[PeteParticipant]

@cornelius78, I am using a DCA on all 6 monitor channels so I can easily drop all the levels between songs and if the “More Me” syndrome starts to cause ANY kind of feedback I can again drop all the monitor levels whilst I sort it out. Obviously I can adjust any of the individual Mix outs but this give me one fader to control all the monitor level at once. That way I do not lose my balance.

I do not like over loud monitors on stage so backing them off at the end of each song is a good way to help stop the monitors slowly creeping up over the evening.

[PeteParticipant]

@nzdave,Thank you. I always have a Plan B. I think that I was born having a Plan B. This particular Plan B is to take along an old Mackie 4 mic channel analog mixer + a 50ft 8 x 4 snake in the car. I shall lay the snake alongside the dSnake cable. If it all falls apart I will put the 4 x SM58s through the Mackie and re-cable the mains and sub with 3 XLR re-plugs from the dSnake AB168 to the analog snake. The keys, guitar and bass will play through their own amps. The drummer will also have no mics so he’s just gonna have to play louder. He does that anyway. He’s a drummer, right?

[PeteParticipant]

Thank you everyone. I finally ordered an AB168 from Sam Ash and the Fedex tracking number says it will arrive this Tuesday. I shall no doubt have fun setting it up. No TV for Pete this coming week.

This is a great forum. People are very helpful.

[PeteParticipant]

Dick, Yes, I know about crossovers in speakers. Indeed almost all sub-bass speakers are mechanically incapable of reproducing higher frequencies. My own JBL powered speakers (no rack at all and with my QU-24 the only outboard I now have is… the crossover) are quoted as being full range (no internal crossover) and here lies the problem. I wish to keep the energy laden bass frequencies away from the JBl mid/tops. I get a cleaner sound with obviously more overhead by using a crossover.

In fact I tailor the slope of the crossover to match that of the bass cab which admittedly do have and electronic crossover point.

I once saw a speaker cone filmed in high-speed (about 500 frames/second). It was really scary to watch the supposedly stiff cone ripple with bass waves and shimmer with the mid frequencies. This is why I am asking for a crossover to be built in.

There have been many others asking for this too. Agreed there are many other features that could be added and it is a question of development resources. So, I stick it out there and see what happens.

[PeteParticipant]

Ratchet, I agree with your last sentence. There were two things I identified as being missing from the QU mixers. One was the lack of user installable plugins and the other was the fact that I will still need an external crossover to protect my top speakers from all the bass energy. You raise an extension to the crossover by asking for a sub-bass filter. Way to go.

Why can’t A&H put in a crossover on say, the Matrix outputs as Andreas pointed out earlier ? It would be a really nice feature to have I think.

[PeteParticipant]

Thanks Gents, I kind of reckoned that the Sam Ash guys were not to clued up on A&H gear. I shall start with one AB168 and move on from there. I am trying hard to reduce the amount of gear that I have to lug to gigs and the thing I hate the most is my outboard rack (8U high). That has now gone. I now have a mixer that is smaller and yet more powerful than my old Mackie CFX20 MkII. The next target is the snake. I really do not want to get back into racks again hence the initial choice of the AB168 over the 2412.

[PeteParticipant]

I got my new QU-24 home last night. Wow, what a great mixer. I am loving it. I shall now spend the next couple of weeks learning it before I take it its first gig next month. Then the fun starts.

[PeteParticipant]

As has been said, the maximum size that you can format a FAT32 disk is 2TB. Here’s why . The best thing you can do is to partition your disk under Windows into 2 x 2TB partitions and then format one of these on your QU.

I do not know if a QU can see two partitions as I do not take delivery of mine until next Monday but, I do know about disks and about Windows.

[PeteParticipant]

I agree. I reread the manual and realized that this is probably the best starting point. I shall now have to wait until Monday evening when I bring the QU-24 home. Then the fun will start. My last digital mixer was in about 2005 and nwas a Soundcraft 328. A much earlier generation.

Thanks for all your help. I am sure that I shall need more.

[PeteParticipant]

All the speakers are powered. The only “rack” on stage will be/should be the AB168 dSnake box. Nice idea though.

[PeteParticipant]

Thanks again. I need to learn this forum. I shall spend some time just browsing and searching.

I agree that an external dedicated crossover is a better solution if you have the space and the time. No question about it in my mind. My current goal is quite simply to reduce the amount of gear I have to carry to a gig. I am no longer 25 years old. Less gear means I have fewer interconnects, fewer cables and that means a faster setup and I also need less space. Heck If I use my Android tablet I could even go and sit at a table with my wife at some gigs.

[PeteParticipant]

Thank you Andreas for pointing me in the right direction.

Frankly I was never happy with using EQs for crossovers and your posts and graphics really reinforced what I already knew. It is not the right way to do the job. One of my goal in buying a QU-24 was to reduce the amount of outboards, cables and interconnects.

For now I will keep the CX3410 because it works fine and has done for a few years. Yeah, I know, its Behringer. Later I may just buy some QSC tops which have internal crossovers designed to work together with the QSC sub.

It would be nice if future software releases for the QU could incorporate algorithms for at least Butterworth and Linkwitz-Riley crossover filters with various octave slopes and frequencies. Maybe I will stick this request in the features section once I have learned enough to ask questions.

Thank you again.

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