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Table Of Contents

How to Use This Reference Manual
Contents
Function Tree
SELECTED CHANNEL section
- Operations in the SELECTED CHANNEL section
Channel Strip section
- Operations in the Channel Strip section
Input and output patching
- Changing the input patch settings
- Changing the output patch settings
- Inserting an external device into a channel
- Directly outputting an INPUT channel
Input channels
- Signal flow for input channels
- Specifying the channel name, icon, and channel color
- Making HA (Head Amp) settings
- Sending the signal from an input channel to the STEREO/MONO bus
- Sending a signal from an input channel to a MIX/ MATRIX bus
- Channel name display indication
- Correcting delay between channels (Input Delay)
- Surround output for input channels
- Channel library operations
OUTPUT channels
- Signal flow for output channels
- Specifying the channel name, icon, and channel color
- Sending signals from MIX channels to the STEREO/ MONO bus
- Sending signals from MIX channels and STEREO/ MONO channels to MATRIX buses
- Correcting delay between channels (Output Delay)
- Using the PORT TO PORT function
- Channel library operations
EQ and Dynamics
- Using EQ
- Using dynamics
- Using the EQ or Dynamics libraries
Channel Job
- DCA group
- Mute group
- Using the Recall Safe function
- Channel Link function
- Copying, moving, or initializing a channel
- About Mix Minus
Scene memory
- Storing and recalling scenes
- Editing scene memories
- Using the Global Paste function
- Using the Focus Recall function
- Using the Fade function
- Outputting a control signal to an external device in tandem with scene recall (GPI OUT)
- Playing back an audio file that links to a scene recall
- Using Preview mode
Monitor and Cue functions
- Using the Monitor function
- Using the Cue function
Talkback and Oscillator
- Using Talkback
- Using the Oscillator function
Meters
- Operations in the METER screen
Graphic EQ, Parametric EQ, effects, and Premium Rack
- About the virtual rack
- Virtual rack operations
- Graphic EQ operations
- About AUTOMIXER
- Editing the internal effects
- Effects and tempo synchronization
- Using the Premium Rack
- Using the graphic EQ, parametric EQ, effect, and Premium Rack libraries
I/O devices and external head amps
- Using an I/O device
- Remotely controlling an R series unit
- Remotely controlling an amp
- Remotely controlling WIRELESS unit
- Using an external head amp
- Remotely controlling an external head amp
- Controlling an internal head amp
MIDI
- MIDI functionality on the QL series console
- Basic MIDI settings
- Using program changes to recall scenes and library items
- Using control changes to control parameters
- Using Parameter Changes to control parameters
Recorder
- About the USB memory recorder
- Assigning channels to the input/output of the recorder
- Recording audio to a USB flash drive
- Playing back audio files from a USB flash drive
- Editing the title list
- Recording or playing back using a computer DAW
- Using the QL console with Nuendo Live
Setup
- About the SETUP screen
- User settings
- Preferences
- USER DEFINED keys
- Functions that can be assigned to USER DEFINED keys
- USER DEFINED knobs
- Functions that can be assigned to USER DEFINED knobs
- Custom fader bank
- Console Lock
- Saving and loading setup data to and from a USB flash drive
- Word clock and slot settings
- Using cascade connections
- Basic settings for MIX buses and MATRIX buses
- Switching the entire phantom power supply on/ off
- Specifying the brightness of the touch screen, LEDs, channel name displays, and lamps
- Setting the date and time of the internal clock
- Setting the network address
- Setting up the Dante audio network
- Using GPI (General Purpose Interface)
Help function
- Loading a Help/text file from a USB flash drive
- Viewing Help
- Using USER DEFINED keys to recall Help directly
Other functions
- Initializing the unit to factory default settings
- Adjusting the detection point of the touch screen (Calibration function)
- Adjusting the faders (Calibration function)
- Fine-tuning the input and output gain (Calibration function)
- Adjusting the LED color (Calibration function)
- Adjusting the brightness of the channel name display
- Adjusting the contrast of the channel name display
- Initializing the Dante audio network settings
Warning/Error Messages
Index
Data List
- Contents
- EQ Library List
- DYNAMICS Library List
- Dynamics Parameters
- Effect Type List
- Effects Parameters
- Premium Rack Processor Parameters
- Parameters that can be assigned to control changes
- NRPN parameter assignments
- Mixing parameter operation applicability
- MIDI Data Format
- Input/Output Specifications
- Electrical characteristics
- Mixer Basic Parameters
- Pin Assignment Chart
- MIDI Implementation Chart

Input channels

Reference Manual

Relationship between analog and digital gain while Gain

Compensation is on

If Gain Compensation is on, adjusting the analog gain by a specific amount will cause the

I/O device to output to the audio network a signal that is attenuated by the same amount.

Therefore, the signals on the audio network will maintain a constant corrected level in the

digital domain.

For example, assume that the analog gain value has been set to +30 dB and Gain

Compensation is now turned on. Under this condition, if you raise the analog gain value to

+45 dB, the level of the signal sent to the audio network will stay at +30 dB (that is, attenuated

by –15 dB).

If the FOH console and the monitoring console are sharing one I/O device, adjusting the

analog gain on the FOH console will not affect the input level on the monitoring console. The

signal in the audio network is maintained at a constant level, and therefore increasing the

analog gain as much as possible will lower the relative noise floor and improve the S/N ratio.

The gain of each signal input to the QL series unit will be adjusted by the digital gain

parameter of the QL series console.

However, please note that if the signal is distorted due to a high level of analog gain, you must

first turn the Gain Compensation function off, set the gain to an appropriate input level, and

then turn the function back on. If you try to lower the analog gain level while the Gain

Compensation function is on, the signal on the audio network will be amplified by the same

amount due to the Gain Compensation function, and the signal will remain distorted.

NOTE

You can perform this operation rapidly if you’ve assigned Gain Compensation on/off as the SET

BY SEL function to one of the USER DEFINED keys.

Sending the signal from an input channel to the

STEREO/MONO bus

The STEREO bus and MONO bus are used to send signals to the main speakers. There are

two ways to send signals to the STEREO bus or MONO bus: ST/MONO mode and LCR

mode. You can select the mode individually for each channel. These two modes differ as

follows.

 ST/MONO mode

This mode sends signals from the input channel to the STEREO bus and to the MONO bus

independently.

• Signals sent from an input channel to the STEREO bus and to the MONO bus can be

switched on or off individually.

• The panning of a signal sent from an input channel to the STEREO bus L/R is controlled by

the TO ST PAN knob. (Signals sent to the MONO bus are not affected by this knob.)

• The left/right volume balance of a signal sent from an ST IN channel to the STEREO bus is

controlled by this knob.

If PAN/BALANCE mode is set to PAN, you will be able to adjust the pan position of signals

sent to the STEREO bus L/R individually (page 31).

 LCR mode

This mode sends input channel signals to three buses (STEREO (L/R) and MONO (C))

simultaneously.

• Signals sent from an input channel to the STEREO bus and MONO bus will be switched on

or off collectively.

• The CSR (Center Side Ratio) knob specifies the level ratio between signals sent from an

input channel to the STEREO (L/R) bus and to the MONO (C) bus.

• The TO ST PAN knob/BALANCE knob specifies the level of signals sent from an input

channel to the STEREO (L/R) bus and MONO (C) bus.

NOTE

If you want to monitor the signal of the STEREO bus or MONO bus through headphones or

similar devices, press the MONITOR button in the Function Access Area to select “LCR” as the

monitor source before you continue with the following procedure.