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.

You’ll need some form of amplification as the signal is only line level from the mix outs. I use a Behringer Powerplay P1 for my drummer and he loves it. Cheap and well built. I also connect just a mono mix for this, you can connect a stereo mix as well if the application absolutely has to have…[Read more]

Mark, my wife says I’m quicker at a lot of things!

Hi Dado

All doable and very easy! In turn…

1. Yes. Press the FX1 button, raise the master level of the reverb and then raise the faders on the inputs you need the reverb on.
2. Yes. Keep all the other input faders at the bottom (the infinity symbol)
3. Yes. Press the mix you want. Then go to the top layer of the faders by pressing the top…[Read more]

Actually, just read on the A&H site it says you can connect to another AB168 so not sure where I got the above from.

I’m not 100% certain, but I vaguely remember reading that you cannot link two AB168 Dsnakes. I think you can have one AR84 linked to your initial AB168 though. Perhaps A&H will clarify this?

This happened to me once on a QU-16, suspiciously the very next gig after I did an OS update on the iPad. It only ever happened that one time, and it was during sound check so I rebooted the desk and all was well. At another venue, I couldn’t connect to my QU-PAC at all which was a little concerning, but I put this down to heavy WiFi traffic at…[Read more]

No worries dcer10!
On the left hand side of the desk there are two grey buttons directly beneath the HPF control – one is PreFade, the one under that Assign. Make sure you are in the main LR mix (blue button on right hand side, then press the green Select button). Now press the grey Assign button and all the green Select buttons above each channel…[Read more]

Your source ch19 needs to be unassigned from LR.This wouldn’t affect the source being sent to mix 5&6.

Re empty FX racks, no. I think this may have been intended as a placeholder just to show the FX rack is available for use. All the FX are internal and as far as I know can only be updated if and when (now unlikely) A&H issued new FX via a…[Read more]