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If you need an auto mix function you shouldn't be a sound engineer in the first place 😂😂😂😂

Don't remenber if you mentioned it, but after a reset (normal on every corporate Job) the Automixer AMM does not affect the Auxes. Only AMM to Mains LR, maybe Groups. WHAAAAAT. There is a spezial Setting that needs to be set somewhere in Monitoring or so to make the AMM work on Auxes. Complete garbage this desk. Did like 3 Jobs on it, will never do one on it again. I strictly refuse Jobs with these desks.

I think I just accidentally found out how to fix my popping issues by watching your video, after trying a lot of things that didn't work. You are the best!

I totally agree with your observations, the GUI is a real piece of shit!

Just a two things: 1) compare SQ-series patching system with M32/X32 patch - which of them is pure hell?? :-D 2) SQ-7 have nearly all possibilites and functions (except a few buses and few matrixes) as a Yamaha QL5 - but the price tag of A&H (including SQ DANTE 64 card) is something bit under EUR 7.000,- and QL price is ca. EUR 19.000,- :-D Uncomparable!! NEVE Portico Premium rack plugins are beautiful, but... 😕

The software on this board absolutely murders me...mixing station helps a lot but holy hell man

Ya its pretty funny how many people disagree with this guy. I am one of them. SQ is best in class for sure.

Maybe they will listen and make the next one better.

5:43 is enough to disqualify this entire video. Even though having some X32/M32/X-air editor open in the background probably is enough already too, among so many other things. You're compensating being shit at your job with terrible "hot takes" like this.

THANKS BRO! SUPER HELPFUL !

This videos trash!

Don’t think I’d hire this guy

And again just like the Midas mixers : whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy is it that the lay out of the screens are soooo 1990 ? Look at the font !!!! I mean LOOK AT IT !!!1 My Motif XF8 looks even more crispy !!!! And that thing is frommmmm jeeeeeeez 2010 ??? LOOK AT IT !!!! Why is that I mean this is not the first production company who does that if EVERYTHING is digital why is it that these control panels in the mixer itself look SOOOOO ancient why is that ?????? They can program ANYTHING they want I mean ANYTHING ! And then it looks like that ? Jeeeeezus christ on a crutch !!!! Yeah I rather stare the entire at some 250 kilo's yanks at the mall if ya know what I am saying now luckily for me I don't need to because I don't even want to be found DEAD in yankland buttttttttttttttt jeeeeez look at it !!!!!!!!!!! it could NOT be LESS visual attractive the car brand guys need to sit together at one table with these guys to actually tell them how to make screens worth more then 10 bucks !!!!! Sighhhhh Midas .... is that yank based or ? Naaaaaaa I will check google ...... if this is also yank based just like Presonus and Allen and heath then it makes sense listen yanks : THIS IS NOT 1990 ANYMORE !!!! THIS IS 2024 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If it ain't Dutch it ain't much and it PROVES ONES AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a rubbish !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To add my six pence, the mixer sounds great once you have worked out a scene and patch settings. Is it quick to initially setup, Hell no, is it any different to any other digital mixer nope. They all have different work flows and all engineers have a particular way they like to work. I haven't used many of the major expensive brands pretty much stuck to low / medium versions of A&H, Yamaha, Midas, PreSonus, Soundcraft, Berry and even QSC and they all to me sound good, but getting there is another thing. His wording is dumb as hell but in terms of workflow, this mixer is tedious sometimes.

What I take from this video is that this is a fantastic mixer that YOU don't know how to use properly. You go completely overboard on small things you see as faults and then are very brief and gloss over things you do like. I have done some very basic through to some VERY complex shows with these. Only a few weeks ago, I had two SQ7, one with a second Slink in the IO port. We had 48 channels running flawlessly into the monitor board (24 local and 24 on slink1) and then all 48 sent down slink2 to the other SQ7 out at FOH. All the mixes from FOH (Left, Right, left fills, right fills and subs) were then sent back the other way, from FOH back to the monitor desk and routed to physical outputs at the monitor board so we could plug the PA up. We also routed talkback mics to physical outputs on the opposite desk so we could connect speakers and talk to each other. The whole thing was set up and working in a very short space of time. I cannot stress this enough... these desks are AMAZING for their price bracket, people SHOULD buy them and you should learn how to use one properly.

Bro really living up to his channel name. The current and only digital consoles I've ever mixed on are the Allen & Heath dLive (school), SQ5 (school portable), Avantis (church), and the Behringer x32 (Church). I've mixed on logic pro for a short time, but I never fully learned it before we got the Avantis.

The way of showcasing the sense could make some more professional look. Please, show your correct attitude. Do not showcase unpleasant guy. Thank you. P.S. despite the video sense, turned off at the 1m27sec, because of the approach. Best Regards

I own the allenheath for years. Never have any problems with it. What are you talking about?

I connected 2 exactly like the video. Unit 2 is creating a ton of clicking noise

Live sound is not DAW mixing !!! This dude knows nothing about LIVE SOUND SIGNAL FLOW! He mentions trying to insert a graphic equalizer on a single channel. Imagine if you had to do that to a dozen different podium Mics how much processing with that take🥴 not to mention Ewing, the Mike individually interrupts the recording process chain everything that happens for the house will be permanently on the recording that’s done separately newbie 😵‍💫

Why do you look like The Deep

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I happen to really like the SQ series and use it often. That being said, I love this review and review format. I see it as a little bit of hyperbole while bringing up excellent points. As a heavy user of the SQ, I think almost all of his points are valid. I probably would have added metering as another area that is inferior to similar class consoles (even the X32/M32 has better meters). Even though I love working on the desk, I think it's good to objectively look at things with a critical eye. It's still a great mixer even with it's flaws. This review was entertaining and accurate. :)

Anyone who would listen to this tool shed after his going full on Karen bitching about this mixer 🙄

Some people are just not cut out to be audio engineers.

How do I get this idiot to stop spamming every A&H search? It's just opinionated drivel and it comes up on EVERY SQ search

You are TOTALLY wrong at every angle! I currently own Allen Heath Mixers including SQ 5 and SQ 6, QU-SB. I love them and HATE HATE HATE the workflow of Midas/X32 mixers! Plus the Allen Heath preamps are truly transparent and awesome! There are many many reasons I only use A&H. Yes there are a few things I would like on the A&H mixers, especially in regards to their ipad control software. Note that I have used or owned MANY digital mixers including Soundcraft, Mackie DL1608/DL32, Behringer Xair, QSC Touchmix etc etc.. No brands are perfect, but A&H nails it for sound, workflow and quality.

All sound like 1st world problems.

This board is awesome. It can be a learning curve but by far the best board I have ever owned

I love the SQ mixer, but I can agree, there are several issues, which are mostly software related. When I mentioned them to A&H support, they haven't got reasonable answers just bullshit. They should handle these kind of problems, and they should have a really exceptional mixer. Some examples below: VERY CONFUSING - When switching off and on, the outputs show a strong transient signal (bang, click). There is no such phenomenon on the DX 168 stagebox and much better on Behringer X32 series. Even in the event of a power outage, this is quite harsh, especially in a professional environment. VERY CONFUSING - In principle, the PFL Trim setting would allow me to match the audio level of the listening and the master in the headphones, which works, but I think it's a big problem that the 12-segment LED display shows the trimmed signal, not the reality. However, we want to capture the real signal level on the display, the trimming here should only change the PFL volume in the headphones. VERY CONFUSING - The routing screens should clearly indicate whether the given channel is assigned to the given mixes. At the moment this is very unclear, if the fader is at zero it is not visible at all. Since I haven't found any other screen where the assign is nicely transparent, I think this is a pretty critical problem. It is important to be easy to see, for example it would be practical to indicate it by marking the outputs numbers with different colors. VERY CONFUSING - The length of the names of the channels and Scenes is very limited, so it is difficult to give a descriptive name, 25-30 years ago this was natural, but today it is not. VERY CONFUSING - When entering Scene names, the Cancel button is right next to shift, it's easy to accidentally press it, so the entered text is lost, which is very annoying. VERY CONFUSING - There is no cursor when entering names, if you want to rewrite a character at the beginning, you have to delete the whole thing and re-enter it CONFUSING - Channel strips can only be transferred from the mixer to the MixPad application, it does not work the other way. This reduces work efficiency. It would also be great if all six layers could be synchronized at the same time. CONFUSING - In the case of channel strips, the user can choose from only eight colors, which is quite a few, and choosing black makes the display virtually unreadable, which is not a good solution. If we add to this that the red color in its current form is also difficult to read and confusing, then only 6 colors remain, which is poor compared to the competitors. Why can't an RGB palette be used? The hardware does not know, or could it be solved by software? CONFUSING - 300 Scenes is a very large number, it would be nice if it could be grouped in some simple way into at least 4-6 groups, which could be easily filtered on the screen. For example, I have live and studio configurations, as well as templates, which I use to get started. CONFUSING - On the SQ-5 but even more so on the DX-168 stagebox, the size and surface of the ventilation slots is very large, which greatly increases the chance that dirt, liquid, foreign objects (pins, screws, paper clips, etc.) will enter. into the inside. In my opinion, this is a rather serious error possibility, which is unfortunate for such an expensive and professional device. IMPROVEMENT - In the case of softkeys (especially for the SQ-5), it would be good to create Banks, i.e. e.g. the 8 soft keys organized into banks A, B, C (1 key is bank select) I could use 3*7+1= 28 functions. Different colors could be used to indicate which Bank is active.

Completely agree with you! On the Si. Absolute trash. Though I wish other consoles had the color led strip that runs the length of the fader channel. SQ is one of the best consoles on the market from any manufacturer right now.

Find another boards that has the same I/O capabilities, And has pre’s that sound just as good as the SQs, and allows you to set up nearly your whole console from the physical surface without having to go into the GUI, all while coming in at the same price point as the SQ. I’ll wait. Justice for my boi! Thou dare speakth the name of SQ with such blasphemy. SQ is easily one of the best consoles out there right now. Most of the faults you mentioned, while mostly legitimate, aren’t SQ problems. They are A&H problems. Almost all their boards are that way. And yes, the GUI is very ‘English’ (as in the former country, not the language) which is another way of saying ‘backwards’. And yes, the way stereo channels interact with scene/show controls is really annoying. Especially when you realize that the said channel auto assigns itself to the main mix every time it’s toggled between mono and stereo (at least on Dlive). But you can program so much of the SQ console from the surface that you rarely need to go into the GUI. SQ is leaps and bounds over anything they’ve ever made (along with Avantis). I will never get tired of showing up to shows with an SQ and blowing everyone else at the festival out of the freaking water with how flexible it is with I/O, how fast it can adapt, and darn good it sounds (not that pre’s make a mix, they don’t. The engineer does. But good pre’s sure do help. Especially pre’s that like it hot! Like the SQs).

A lot of the things mentioned in this video are user error. You don’t know how to use the desk. Such as the PFL with automix. This is definitely the type of guy that says Denon DJ is better than Pioneer DJ.

I'm looking for a digital mixer for my studio because I wanna get out of mixing ITB just for the fun of it. I'm not mixing hits, it's just local bands for fun but i'd like to get the highest quality possible when returning back to my DAW for a final mix. I do most of the work in the box. Thoughts?? I realize the SSL Bix Six is of course the way the go, i'm looking for automation and flying faders.

Hating on a fairly decent console then going on to cry about lack of graphic eq. I don’t think I’ve used a graphic since 2008, things maybe different at your church

This guy is 100% a Reddit mod

il have it if you don't want it

Dude chill xD Is this a joke? This mixer is pure gold for most situations in live mixing and considered the price. Please, who ever reads this - Don´t listen to him!

Never seen anyone using one..And I'm sure theres better and cheaper alternatives! Had 2 analog allen & heath mixers, they're probably rust at this moment, always broken, some wire bands conecting everything inside it were always disconecting, randomly

Dude's talking about sq7 as if it is ls9.

Bad planning on your part, doesn't make the SQ junk.

I don't Understand why it took that long for you to find Dante 45 when Date is an IO card, so obviously you would chose the I.O ports on both tabs? 😂😂I mean, I use it 50 times a year and never spent 54 seconds finding that tab 😂.

Thank you so much for warning me about this piece of s***

Sounds like adapting isn’t his thing. The x32 has its fair share of disadvantages and the CL series is a price point that isn’t even fair to the conversation. If “trash” is what you have concluded i’d hesitate to listen further.

Now that I own an SQ5 by myself i see one valid point: The scribble strips are really too small and plain! Yamaha TF or even Behringer consoles show, how it's done.... The other point i see: It's really hard to get an overview over the I/O routing.... BUT: The 'double click view'-feature really helps (shows the I/O of every channel on the channel strip). No perfect solution but very helpful in most cases.

Respectfully, I use the SQ5 and some of the points that you're making are BS or maybe due to a faulty unit. The scenes save everything without the need of a USB drive and recall everything flawlessly, to mention one.

I wish I saw this vid 7 days ago. I fixed the pfl auto mixer issue in settings but it sucked to figure that out in show. I have to agree with all your points. It is very frustrating to mix on this console when you are used to Yamaha or Midas/Behringer.

Atleast 8 characters ? Are you fckin writing a novel?

Trying to get views by trashing a fine product. Someone needs attention.

I come from the Soundcraft Ui24R. (if you think you know about that specific model but never got into that specific model, shh. I'm not speaking for the Ui12 or Ui16, or the Si boards.) With Ui24R I can simultaneously multitrack record out to a DAW, including LR and AUX mixes; AND... USB drive record LR mix, and multitrack record for redundant multitrack. I hate the mute setup on the SQ. If a channel is mute grouped, I can't unmute that channel in my aux without unmuting it everywhere else. Also, I can't mute a channel in my aux without muting the channel everywhere else. IF I hit a channel mute button that is actively mute grouped, I doubly mute that channel. I have to unmute the group to activate my channel, then re-mute other channels I don't want. I hate the screen and knob setup interface for processing.. especially EQ. For context, I used the Ui24R with a Dell 27 inch touch monitor and several iPads. On the touch monitor you can see everything all the time. All meters, all send levels on all channels, LABEL ALL MUTE AND VIEW GROUPS... EXRREMELY fast and easy to create any kind of group... (view, DCA, sub, mute, etc.) A processor touch setting page becomes the whole page. I just wish somebody made a mixer that combines the preamps and sound quality of the SQ and the strengths and workflow of the UI24R. I wanted to cascade a second Ui24R unit for 20 additional inputs but the Ui24R still lacks in some areas that a major board that the SQ has.