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Thanks a lot for the feedback. I will manually switch the cables out when I need to. It’s a minor inconvenience but nothing more.

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Aha! Thank you. It is fixed now.

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I looked at this menu and saw this but it looks OK. Am I looking in the wrong menu?
Link to pic: https://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=24x2mv9&s=9#.XJAJFy0VRhE

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Hey Mark,
I’m sorry for the really late reply. Ableton is coming in thru Channels 1 and 2 on the Qu32. I just panned Channel 1 to the hard left and Channel 2 to the hard right and I can hear my panning in my headphones now. As a result of this process, I now realize that I had never been panning anything out of my regular speakers either until now, Doh!

On another note, do you recommend a dedicated Headphone amplifier or is the Qu’s output good enough?

Thanks,
Nakul

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Ooh, that’s a really tempting idea, Scott. I’ve been returning a lot of stuff on Amazon as of late, I might go ahead and go through with your suggestion!

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Thank you for the tips! I ended up returning the Pyle and getting this one which had Phantom power: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017HMD258/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It seems to work right when I have momentary latch on AND the Talk button pressed on my device. I don’t know if there’s any consequence to doing it this way so I’ve been leaving the talk button off on the Qu when I don’t have inter-room communication going on.

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Thanks for the responses. I am getting more comfortable using my device as a result of your insights. The Qu-You is fantastic. I think I am making progress, but I wonder if I’ve been going in the right direction.

Because my setup is purely a recording one, I only monitor with headphones. I only have speakers in my tracking room to listen back after the fact.

I’ve got 2 PA’s in my small tracking room that connect to my Qu-32 which is in my control room. The sound going into those PA’s would be the sound coming out of Ableton to listen back after the fact. I am using Matrix outputs 1 and 2 for those.

I’ve got my first four Mix-outs going into my tracking room as a means for the recording artists to hear the click track from Ableton/talkback microphone. For these purposes, the headphones already play sound back without a headphone amplifier. I do wish that my artists could control the levels of individual Ableton tracks. Is this possible?

Many thanks,
Nakul

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Or you could just not turn on your speakers.

That’s what I was doing before. It did work, although turning stuff on and off repeatedly isn’t my favorite solution. I’m eager to try Dick Rees’s solution when I have time to reconfigure my studio again. For now, the AltOuts are working great though.

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Ah, thank you for the tips Dick Rees! It is greatly appreciated. I will try this out soon when I replug my XLRs in (I had switched over to the ALT setup). Happy Thanksgiving!

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Thanks for the tips! Yes, I’ll be using a passive pick-up guitar for recording. I just bought this Active DI Box. I hope that’ll do the trick. https://www.amazon.com/Behringer-GI100-BEHRINGER-ULTRA-G/dp/B000CCN15M/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1542910951&sr=8-5&keywords=Behringer+active+di

What I plan on doing is connecting the guitar/effects pedals into the DI Box via instrument cable, and then applying phantom power.

Thanks,
Nakul

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Garyh, it doesn’t work out that way. It mutes everything including the headphones. Using the ALT outputs works as a workaround though (I can adjust the ALT out knob in the headphone portion of the board).

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Since I am using an unbalanced line TS cable, I am assuming that I cannot not plug into one of the regular 32 quarter-inch input jacks.

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Thank you! Switching to TRS cables outputting from the ALT section works like a charm.

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Airckess, precisely! The task couldn’t be simpler, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out using the Main L/R outputs.

I’ve tried debzdoodle’s suggestion, which involves using the ALT Outs instead of the main L/R outputs. That seems to work, but I am one TRS cable short so I am waiting on Amazon.

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I’m sorry, I still don’t understand. How do I mute the mains? Debzdooble, are you suggesting that I disconnect my speakers from the Main LR and connect them to the Alt-Out connections so that I can use the knob? I’d have to buy a few cables to make that configuration work since the connectors are different…

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