I’m with you on everything you said. I’m a little less than a year into my SQ6, and though I’m enjoying the tone, It took a few gigs to get used to it. Part of my problem is that I tried to do too much too soon. I setup submixes with eq and effects, which sounds like a great studio idea, but it took a bit to get used to it live. for example: I had the drums all submixed and I used a compressor to parallel crush the kit, cool. then I added an eq to boost low end, cut low mids and boost highs, things I do on drum channels anyway…but I forgot that I did that and really fought with the kick drum eq especially. just too much bass. lol. my bad on that one. I also was used to the channel gain structure of the X32, so it took me a minute to figure out that I had to pad the kick channel even though it wasn’t showing a clip light.
I bought the compressor add on pack. It did kinda tweak me the wrong way that it cost that much more after paying that much for the mixer. I got this instead of the Wing. I would like the EQ pack, but I just can’t justify it yet.
