[sld777Participant]

Thank you Mike and xyz ! You guys have been very generous in your responses.By following your advice and thorough explanations I should be up and running.

I have assignment due 31st Jan so once submitted I plan to put all your information into practice.

I will plan to report back (with favourable results) in the first week of Feb.

Thanks!

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Here’s a pic of what I’m working with. Thought it would be nice to share as appreciate all the help.

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Hi xyz, thanks for your input!

Yes, I am hoping to bring send the looper’s output back into the QU16. If the 1/4 inputs on the RC505 are unbalanced in what way do I need to be careful? (Sorry all new to me)

I had not thought of using the Q16 2track to instrument!

I’m not aware of how this works. So signal wise this would mean no adapters and unbalanced output on QU16 to unbalanced input on RC505. Sounds good so far. Would I be able to send individual channels at a time or does it send everything from main mix?

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Thanks Mike for reminding me of the XLR stereo sub mixes! I will use one of these to feed left and right 1/4 inch inputs on the RC505.

My only remaining question would be is there a way to copy the main mix straight to my sub mix?

That would help streamline the workflow.

Then I would mute all tracks in the sub mix apart from whatever I wanted to send to RC505 to loop.

Regarding looper output, I’ve been wondering how best to do this. It will be coming back into the mixer. I will mute it on the submix but then when I’m unsure of the most streamlined method. If I unmute a channel on submix to send eg keyboard I will also hear that in the LR mix at the same time. So I would need to do some quick fire muting and unmuting to keep consistent levels and uninterrupted sound.

Maybe I’ll get the cabling set up then worry about the second! 🙂

[sld777Participant]

Thanks for your quick and detailed replies.

(It’s my first time using the forum. Also, I’ve been snowed under with uni assignments so apologies for my late reply).

Yes, I am planning to use sub-mixes from the QU16 rater than the ALT OUT as I have guitar, bass, vocals and many digital instruments.

Shame I can’t go from submix straight into mic input on RC505 as I already have many XLRs.

Would the volume be too loud if I went straight in?

An attenuator as you suggested would be ok if they made one that was a tiny IN/OUT box rather than an adapter.

Do you know if they make such a thing? Would the sound quality be the same as using 1/4 stereo inputs?

…So I guess the easiest solution would be a female XLR from QU16 submix to two stereo 1/4 inch into the RC505.

Something like this?

or

this?

Thanks again for your help!

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