Allen & Heath SQ Input Processing

[@jimlayton9346]

If you are moving up from a lesser mixer, study up. I've had church guys get so lost they totally screwed up "everything". This is one of the best values in digital mixers and the suppirt is award-winning. I own my own rigs for punk/indie/metal events. You can work with any type of performance with this beauty. Plus you can download the A&H zero latency add-ons, Waves, etc. I've been using hardware tube compressors live. Really fun and sounds great provided your PA is adequate.

[@Ross.Schumaker]

I'd love to learn more about setting up a post fader aux mix on the A&H SQ board for a separate broadcast mix from the FOH mix. Keep up the great vids!! 👍

[@AttawayAudio]

Coming soon!

[@ajarthur2437]

This is what we've used on our SQ6 for several years to feed our stream mix and it works really great. There are only minimal/occasional adjustments that we need to make to the Aux stream mix from week to week depending on who's singing and playing that week.

[@jonness76]

Thank you for creating this content! Please keep it coming.

[@jimmyweaver5843]

Thank you for adding the organization part into the video. For some reason my church has zero organizing. The signal path is all crisscrossed every which way. If we ever have a problem it’s a nightmare troubleshooting anything… thanks again for all the work you put into these videos.

[@AttawayAudio]

I try to address the problems I find in the wild :) I'm a big fan of Stephen Covey's book "7 habits of highly effective people" and "design it on paper first" is one that REALLY comes in handy for church sound setups

[@Nujola]

Keep them coming

[@jimpemberton]

The parallel compressor is a powerful tool and can be used for all kinds of things. I've done parallel compression on consoles that didn't have it by duplicating channels and doing two different levels of compression on each one. Mex them together for the same kind of effect that you can get here. Two things I use them for is on the worship leader and the pastor. For the worship leader, I have additional vocalists on handheld mics ("praise team") as well as a choir. I can blend the praise team with the choir, but then use parallel compression on the worship leader to bring his voice out front just a bit. For the pastor, who has quiet moments and loud moments, I use parallel compression to essentially compress from the bottom up which allows me to control his dynamic range so his quiet moments aren't too quiet and his loud moments aren't too loud, but I still get all the life in his voice on top of the compression. I maintain a range of 62 - 72 dBa on him. Without parallel compression, it would be a much broader range.

[@polygonalmasonary]

‘PAD’ = ‘passive attenuation device’. Analogy, does to your sound signal what a tap does to a flow of water, turns down the pressure. 👍🙏🇬🇧♥️🌈

[@jimpemberton]

I'm running an A&H - I have an SQ7 in our children's wing, but I run a dLive in the Worship center. The trim is helpful for solving signal distribution issues. If FOH has control of the gains, monitors or streaming can have a separate adjustment for their level. Let's say that the PA is a little overpowered for the room and FOH has set a good gain level, but has turned their trim down to compensate. Monitors or streaming might not have enough signal. With this function, they can turn their trim up and get that signal strength back to where it needs to be for them. They can also turn on gain following where if FOH needs to make gain adjustments their trim will automatically adjust to maintain the same level. I think this is a surface setting on the SQ rather than a channel setting like it is on the dLive.

[@changgooey]

is there a video where you break down audio termoligy and there meaning like depth, ratio, and hold and etc

[@gettingstarted914]

Thank you

[@chrischoemortgage]

James, if I’m adopting a board that has the inputs setup not optimally but I have all the Gain, Eq, Comp setup. Is there a way to save them by each channel so that I can then delete and reorder the inputs correctly instead of redoing the gain and sound check with the band? Also trying to avoid having the band redo their in ear mixes too.

[@AttawayAudio]

You could use the library to save the processing settings and recall on the new channel, but not the routing settings (for monitors) as far as I've been able to figure out.

[@chrischoemortgage]

@@AttawayAudio bummer. That was my hope! I'll take a picture of everyone's mixes then. Thanks again James for serving the community!

[@brianlebrun2382]

Great video. I'm on staff at my church running an SQ7. Given that every soundman likes a different level of input gain, where do you like to set yours? I try to keep mine between 0 and -10dB but I've spoken with others who've said they'd never have in up as high as -10dB. I did notice on Sunday that one mic was peaking at 0dB and clipping a little. I trimmed it down and that took care of it. Any thoughts? Keep this stuff coming!

[@AttawayAudio]

If it's a more transient-type input, I like it to hit around -12 to -6 dBFS, which is in the +6 to +12 territory on the SQ metering. For sounds that have higher average-to-peak levels, 0 dB is good... or wherever green turns to yellow :)

[@Nujola]

Hi James please be the one to give me a reason to buy the sq pack by previewing them. I know that’s probably 5 lessons away

[@AttawayAudio]

Definitely want to do that.

[@dynamix_ent1022]

​@@AttawayAudio how do you set delay on SQ5 for speaker delays ranging 50-ft outdoor from the FOH?

[@AttawayAudio]

@josephbisenio4984 easiest way is to use a matrix and use the delay on the processing page... you'll use about 45-50ms of delay if it's 50 ft. away depending on the temperature (1.1 ft. per ms, or .89ms per foot)

[@dynamix_ent1022]

@@AttawayAudio thank you! How about using reverbs on stage wedges? If the vocalist want a reverb do you use insert effects per channel? What's the best way to do it? Also, I learned reverbs are more prone to feedback 'cause there's a tail of frequency and is impossible to cut. How do you deal with this? I use SQ5.