Building a Mix on the Allen & Heath SQ5

[@mogglie]

This is amazing I’ve been working with this mixer for four years at church. You can’t imagine how much I learn.

[@andydickinson2]

Feels just like when James came to our church about a month ago. Following these steps really helped our team create a much cleaner and more consistent mix each week! Thanks James. Thanks for all you do for the kingdom of God!!!

[@AttawayAudio]

Glad I could sow into you and your team! Keep up the good work!

[@michaeltablet8577]

Thank you very much and God bless you! Have a wonderful day!

[@AttawayAudio]

God bless you as well, Michael!

[@freewillbeatz-jd4pq]

Always Inspiring me ❤

[@bobekdj]

Awesome series, would have saved me a lot of time with our SQ6 years ago, thanks for making a great resource! Will be helpful for some of our new techs. One thing that many struggle with is changing group dynamics week to week... our singers rotate a lot and we often don't have the best track record for mic checks. Dave Rat's group compression method has helped us control the balance of vocals to instruments (etc) and allow us to help a single vocal cut through the mix while controlling overall blend and loudness when needed (and its easier for volunteers to do on the fly). For reference we run electric drums, keys or grand piano, bass, acoustic, and generally 4-6 vocals. The vocal style is more of a blend vs a lead singer and background singers since they change up who sings lead throughout the song. Would love to hear your take on this mixing strategy, strengths, weaknesses, and how it can help ministries who are not as well rehearsed as others. (I realize the glaring problem and simple solution, but sometimes we cant change people and need to work with what we have been given and still want to produce the best result possible)

[@Multi-Media-k4o]

Very good, thank you

[@justrightinmaine]

Love my SQ-5. Best board. Great vid! 👍

[@AttawayAudio]

You can never go wrong with the SQ series boards for sure!

[@UrMusicConceptz1]

Thank you Sir James

[@AttawayAudio]

You're very welcome!

[@ajarthur2437]

A&H SQ excellent digital consoles 💯👌

[@dynamix_ent1022]

Hi James, great content as always! how did you record the live band? Can you please share me how? DAW and set-up.

[@viincentfonkert2870]

I believe there is a multi-track recorder in the SQ wich you can load-in afterwards. (not a 100% sure tho!)

[@AttawayAudio]

This particular recording was done with Reaper off a SSL L200 via Dante straight off the preamps, but there are ways to do virtual sound check with the SQ Seriesl.

[@Abzshred]

awesome

[@DbiPro]

Dude you’re huge now

[@Nujola]

I’m here

[@acethawmte8896]

Hi James, we enjoyed your video. They are very informative and entertaining. My question is what system should we get for our church. We’re small church and our budget is around $10,000.00. Our decision comes down to allen&heath q5 or presonus studiolive. Thank you for your time.

[@AttawayAudio]

That depends on a lot of factors that go beyond a comment :) I do consulting if you want to email me james AT attawayaudio DOT com

[@Wes80Rob]

Commenting for the algorithm.

[@AttawayAudio]

Thank you so much! 👊

[@Pkay-xx7bf]

Does this board has any effect for bass guitars that can add sub harmonics for more oomph? Like the waves RBASS, low air plugins

[@jonathanscott5738]

I filled out the form to download the guide, but the email never came!

[@jonathanscott5738]

nevermind, it worked now!

[@gettingstarted914]

Am here

[@juniormosomi]

how do you get that dotted dynamic line on the eq?

[@AttawayAudio]

Turn on the RTA on the EQ. It was a firmware update in 2020

[@Alex_Martz]

Instead of inverting the polarity of drum mics is better to use the DELAY function as you can even measure correctly the distances between mics and align them in time/phase

[@kennyzee3221]

Man make your own video instead of crapping on someone else’s with your patronising comments.

[@AttawayAudio]

Yeah I made a video on that too :) But we're keeping it simple here

[@Alex_Martz]

@@AttawayAudio Ah great!, which one is that video?, I can't find it on your channel

[@gbolabobabafemi2566]

I'm here