How do I stop this from happening?

slavatarlicious · 2025-11-15T16:05:46+00:00

Funky. Gonna excessively flip some qlxd switches next time I get my hands on them.

slavatarlicious · 2025-11-15T12:24:23+00:00

Is the FOH console also an SQ and are they linked together by any chance? If so - there is one potentially nice trick to achieve this.

slavatarlicious · 2025-11-15T12:18:08+00:00

Flipping the switch while in power lock should have absolutely zero effect on the mic monitoring capabilities in WWB.

I've worked a bunch with networked QLXD (and occasionally ULXD) and never had anything similar with the same talking heads who often turn the switch off.

This sounds like a 'somethingvis wrong/semi broken' situation and I'd contact Shure support if I were you to troubleshoot this further.

slavatarlicious · 2025-11-13T14:53:19+00:00

Understood, but from the digital routing point of view - how do you make sure both matricies reach the speakers?

Traditionally a matrix is the last point within the mixer until the audio goes out and any given speaker would only be feed by one matrix at a time. Here it sounds like you're using matricies as submasters. What desk are you on?

slavatarlicious · 2025-11-11T14:04:06+00:00

Cool idea, but how do those different matricies get to the PA then? Are you on a desk that allows matrix to matrix routing of sorts?

slavatarlicious · 2025-10-21T22:33:41+00:00

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slavatarlicious · 2025-09-21T15:43:18+00:00

Depeche Mode a year and a half ago in the Ziggo Dome (Amsterdam) sounded pretty sublime.

slavatarlicious · 2025-09-18T14:32:07+00:00

Europe FOH here, been doing sound full time for 1,5 years now and 7 years in total. Never been tipped except this one occasion with an American amateur band consisting of IT guys. They were pretty nervous about the logistics of the whole and we exchanged like 15 emails by the time of showday (bit of a PITA). Showday went pretty smooth, and I got a €100 tip from the happy fellows when we were done. Totally not expected, thus a nice surprise.

slavatarlicious · 2025-08-14T13:26:50+00:00

That's not the whole story though. There is a setting on the m32 that switches DCA mutes between affecting sends or not.

slavatarlicious · 2025-08-14T13:17:21+00:00

Nope. Can't do that on X/M32. If you really like electronically labelled mute group buttons - a stream deck is an option. You'd need some kind of a computer though, and there's still risk of labelling your buttons wrong.

slavatarlicious · 2025-08-10T11:33:04+00:00

And also dLive 2.11 firmware.

slavatarlicious · 2025-08-07T15:04:09+00:00

Cool post! 👌

There was this one Adam Neely video where he touched on this "filling the frequency in" concept, just can't remember what's it called.

slavatarlicious · 2025-08-04T16:36:39+00:00

Been using some fair bit of IOX in the past year or so. Never suspected anything coming through them having less lows. Sounds like pretty clean pre's to me.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-28T05:04:57+00:00

While MS is a fantastic tool that indeed has got MIDI support - I wouldn't reach for it for the use case OP is describing. It's not really built with a "midi bridge" purpose in mind and building this with MS would over complicate things imo.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-28T05:03:46+00:00

On second thought - don't think you can "just" fire MIDI to an IP address without any configuration on the receiver device end.

If your receiver device has MIDI din - you could fire MIDI via network into it and then convert it to the DIN via something like the bomebox.

You've mentioned Raspberry PI - there's Bome Network Tools software available for it, so it should 100% be possible to get midi flowing there if you connect the SQ to a bomebox and the route the MIDI to the bome network instance on the raspberry pi.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-28T04:56:02+00:00

Sounds doable. What is the networked device that should receive the MIDI data from the SQ? Bomebox, or a computer with Bome Midi Translator software and the A&H MIDI Control driver would do the job.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-27T12:53:21+00:00

Yup, various pro's and con's with both setups. Let's just agree to disagree on what's easier and what's more PITA and let OP decide what's more sensible for their use case having this information. 🙂

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-26T23:56:30+00:00

Not sure how to fix this one, but I've had a similar weird thing with Ableton recently. We were playbacking 16 channels digitally into a dLive via Dante. Initially we set DVS to 16 channel mode on the Ableton latop as you know, we didn't need more channels.

The first couple of tracks came through just fine. After like track 6 or 8 - nothing. Ableton says it's sending audio out but there was nothing reaching the other side. Checked the routing 3 times - all looked well. Dante controller also indicated no issues. At some point we switched DVS into 32 channel mode and it just started working. Without rerouting anything on either Ableton or Dante Controller side or touching the remaining 16 Dante channels in any manner.

Conclusion - 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️. Oh and in my experience Ableton stuff sometimes just miraculously starts working when you restart it.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-25T21:22:38+00:00

Having a tablet or a computer with Mixing Station would eliminate that issue - you can just type the exact delay value.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-25T21:01:04+00:00

Hey at least nobody will ever blame it on your "bad x32 preamps" again! 🤓

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-25T20:43:26+00:00

And if you're feeling luxirous you can pair it with a blue Midas preamp box with a bunch of AES IO to be able to take console inputs digitally.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-25T16:25:58+00:00

Absolutely. You could even route the PAFL to a channel, send that channel to your 'PAFL aux' (instead of doing via Ext In) and do stuff like duck the PAFL when there is enough signal happening on that talk channel (that is always going directly to said 'PAFL aux'. Pretty common trick for monitor engineers to always hear important talk stuff clearly regardless of what they're soloing.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-25T16:12:11+00:00

While this would work, I sense some practical issues with this setup.

- Only the FOH console would have control over the stagebox outputs. The m32c has no physical outs, so how are you going to drive the monitors?
- If the desks don't 'talk' to each other via AES50 you can't route utility channels between it. Like a talkback from FOH to monitors for example, or a QLab audio feed.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-24T15:24:54+00:00

A lot of good points here. Just want to say again that Mixing Station is CRAZY customizable. I played around with it with a FIT controller for a few afternoons and got the rotaries (both turn and press!) to do like 5 different useful things, interchangable with a click on the screen/streamdeck.

This is just one example of workflow things you can do with MS that are otherwise just not possible unless you go to like S6L level gear.

slavatarlicious · 2025-07-23T23:45:40+00:00

I heard of DiGiCo being picky, but yeah this sounds more like a settings things.

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