You can also do this using the built-in USB recorder to a USB drive and don't need an external MacBook. The SQ with 1.5+ firmware supports multi-track recording of 16 channels at 96kHz and 32 channels at 48kHz.

Hi friso! It has happened to us as well! So very good advice indeed! Nice meeting you!

Hey Rober. Thank You. Setup for system tuning is a great idea! We added it to our topic pool.

Hey. So you make 2 input presents. 1 for live playing (which you can call live), and one for Virtual Soundcheck. Both of them you will find in the user tab. If you are doing a soundcheck with the band, you are doing it on the live preset. If you want to playback the recorded tracks, for a soundcheck, you'll have to use the Virtual soundcheck preset. Don't forget to save changes in patching.

Yes, it is possible! But you don't even have to use tie lines. You can patch it directly. Just make sure you've selected the SQ as your output device in your DAW and route it to an output. On your SQ select IO patch select Inputs on the left of the screen and USB on the top of the screen. Here you can now route your USB (signal coming from your DAW) to the input channel you want.

Hello, Same question here If you have the answer please share it. Thank you

Check that every step in your gain structure is ok. From input to speakers. Keep in mind that getting close to unity is a goal and usually that will be enough gain for everything else. Also remember that if the at unity it is to high, digital trim down and analog gain up so you don’t lose that inputs overall volume going to your tie lines.

Hey. the moment you can patch from protools to the SQ through the USB-B (Tielines)on the SQ, you can use outboard which is connected to the SQ. Be aware that all the female XLR connectors on a SQ console have preamps, and therefor have a preamp gain. Be sure to check settings before tuning a mix. Just be aware of the extra DA/AD conversion and therefor the extra time it takes.

Hi anton, this is indeed a video explaining how you can multitrack a live performance. But more importantly, we use that multitrack recording to do a “virtual soundcheck”. You show up at a venue, as a dedicated sound engineer, you always show up first before the band. After tuning your pa system, you can use that live recording to do a “virtual soundcheck”: you route all of your multitracked inputs back into the console and listen/play around/adjust your mix to the new venue. Or, if you’re not satisfied with parts of your mix, you can practise/adjust your mix at home untill you are satisfied. Or, If you’re doing IEM from foh and a musician was not happy with his mix, you can have him standing next to you and adjust his IEM mix to his needs. It is something that our MONO team does almost every show. It can be also real handy if there was a problem (crack/cut/buzz) on a channel during the show to pinpoint where the problem was situated. Recording you LR mix in tge multitrack recording is a usefull hint also, that way you can send show to substitute musician to practise/listen to it or the light or video guy programming lights on it. But beware, always let musicians know that a LR mix recording straight off the desk is not always a good representation of your mix! For example is guitar player is really loud on stage or the snare is acoustically really loud in a small venue, it might be vert silent in your mix or not there at all. And to answer your last question, no this will not messup your sound, the recording is just a tieline patch patching your inputs to another device (your DAW). But be sure you know how to tieline patch it correctly. Hope that answers your questions? Best, mono soundteam!

Thanks John! Appreciate it! You can also record in 48k. Press the setup button, on the left select the Audio menu and select the USB tab on top. Here you can choose the sample rate of the usb (96 or 48).

Thank you so much Worzle! The setup on the SQ stays the same for all DAW, but of course the way you route things is different in every DAW. It's been a long time since we've used Cubase, but if we remember correctly you have to do the following: - Go to Studio / Studio Setup / VST Audio System and select the SQ as your ASIO Driver - Then go to Studio / Audio Connections and make the necessary Input & Output busses in the according tabs. Now you can assign the SQ as input/output device for those busses and select the correct input/output channel.

Yes it can, if you do the routing correctly. Your USB input patch is independent from your USB output patch. But please be aware for loopbacks! You can create one very easily in this scenario.

@@MONOSoundLab Thanks buddy, if i had a place nearby i would ofc go there and play with the desk it self but sadly i do not. Aah loopbacks are new to me but i know what you mean.

Not much experience with sq-drive unfortunately… format the usb stick would be my first guess

@@MONOSoundLab thank you very much. At least the problem yes was USB stick. It's something about writing speed of a stick. Not only reading speed. It works now just the way I copied you

I presume the camera setting of the darks on the gopro do that. Background of touchscreen is indeed blue but of course you can adjust brightness. Go to -setup-surface- surface prefs there you find all you need for adjusting.

Hi mike, have you tried the old “restart computer” trick? Sometimes reaper or other daw needs a restart to see the sq? Maybe restart both console and computer?

If not, try swapping the usb cable!

@@MONOSoundLab got it. Thanks!

Consider the tieline patch really as old school tielines (analog) where you would take a signal and patch it to somewhere else. So making a tieline is sending a signal to another place. For example: you fysically patched your vocal in local 1 of your sq with an xlr. Next you can send that signal to for example your waves card in the desk or to another device connected to your desk that will receive the signal of your mic then. If you connect two sq’s together for example if you have an sq link card, you can tieline patch all of your inputs through to the other desk.

Hey. So the preset in the library is only for inputs. And the reason why we make a preset is to save time. But it is not necessary to make a preset. As soon as you patch in the I/O menu on the SQ, the patch is made. The presets just saves us time so we don't have to do the patching everytime we want to change between live en virtual.

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