[samuel2230Participant]

Would like to flip the phase of one side of a stereo input. Only one polarity button that switches both left and right channels at the same time doesn’t help.

+1

[samuel2230Participant]

Brilliant. Thanks for this. While you’re at it, please work on the automixer parameters so it’s faster and drops less words. Rent a Yamaha QL/CL for an afternoon and put lavs on 4 people. GLD will fail to give full gain to the person talking, wiggling then around a few db down even when the other inputs are as quiet as possible. This results in inconsistent volume of the ‘hot’ channel. Yamaha is super fast, but also manages to nearly never accidentally reduce the level of the ‘hot’ channel.

[samuel2230Participant]

It should be understood that the QU/GLD meters are in analog dbu, not dbFS, so 0 is actually analog dbu zero and about -18dbFS. You can, and probably frequently should be, often going above the 0 mark on the QU. You aren’t going above digital zero until the outputs show peak…. actually, the peak light goes off a little early, at -3 db below 0dbFS. Maximum output is +22dbu, so the clip light goes off early at +19dbu. The output is about 2 db lower than a Yamaha QL/CL. I have noticed this as well. If the device you are driving will take 24db, add 2db of input gain if you want to to seem to perform similarly. Also, consider letting the peak light go off occasionally, knowing it’s probably still 3db below peak. I would prefer selectable options for just how the peak light behaves, like in avid or Digico.

[samuel2230Participant]

Just purchased a used GLD-80 (original, not Chrome) and am wondering about the black side and front bumpers.
They almost feel sticky to me. Is that normal?
They seem like they would be a dirt and dust magnet, which bugs me. My OCD kicking in.
Thanks for any help.

It’s a slightly tacky material. Works well to have your arm or wrist on. Maybe doesn’t clean off quite as easy as the metal, but it’s no big deal.

[samuel2230Participant]

This is very cool! I like how the fader banks and the channel processing board use regular USB connections. Pretty insightful pictures! Looks like there’s an extra dimm slot… I wonder what an extra gig of ram would do?!

GLD external monitor mods coming…. Haha.

[samuel2230Participant]

+1 for tab through channel labels when direct connecting keyboard.

[samuel2230Participant]

Dugan is best deployed ‘post-mute’ IMHO so the muted channels don’t contribute to the gain pool. Yamaha LS9s added this insert point just for Dugan in a software update. Allen heath should enable this, should be easy.

[samuel2230Participant]

This would be a nice addition. It wouldn’t necessarily need to be the sum of the signals in the group, but could be the hottest signal in the group instead.

If you are going to put a meter it, which doesn’t make much sense as it has no audio path, ‘hottest channel’ makes the most sense. If it sums, it has the potential to ‘clip’ a meter for a bus that doesn’t exist, which is just confusing.

[samuel2230Participant]

D-snake is 100mb not 1gb, so I suspect there might be some technical challenges at hand.

[samuel2230Participant]

Any information on this issue?

[samuel2230Participant]

I have also experienced this on my GLD-80 with the following spec:

Firmware: 1.50 rev 18502
Surface: 1.1
DSP: 1.3
Moro fader: 1.1
OS: 3.01

I was going to update after my next show. A regularly used show file comes up as corrupt and 0KB.

[samuel2230Participant]

I’d like to suggest a dSnake box with AES outs:

An “AR-84D” (digital) – two AES outs instead of 4 analog ones. Same total I/O capacity, nearly identical box hardware just one less XLR connection.

Amplifiers (Crown, Lab Gruppen, New Ashly, etc), Digital Wireless Mics (Shure ULX-D, etc), System Processors… AES is everywhere these days. SoundCraft’s new low-cost digital stage box has AES outs on the primary model. I realize there is 1 AES output at the desk, but to get that to an amp rack on stage you’d need an AES return as long as your CAT5 snake, which defeats the purpose a bit, and thats only two outputs.

If you wanted something more generally marketable, an Allen & Heath generic breakout box similar in some ways to the ME-U would get the job done also:

A 1U box with AES I/O, plus an input card slot like your ME-U for dSnake, Dante, or ACE.

I’m not a GLD owner, but if splitting via dSnake gets sorted out and an AES solution released I’d be one.

[samuel2230Participant]

Any info on whether the dsnake or monitor port can be used as a split from a GLD? This would make them a killer combo.

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