[JgriftParticipant]

That might depend on what you are running your plugins in? And what hardware you plan to use. Dante Virtual Soundcard latency is pretty high. A hardware PCIe or rednet style interface would be much lower latency. Waves is great if you are running a waves server. But Dante is more useful overall because many hardware devices have it built in.

[JgriftParticipant]

For perspective. We had one of the first Yamaha PM10s that shipped. And it didn’t have an offline editor for awhile. Didn’t have auto mixer for even longer. Had a slow interface. And was missing features that had been avalialbe in the CL and QL for years! I would say it took about 2 years before most of that was resolved. And even now you can’t monitor wireless like you can on the rest of the lineup. And all of this on a $150k console.

Now I’m not a software engineer, and I can’t speak for A&H timelines. But certanly A&H is not the only company that takes the time needed to do it correctly.

Keep up the good work A&H. Hope to see the editor soon.

[JgriftParticipant]

Yamaha does this on the output circuit. It always drives me nuts bc for some reason it wouldn’t recall in a scene. So you were left wondering why less sound would be coming out of the left speaker for far too long!

And the reason its 300 gain stages is bc the SQ can connect to a lot of I/O. And each output socked would need this gain stage.

[JgriftParticipant]

This system is an excellent choice

[JgriftParticipant]

Look at the Dante products from Glen Sound. I have have the little Dante POE speaker. And they have Dante call lights

[JgriftParticipant]

I did go from a Qu to SQ. And while I cannot provide evidence to the pre amps being better (not sure how you measure that one sounds better than the other). The console is much more capable. And in my experience sounds better. The DEEP processing is great. Love having the options for extra add on processing. Also like the extra routing/patching capability of the SQ which might be relevant to you in the studio space.

[JgriftParticipant]

The DX168 is only $100 more than the DXO12. Not a bad value for getting more I/O. I get the overall space is more but ultimately its a more flexible box. But it doesn’t seem like it would take much to use the same chassis for inputs vs outputs.

[JgriftParticipant]

I’m not sure you need to measure a preamp to decide if sounds better. But perhaps I should rephrase it “I would say the SQ sounds better to my ear”. I was just sharing my experience. I do however believe that the SQ is a better mixing system. And with the cost not being drastically more it seems like a no brainer which one you should buy. Although if that 1.3k extra now breaks the bank than the QU is a fine board.

[JgriftParticipant]

I have mixed extensively on both systems (live only). But I would say the SQ is much better that the QU. The new FPGA engine is miles better than the QU. And you have higher clarity and definition in the mix. As far as the pre amps…I understand they are not the same as QU. The flexibly alone of having a card option is worth it going to a SQ over a QU. Even if you don’t use that slot for a few years. The QU has to be reaching maturity soon. Not that it will make it bad once they end life but that the SQ will for sure be adding features for more years than QU.

[JgriftParticipant]

Both cards would work. But if you have any other Dante devices (or hope to) that may be the way to go. You would need to buy a Dante card for both Avantis and SQ. If you purchase a Giga-ace you would only need one card… Avantis/Giga-ace > SQ/S-Link. Dante is more money but ultimately more flexible.

[JgriftParticipant]

Using the copy paste reset keys could be useful here.

Reset+layer button to clear layer

Copy could work in 2 ways. 1 for a whole bank using the layer button. But also copy channel select and paste on blank fader to copy channel to the fader.

[JgriftParticipant]

As far as I understand it. The PFL buss goes to both the IEM and Wedge busses. With Mono auxes routed to the wedge and stereo mixes routed to the IEM buss. This would be common in a monitor situation where both onstage wedge monitors and wireless in ears are in use. The engineer would usually have a Q wedge and their own IEM. Also there is a soft key for Assign On/Off. I haven’t used this this function but it seems to be able to do all sorts of routing changes between the IEM and wedge mixes.

[JgriftParticipant]

The card is probably set to 96k. Only devices with the same sample rate can be routed to each other in controller. You could also set your DVS to 96k but with only 32 channels

[JgriftParticipant]

Dante latency is very low. Even with DVS (which is the slowest) you will be looking at a few more milliseconds. Hardware options can be expensive. But they also have other advantages besides latency, like redundant options. Maybe look at the Focusrite Rednet products.

[JgriftParticipant]

Speakers can also cause hearing damage. Road cases can hurt your fingers. Phantom power can be bad for some devices. Work smart…and don’t be dumb.

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