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Thanks. Does the Gator Rack allow the QU16 to remain connected up to items in the rack below when it is closed up?

Paul

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It’s also pretty hard to set accidentally – you have to hold the on-screen “button” down for a few seconds.

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You can send the built in pink noise generator to the house mains. Then connect your reference mike (the Behringer ECM8000 is a low cost option) to the desk in the usual fashion with phantom power on and EQ off. Then PAFL the channel and look at it using either the RTA or waterfall screen on the Home button.

Alternatively you can use the desk as a “soundcard” for a pc/mac over USB and use something like Room EQ Wizard to make measurements https://www.roomeqwizard.com/

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For completeness, it was PSU failure. A capacitor had gone short circuit on the -15v analogue rail. Not exactly a cheap repair……

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Sadly a reinstall didn’t work. I put a scope on an output and got 50Hz square waves at +10 to -4v, even with the desk shutdown prior to mains off. Sounds like a PSU problem to me……

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Mark
Thanks – wiill try a reinstall.

I’m based near Southampton.

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John
Sorry to have to correct you but you don’t need to buy an extra USB audio interface. As others have stated below, you just connect your pc to the USB port on the back of the QU32 and it appears as a 32 channel sound card. You select the L&R channel from the QU32 in your favourite recording software and away you go.

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What is the context of your user base? When I introduced the QU32 to our church, my volunteers were used to an analog A&H GL2200 so I produced the following videos to help them out.

Whether they are “great” is up to you (they could definitely be better) but they seem to have been popular.

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As Bob points out, it is really good for situation where multiple people are speaking or could speak.

I would use it more if it were more flexible in it’s application – on a QU32, only having it on channels 1 to 16 is a real pain in a installation set-up where all my team expect channels 1 to 16 to be instruments and vocals. Yes, I could go and change it all but I am hoping that A&H will make the simple software change to allow it to be used on other channels. As mentioned before, having it on banks of 8 channels would be fine – ie say 1-8 and 17-24. Even having it on either 1-16 or 17-32 would be a useful improvement.

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You could always save a separate scene or a just a channel library and switch that for each vocalist.

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It depends upon what you want to do. If, like me, all you want to do is control the volume of the various “groupings” wrt each other, then DCAs are a lot easier to use. Think of the DCA as volume control which is applied equally to all the other levels in that DCA group. Say you have an acoustic guitar with a post fader level of -6dB, and an electric guitar with a post fader level of -8dB. You put them in a DCA group with its level set to say -3dB. Therefore, the acoustic guitar will end up with a level of -9dB and the electric at -11dB.

The groups are different on the QU series. They act more like the Mix outputs (indeed the QU24 and 32 have dedicated group outputs) which can be routed to LR. If you are just using the group master to set the overall level, then you need to first set up the faders for all the channels you want to use on that group and then change the group master. There is a lot more chance of finger trouble. Other than this “flexibility”, the only advantage that groups give is that you can apply EQ/delays to each group. For just changing the balance of volumes, this is not needed.

Assigning a channel to a DCA is no different to a group.

Hope that helps. I was an analogue desk user until earlier this year having never used a digital desk before. Once I got my head around the basics, I was impressed how easy it is to use the QU series. Using an analogue desk now seems like the dark ages.

If it helps, I produced some training videos for my team. They have proved to be remarkably popular given their dubious quality (I really should have written a script first). They can be found here

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Are you using Alt-Out? If not, you can use it to give a copy of the main output with the advantage of a volume control on the front panel.

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Faced with a similar decision, I used DCAs instead. I put key elements onto individual DCAs and adjust the volume of them via DCAs. To make it easier to get to them, I made a custom layer with the DCAs replaced some of the generally unused channels on my QU32.

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I had the same problem soon after upgrading to v1.8. I found that I could “reset” the problem by pulling out the Ethernet lead from the QU-32 which lead me to consider it was a network problem with the QU32. I also spotted that the IP address allocated by DHCP did not always respond to a ping. So I set my desk to have a fixed IP address and all was well.

My QU-32 is on a fixed network where the DHCP is provided by a pair of Windows Server 2012 boxes, with wireless being delivered by an Apple Airport Extreme. Not wishing to change any of that network, I thought the fixed IP was a safer option.

I didn’t have the problem with DHCP with v1.7

Paul

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Guys
Thanks for the advice but I really want to know if there is any expectation that AMM will be updated in the future since the current implementation strikes me as just a quick fix to a gui problem of not being able to fit in a means of how to change channels on the AMM interface. Perhaps naively, I cannot see why there is a physical reason for restricting AMM to the first 16 channels.

Yes I could repatch/relabel but it is not a trivial job since most of my patch panel is normalised from floor boxes to input channels. Hence I will end up either using a heck of a lot of patch leads or having very illogical allocations of labels for the input channels. Sure a professional might cope but putting more pressure on a volunteer team is not somewhere I want to go – especially if I find I don’t have to in the next SW iteration.

Cheers

Paul

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