this.

[Hercules123Participant]

You could of fed the Effects back into it self. When you pull up the Effects 1 or 2 layer up on the right, and and then pull up the top layer you should not have the returns faders up. This happens often. I think its that switch from analog to digital signal flow issue. This will not feed back right away but when it does, its very high pitched and can take off quick.

[Hercules123Participant]

What exactly are you trying to accomplish sending the LR Mix to the monitor mix? It is a separate mix. You have Matrix Mixes you can use that can be the LR Mix.

[Hercules123Participant]

I don’t have a separate monitor engineer so I’ll stay on stage after micing up the band & take care of gains & monitors. First off my monitor mix is post eq in not so friendly acoustic environments & pre eq in good acoustic environments. I always take care of monitors first cause I can take care of FOH on the fly. I also use subtractive eq mostly.
I find some engineers don’t zero the board or have a good pre set programmed in a scene & that can throw a curve ball at you if your not prepping for that next gig. I know my mic chacateristics & my monitors so that always helps when mixing in different environments.
There’s an infinite amount of ways to approach your mixing. I just happen to mix lots of events with multiple bands with not much tear down time & set up time. I always have a stage hand micing up the band & helping in every way. What I do know is making the band happy with there monitors is the upmost importance. I’m a sax player also & it’s frustrating when I get a crappy sounding monitor. If you want the band to give a 110% you must give them great monitors.
There’s 6 engineers within the company & everybody has a different approach.

[Hercules123Participant]

Make sure your update is the 1.7 & your router & pad have at least “n” for wifi signal. One of our engineers has an older 2nd generation pad & he’s having drop out issues.
Just a thought!

[Hercules123Participant]

We just started to use the IPad & an ASUS router. It works well with the iPad 4 generation & newer. The 2nd generation iPad wants to drop out a lot.
We bought router that has the a/c signal & the signal is strong & consistent.
I do know setting these routers up can be tricky. There’s no discussion about connections & setup.
I got an iPad Air 32gb at the Apple Store & got a refurbished for quite a discount.
There’s a learning curve when using the pad but it doesn’t take long.

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