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2023/07/20 at 5:22 pm #113808
Very good idea,
D.
2023/07/09 at 3:39 pm #113615“Does this mean I have to remember to check phantom power each time this needs to happen?”
Well, I think I have been clear in my opinion on that question.
If I can, I will power off P48 before I unplug a mic, any mic. And I try and always plug the mic in before I power up (mostly just by powering up or down the panel). But if I forget, or turning off P48 isn’t practical in the moment, I have little fear about hot patching my mics. Just a matter of risk/reward and my current (sorry!) path works for me.
D.
2023/06/29 at 4:27 pm #113510“What’s the danger?”
Some say there is, even to the newest dynamics and condensers. Some say there isn’t.
It is quite a jarring jolt to plug a mic into an input with active P48 I would think but is it softer with pushing the button? Unknown to me. I used to never concern myself with it as a problem, but my boss and mentor insists on never hot-patching a mic and I have taken up the habit.
All this and $4.98 will buy you a Starbuck.
D.
2023/05/30 at 6:01 pm #113105Just to follow up, from Brett at Audinate:
If it’s a Dante hardware device, chances are it has the SiLabs clock chip we use in all the boards.
Unless the manufacturer created their own design.
Use the Dante card for clock in all your devices, and let them figure out who should be the leader. Our election process will figure it out based on chipset and serial number.
I will use the “I/O Card” setting for my SQ and let the Dante card sync the panel whether it is in the network or stand-alone. Easy answer.
D.
2023/05/29 at 3:51 pm #113083Sorry that has gotten contentious, but no, my question has not been answered.
In the case of Dante Virtual Soundcard, the computer’s clock will be used.
Not interested in any answers about DVS. I already know those and at least in my MBP, I always need another clock source for DVS. The MBP will not clock a network through DVS.
If I linked two SQ panels on my network, both panels would be slaves, clocked by the Dante card in one of my Graces. The Audinate hardware would provide the sync. There is NO external sync source in my network. All units are clocked via Dante.
I think, in puzzling this out, that the setting that I am speaking of has nothing to do with clocking when the SQ is attached to a Dante network and only when it is self-standing, including locking two panels together NOT on a Dante network (when using SLink or the like, which I don’t use). When self-standing, I think the SQ would be happy with either sync source; the Internal or the I/O card, and in fact, shows a green check when set with either choice.
My mistake was thinking that the SQ sync setting had anything to do with sync in a Dante setup.
D.
2023/05/28 at 6:21 pm #113072Nope, Steffen. From Audinate:
“Dante Clock Types
Each Dante hardware device can derive its clock from either its high-quality onboard clock circuit, or an externally connected word clock. In the case of Dante Virtual Soundcard, the computer’s clock will be used.”True that the DVS and at least my MBP controller needs some other device for a clock source. Dante Via will provide a clock from the MBP however.
So, that being said, I always use my first Grace m108 for the Dante clock master. Should I set the clock source for the SQ to “I/O Card”? Like I said, until I discovered that there were two possible settings, the SQ has been set to “Internal” for as long as I have owned it with no apparent clocking issues. If there is no issue with this setting, either as a member of my Dante network or as a stand-alone mixing panel, why are there two possible settings instead of just Internal?
Keith, would you like to take a stab at this question. I have a note into Brett at Audinate as well. Jusy trying to nail this down to add to my mental Dante tool kit.
D.
2023/05/27 at 7:21 pm #113058So there are two digital clocks in my SQ6 (and I may be repeating something that those who are reading this thread already understand); the internal clock in the SQ6 and the clock in the Dante card always installed in the SQ6. Either clock is more than likely to be adequate for the clocking needs on any setup.
Here is my question as distilled as I can make it this morning; Is there any need (“need” not advantage) for me to use one clock or the other as selectable in the SQ’s setup menu, either Internal or I/O Card, for any particular use of the SQ? To muddy the waters more, does my Dante network care which clock is selected in the SQ? Or will either provide the same functionality for accurate clocking when the SQ is attached to my Dante network? Or, any need to set the clock in the SQ to either/or for any reason, or just leave it set on one or the other with no ill effects in any setup, using either clock source for either Dante or non-Dante usage?
Probably driving myself a bit nutty here but I don’t want to find myself with a clocking mistake for simply never having asked the question.
Oh, and selecting the SQ as the “Master Clock” in a Dante network, the clock is the one in the Dante I/O card, not the internal clock in the SQ.
D.
2023/05/26 at 3:45 pm #113046Thanks Brian. I get the part about how my SQ6 syncs with my Dante network and sometimes I run my Dante network at 48k and sometimes at 96k. All depends on the job. But everything attached to the SQ in the network is capable of running at 96k.
My question is about the bast place for the SQ to get its 96k master sync rate; the internal clock or the Dante card? I have been running the SQ with its sync source set to Internal for quite a while with no seeming ill effects, But now I see that I could be running it with sync from the Dante card. The card is always in the SQ. Should I change it for any reason from Internal to I/O? Should I change the setting if I am or am not using the panel in a Dante network or as an independent mixer unit? Or should I just leave it alone since it seems to work? I am mostly just curious about “best practices”.
D.
2023/05/10 at 9:57 pm #112834I know that there are a lot of choices of media out there but can I ask why getting a reliable recording on the SQ could possibly take 34 pages of discussion? I have other recorders that don’t have nearly the reliability issues that my SQ does using a wide variety of media. Every time I think there is some consensus on what works, someone comes on the forum to find out why their “very important” recording went missing.
Maybe I should ask in the Feature Suggestions forum but how about A&H figure out what to recommend for a bomb-proof recording media and end the questions, guesses, and heartbreak of recording off the SQ. My boss has a Presonus panel and while I think that it mostly doesn’t hold a candle to my SQ, every time we ask it to make a multi-track recording, it does so without fail. Hmmm. Fix this please.
I still don’t feel safe recording from the SQ.
D.
2023/04/22 at 11:48 pm #112546Thanks to all the folks at A&H for the quick fix.
D.
2023/04/19 at 2:10 am #112478Phase reverse XLR barrel?
D.
2023/03/26 at 12:00 am #112140Crisis averted!
D.
2023/03/24 at 2:40 am #112120Yeah, that is a problem. Ugh!
D.
2023/03/22 at 3:27 pm #112099Ugh, and I know this is maybe not the answer you are looking for. And it costs bux. But might consider getting a Dante card for your SQ. Dante out to a laptop with a Virtual Sound Card and Reaper.
This will kill the proverbial “two birds” allowing you to back up to SQ Drive.
Just a thought.
D.
2023/03/16 at 1:51 am #112010The OWC Mercury On-The-Go 1TB SSD seems to have faired just as well. 32-tracks of 24/48, two-hour recording. All files downloaded and played back in Reaper.
A couple of on-the-job tests sohould be enough to restore my confidence in recording on the SQ.
D.
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