Funnily enough I had exactly the same issue at my last gig where I couldn’t control the output from the keyboard player. It was on 46v pp and di into my Qu Pac. Be interested to see what others think.

Pretty sure you can’t use either as a stage box with your SQ5 I’m afraid. But as a proud owner of a QU Pac, I can safely say that they are just ticket for smaller events, especially pub gigs where space is tight.
Tour best bet is to get a DX168 which delivers the 96k of the desk, as opposed to a AB168 which is only 48k.

That’s a shame Lee – that footswitch may have had a market!

AB168s on eBay are quite rare, and even then the discount over new was questionable as to whether it was worth the risk. Buy high end new, sell high end high, I guess.

Lee, sadly it doesn’t 🙁 Oh well, it’s not a biggie as I am always with the iPad at shows so mute the FX between songs from that.

I use the same method. I bought multiple colours of magnetic strips on a roll and make my own small labels for the custom layer, but use one single strip for the main channel assignments and the ins/outs on the back or on my AB 168. I have strips for each band I work with. Nice and easy.

I had this problem with a QU 16 once, but only with wedges – one of the lead vocalists was cominf through the monitor so loud it was clearly audible and sounded a bit naff. Yet my faders for that monitor had zero effect. Next show, it was fine. Go figure.

Just out of interest, how did you set up the footswitch? Wouldn’t mind trying this on my QU PAC.

Just to point out there are no groups or matrices on the QU 16.

It’s a great mixer so don’t give up just yet. Sounds like you may have the FX caught in a loop where the fx is being sent and returned to itself. On your qu pad app, press fx1 (or whichever you need) on the right hand edge. TheN press fx on the left hand side to show the four returns and sends for all fx. Make sure that for fx 1, the fx1 return…[Read more]

Dave, yes 12″. The LR would be RCf HD32A and the fills HD12A – although only room for one in my car. Only one wedge on stage as 2 out of the other 3 band members use IEMs.

Thanks guys. I’m guessing the stage is about8 or 9 metres.

Yep. Just select the mix you want from the right hand side in QU Pad and treat it as if it were any other channel. You have the choice of parametric or graphic EQ on every mix, although if you are using wedges be very cautious with compression.

Just as a small side note to what Mark says, if you are using groups, make sure you apply the FX to the group and not the individual channels feeding into that group. This is because for FoH and main LR mix, it’s common to add compression and if you do this at the group level along with your FX, it means your FX are not also being compressed.…[Read more]

LOL. No change there then 🙂

I could be wrong, but I don’t think you can. 17 and 18 on Qu Drive recordings are reserved for the LR mix.

Nope. No two QU machines can be directly linked to each other. You will need analogue splitters if you wanted, for example, to run one desk as FoH and one for monitors/in-ears. I believe the SQ can however connect to a QU.

You must remember to click okay or it’s back to square one – I have done this so many times. You’d have thought I would remember by now!

Yeah I noticed this as well. I think these prices must have changed recently as when I bought my AB168 it was cheaper.