[Mike CParticipant]

The alt out output source is selectable in the I/O section, a mix, group or matrix would all give you a delay option as well as other independent processing options. What mixer are you using?

[Mike CParticipant]

Even if overheating was not the cause of your problem I would leave at least one open rack space under a rack mounted Qu-Pac. There are vents on the bottom that are directly
under the power supply.
I custom built a rack for my Qu-pac with ventilation in mind, under the Qu-Pac I have low speed fan under the power supply vents and to add to the cross ventilation through the air tunnel in the middle I cut round holes about three inches in diameter on each side of the rack.
The holes also function as handles. The rack travels in a small built to fit foam padded trunk style case. Also in the rack is a wireless mic receiver that serves as stage talk back from my wireless headset mic and or as the wireless receiver when I only need a single wireless mic.
I’ll try to remember and get a couple pics of it when I have it out in a few days my next job.

In the utility menu you can monitor the internal temperature.

[Mike CParticipant]

I have had my QU Pac for just about a year and for 95% of what I do I do not miss faders. For the series of school class plays I do I did bring out my GL2400 this year.

I have installed four QU series boards and during the install I mentioned that the Qu Pad App was actually as easier way to operate the board, after following up with the operators at those installs all agreed that I was right and said they rarely even touch the board. I installed QU Pacs at two funeral homes and for them they use the Q Control
presets I set up on their phones and iPads as much if not more than the full QU pad App.

[Mike CParticipant]

If you loop the main L R outs into the sub and then take the subs L R outs to your amp
for the mains the mains will be in stereo. You will want to turn on the high pass switch just above the subs link outputs. The stereo inputs are summed to mono for the subwoofer but will pass the stereo signal through.

If you go with the sub on an aux method I would suggest getting a real crossover to put in line between the boards L R outputs and the power amp for the mains, even a good analog crossover would be fine. Set it for somewhere around 90hz for a start.

[Mike CParticipant]

There’s a couple ways to achieve what you want, at least as I understood your question.
As for the groups,you do not want to assign any channel to a group and to the left right main mix at the same time that group is assigned to the left right main mix. You would need to go to the channel and turn off the left right assignment. If both the channel the and group are assigned to the left right mix there is a slight phase shift due to the slight difference in latency through the group routing.

If the groups are routed only to other outputs and not the left right mix then your OK.

[Mike CParticipant]

Have you tried it with all of the inputs disconnected at the mixer?

[Mike CParticipant]

As for routers, I have great results with both a TP Link ArcherC7 and a Netgrear Nighthawk R7000. I have a static IP set on the mixer (QuPac) and only use 5ghz, the 2.4 is shut off in the routers. Both give me great range and solid connections, I do feel maybe the Nighthawk has a slightly longer operating range.

[Mike CParticipant]

You have the option of pre or post in relation to the main LR fader.

[Mike CParticipant]

I started to think “auto mixer” in conjunction with some creative ducking about half way through of reading these post.

As far mic gating, if the organ is so loud in that is triggers the mic gates to open adjusting the gate threshold higher not going to be the answer because when some goes to a mic to speak there’s a good chance there voice level will not open the gate, or at least keep it open, you could set a really long gate release time, that would help smooth out the choppy on and off gating if that is a problem.

The Optogates are not a bad idea.

The system sounds like it could use a little touch up on main EQ as well.

I have use the auto mix function a few times on multi mic question and answer forums and it worked well.

[Mike CParticipant]

For the older sequencing system you have Furman makes a plug in relay the will provide the contact closure to trigger the remote sequencer, you plug the relay into stage three of the sequencer to next sequencer in line. That will make the system act as one big six or nine stage sequencer system. You will need to adjust the time delays on the sequencers to allow for the each sequencer to complete it’s cycle before the next one.

There are a couple of other ways you could do it as well, send me a message with a more detailed layout if you want.

[Mike CParticipant]

Do you have either a AB168 or AR2412 stage box to try and see if the channels 9-16 work via the stage box through the mixer. That would somewhat narrow down if it is a mixer input hardware problem isolated to channels 9 – 16 or a software processing issue with those channels. Either way it doesn’t fix the problem, just an experiment to try.

[Mike CParticipant]

I am going to say that just about all of us when using an analog mixer have returned the effects through a channel. That channel would have aux send controls some of those auxes would be effects sends, if turned up that would create a feedback loop back into the effects unit. The only safety net there was knowing not to do it.

[Mike CParticipant]

I would prefer the iPad as well, that’s what we use to control our Qu mixers anyway!

[Mike CParticipant]

You can name the DCA control strip, just like naming a channel.
About the only way now I can think of to mute a matrix with a mute group
would be to assign the inputs to the matrix to a mute group. Yo may have to get
creative in the routing to the matrix so that muting the matrix input sources
does not mute any mixes that you do not want muted.

#4 – could be handy.
#5 – No

[Mike CParticipant]

If this in a more permanent type of installation/studio you may want to look at a power sequencing system, one switch to turn everything on and off in the proper sequence…provided the equipment is plugged into the proper stages of the sequencing system.

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