yes, that is the main thing I look for in a tutorial. Most of the rest of the stuff is the same across all the boards, pretty much. The routing can be quite buried in somewhat random menus.
Thanks for your tutorial, my church just bought SQ5 and your video helps us a lot from turning from analog to digital mixer. Appreciated you can also introduce how we set for Aux .
We are installing ours this week. I have a couple days before our first meeting. I am super overwhelmed currently but very thankful for this video. We are also going from analog to the SQ...
It’s a big step but I’m sure you will get into it. Give yourself some grace for the first few weeks. There will be a learning curve and there will probably be mistakes the first few times. I always say a mistake is only a problem if you don’t learn from it. Take it one step at a time and I’m sure it will all come together
Currently headed to a resort as a breakout floater. Operating a Roland XS84H and this mixer. Thank you so much for the run down 😭 y’all wish me luck lol
I was having challenges with SQ5 and my friend sent me me this video . OmG this video saved me a lot coz I didn’t know to to balance the frequencies I was just turning nobes up and down not knowing the use
Hello, it would be interesting if you could make a video where you do EQ for the whole band, a multi-channel record, and explain to us step by step what you are doing and why you are doing it, it would seem like you are teaching us how to mix, which is exactly what you would do. It would be a great help to those of us who are just starting out. I think it would be an interesting video for a wide audience, I decided on SQ because it seems very simple to me. if you are able and have time, I would thank you in advance.
Well another thank you! i had a verry s6full first FOH on my tablet with the SQ5 by your very good instruction video, recieved a lot of compliments. it was my first time digital, and it was abslolytle great, all my fear for digital iis history now! Must say that i had an amazing set aswell S110/S119 adamson TX!1!!
I set this mixer up at our church and love it. Yes, best bag for the $$$. I would like to understand more about the trim in the preamp section and how to put a 31 band eq on aan insert. The pulpit mic is giving some feed back in several areas but the main eq was setup for the room and dont want to change the main. All the other mics sound great. Im not surr why i cant select any of the 31 band eq to the ex rack. Hopefully this all make sense. Btw, great info and will be using this video to help tech the other volunteers.
Thanks for the feedback. Glad you found it helpful. You can’t insert a graphic into a Chanel however if you need more bands you can feed your mic into a group and use the EQ on the group in addition to the chanel
I thought about using a group, but that makes it more confusing for my volunteers. I'm already using the grouping or ganging function on the pulpit mics. Our building came with a pulpit that has 2 mics on it. The system is mono, but the way the pulpit is, 1 mic will not work because it is off to the side. It is working now, but it would be nice to put an eq in the insert. I have done that on a yamaha board before, and it works out great.
Hey! I found this video very helpful as a guide to the mixer, it went into depth of everything from the start to the end, thank you. I have a question: I believe you use macOS on the computer you use in your videos; how did you get the Allen and Heath SQ Mixpad app on your mac?? I appreciate your help in advance, keep making great videos!
the video is good but the Live training banner is kind off hiding some parts when the camera is changed. it would have been better if it was smaller or at all removed and just add a small badge to the top right something like that.
really a fantastic video, thank you for so much information. I am very new to this for my church and trying to figure it out. Will likely have to watch this video a few times. Question: We have bell choir that sets up on the floor in front of pews and struggle with audience feedback noise on mics on the table. Is that when you would use a gate? Again, thanks!
No problem, glad you like it. I’m struggling to understand the question but a gate will help cut out low-level background noise so if that’s what you are trying to do then it could be a solution.
We have had the SQ7 for about 5 years now and have set it up with the basics. Gain, EQ, high pass etc.. It all sounds (okay) however, I would like to use other vocal effects like delay....etc.. Is there a tutorial the would help explain all of the 8 effects on this mixer?
Thank you for the video. We got a sq5 with a ar2412 at the front and using Pro-presenter 7. Could you do an advance routing video to set in-ear monitors?
How do you get up to 48 channels IN on an SQ5? Would that only be achievable with a stage box? Also, if you had a stage box would those inputs be added on top of the inputs on the back of the console?
@@jscjazz the SQ5 can take inputs from the console, a stage box, USB and an expansion card (I have Dante on mine) you can mix any of these sources and yes they do all just add together.
Thank you for the video! I'm designing a small-ish outdoor rig and planning on getting an SQ5 for it. One question I have in terms of the amount of input channels. I understand you can fold them into a stereo fader, but you can't essentially have 48 stereo channels. Do FX need returns as input channels too? That would further reduce the amount of available input channels for my setup
Yeah, you have 48 channels but this will reduce if you join some into stereo. Regarding FX, you have 4 FX bus that don’t need to come back into a channel so don’t count to you channels. However you can use an additional 4 FX units (giving you 8 in total) and these need to come back somewhere so that could be a channel or just insert it into a channel or group. Hope that helps
@@PluggedinAV That helps massively, thank you! Is it the same for the Talkback? It has its own mic input, does it also have its own bus? Or does that take up an input channel too?
Compressors don’t squash down, it lessens the amount of volume increase above the threshold, eg, with a 2:1 ratio when the sound increases 10dB over the threshold then the volume will only increase by 5dB on the output, nothing is being turned „down“, it is reducing what would be the level on the output, I find it a bit misleading to say it’s turning the sound down, this will just confuse noobs and amateurs, squashing is also a bit misleading as an image, yes you can have a squashing effect with very low threshold and a large makeup gain but this is seldom used in a live situation due to feedback danger….sorry but this annoys me somewhat while it’s misleading and therefore confusing for inexperienced people
Hi. Went to alchemea. At one time considered to be the best audio engineering college In The world. We used the same terminology as the variable you are considering is the gain reduction and to visualize that is to visualize “compression” or a squashing of the dynamic range of the output. So no problems here.
"nothing is being turned „down“, it is reducing what would be the level on the output, I find it a bit misleading to say it’s turning the sound down" You did the very thing that you criticised yourself. Gain is related to input channel (post transducer at its given impedance) tone/AMPLITUDE _of voltage_ therein, volume is related to output level, which still is _a particular type of gain itself._ Speaker amplifier circuit diagrams commonly contain SEVERAL gain stage levels, so on that alone one cannot say speaker amplifiers only deal with volume. Yes, I get that you weren't talking about speaker amplifiers, but the point here is that ALL of these things are inseparable when one is doing his/her engineering coursework, hence highly relevant. The important difference is where each occurs in the signal chain as the maths work out a bit differently. The IEEE stuff is needed to hash it out further, but semantically there is quite a bit of give-and-take. The way to address what it appears you were getting at-- and that's aside from the fact that your criticism is unfounded (inappropriate even) to begin with-- is to differentiate between voltage amplification (or reduction thereof) and current amplification. The applicability of Ohm's law throughout ALL of audio engineering confuses people, especially when inputs and outputs are reversible, notably as seen in the ease with which a speaker can be turned into a microphone et vice versa.
What are you doing here then? That's like going to an introductory college course and saying loudly, "OH I ALREADY KNOW THIS STUFF" when you stumbled into the wrong classroom.
i think this could be a really helpful video, but your setup, the video angles, the mess around you… I cannotgo on watching this. Maybe this is also an advise, not only complaining?!
I would love to see you do a video focusing on routing, I/O, aux sends, and matrix sends. How do we set up the basics of the signal path?
yes, that is the main thing I look for in a tutorial. Most of the rest of the stuff is the same across all the boards, pretty much. The routing can be quite buried in somewhat random menus.
Thanks for the training it's so helpful please keep doing some more training on this mixer please
Thanks, I have some plans for more videos on this in the new year
Simply the best In-Depth tutorial for this mixer out there right now!
Thanks, glad you found it helpful
Thanks for your tutorial, my church just bought SQ5 and your video helps us a lot from turning from analog to digital mixer. Appreciated you can also introduce how we set for Aux .
No problem. Enjoy your new console
We are installing ours this week. I have a couple days before our first meeting. I am super overwhelmed currently but very thankful for this video. We are also going from analog to the SQ...
It’s a big step but I’m sure you will get into it. Give yourself some grace for the first few weeks. There will be a learning curve and there will probably be mistakes the first few times. I always say a mistake is only a problem if you don’t learn from it. Take it one step at a time and I’m sure it will all come together
For sure you helped me a lot didn't know about digital mixer but now i have some knowledge
Brilliant video buddy! Clear and concise tuition and modest. Excellent
Thank you 🙏🏻
Currently headed to a resort as a breakout floater. Operating a Roland XS84H and this mixer. Thank you so much for the run down 😭 y’all wish me luck lol
Sounds fun, enjoy
Very Helpful Man... Salamat po.
I was having challenges with SQ5 and my friend sent me me this video . OmG this video saved me a lot coz I didn’t know to to balance the frequencies I was just turning nobes up and down not knowing the use
Your welcome. Glad it was helpful
Hello, it would be interesting if you could make a video where you do EQ for the whole band, a multi-channel record, and explain to us step by step what you are doing and why you are doing it, it would seem like you are teaching us how to mix, which is exactly what you would do. It would be a great help to those of us who are just starting out.
I think it would be an interesting video for a wide audience, I decided on SQ because it seems very simple to me.
if you are able and have time, I would thank you in advance.
I’ve had an idea to do something like this. Trying to work out how to do it but I will see what I can do
@@PluggedinAV Thanks m8! :)
Tx so much for explaining so clearly! really helpfull
Well another thank you! i had a verry s6full first FOH on my tablet with the SQ5 by your very good instruction video, recieved a lot of compliments. it was my first time digital, and it was abslolytle great, all my fear for digital iis history now! Must say that i had an amazing set aswell S110/S119 adamson TX!1!!
Great video! Perfect explanation
Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you
I set this mixer up at our church and love it. Yes, best bag for the $$$. I would like to understand more about the trim in the preamp section and how to put a 31 band eq on aan insert. The pulpit mic is giving some feed back in several areas but the main eq was setup for the room and dont want to change the main. All the other mics sound great. Im not surr why i cant select any of the 31 band eq to the ex rack. Hopefully this all make sense. Btw, great info and will be using this video to help tech the other volunteers.
Thanks for the feedback. Glad you found it helpful.
You can’t insert a graphic into a Chanel however if you need more bands you can feed your mic into a group and use the EQ on the group in addition to the chanel
I thought about using a group, but that makes it more confusing for my volunteers. I'm already using the grouping or ganging function on the pulpit mics. Our building came with a pulpit that has 2 mics on it. The system is mono, but the way the pulpit is, 1 mic will not work because it is off to the side. It is working now, but it would be nice to put an eq in the insert. I have done that on a yamaha board before, and it works out great.
Great work
🙏🏻
Hey!
I found this video very helpful as a guide to the mixer, it went into depth of everything from the start to the end, thank you.
I have a question: I believe you use macOS on the computer you use in your videos; how did you get the Allen and Heath SQ Mixpad app on your mac??
I appreciate your help in advance, keep making great videos!
No problem. Thanks for the comment. I downloaded it from the Allen & Heath website
@@PluggedinAV Thank you so much, I've looked there before but apparently never close enough - just found it. 😂
Have a fantastic day, God Bless!
I have a sq5 from the start but i dont need a lot of channels and maybe i go for the modern dm3
the video is good but the Live training banner is kind off hiding some parts when the camera is changed. it would have been better if it was smaller or at all removed and just add a small badge to the top right something like that.
Thanks. I do have loads more videos on this mixer so you could try one of those
really a fantastic video, thank you for so much information. I am very new to this for my church and trying to figure it out. Will likely have to watch this video a few times. Question: We have bell choir that sets up on the floor in front of pews and struggle with audience feedback noise on mics on the table. Is that when you would use a gate? Again, thanks!
No problem, glad you like it.
I’m struggling to understand the question but a gate will help cut out low-level background noise so if that’s what you are trying to do then it could be a solution.
Yes that is what we would want is to lessen background noise that is close to the source microphones. Thx
We have had the SQ7 for about 5 years now and have set it up with the basics. Gain, EQ, high pass etc.. It all sounds (okay) however, I would like to use other vocal effects like delay....etc.. Is there a tutorial the would help explain all of the 8 effects on this mixer?
Thank you for the video. We got a sq5 with a ar2412 at the front and using Pro-presenter 7. Could you do an advance routing video to set in-ear monitors?
Check out my most recent live stream. I’ve just done exactly that this week 👍🏻
How do you get up to 48 channels IN on an SQ5? Would that only be achievable with a stage box? Also, if you had a stage box would those inputs be added on top of the inputs on the back of the console?
@@jscjazz the SQ5 can take inputs from the console, a stage box, USB and an expansion card (I have Dante on mine) you can mix any of these sources and yes they do all just add together.
We have the SQ7 mixer in our church but we have problems with feedback audio. Can u make a tutorial to eliminate this problem? Thank you.
Feedback is a difficult thing to eliminate as you can go about it in many ways. Try moving your speakers further away from your stage
Thank you for the video! I'm designing a small-ish outdoor rig and planning on getting an SQ5 for it. One question I have in terms of the amount of input channels. I understand you can fold them into a stereo fader, but you can't essentially have 48 stereo channels. Do FX need returns as input channels too? That would further reduce the amount of available input channels for my setup
Yeah, you have 48 channels but this will reduce if you join some into stereo.
Regarding FX, you have 4 FX bus that don’t need to come back into a channel so don’t count to you channels. However you can use an additional 4 FX units (giving you 8 in total) and these need to come back somewhere so that could be a channel or just insert it into a channel or group. Hope that helps
@@PluggedinAV That helps massively, thank you! Is it the same for the Talkback? It has its own mic input, does it also have its own bus? Or does that take up an input channel too?
@@PickLost I think that has its own channel but I can’t remember TBH
@@PluggedinAV Okay no problem. thank you very much anyway!
You forgot to cover how you would set up the aux mixes
By the way....your instructions were fantastic. It's too bad you're 10,000 miles away.
Ha, thanks. Yes, my more recent videos will be going into how to use the effects on this mixer
Compressors don’t squash down, it lessens the amount of volume increase above the threshold, eg, with a 2:1 ratio when the sound increases 10dB over the threshold then the volume will only increase by 5dB on the output, nothing is being turned „down“, it is reducing what would be the level on the output, I find it a bit misleading to say it’s turning the sound down, this will just confuse noobs and amateurs, squashing is also a bit misleading as an image, yes you can have a squashing effect with very low threshold and a large makeup gain but this is seldom used in a live situation due to feedback danger….sorry but this annoys me somewhat while it’s misleading and therefore confusing for inexperienced people
Would you use a compressor to lessen a singer who is right on the mic and has a wide db range? So the peaks don't overload?
Hi. Went to alchemea. At one time considered to be the best audio engineering college In The world. We used the same terminology as the variable you are considering is the gain reduction and to visualize that is to visualize “compression” or a squashing of the dynamic range of the output. So no problems here.
Noobs....Nice. why is the sound community so annoying
"nothing is being turned „down“, it is reducing what would be the level on the output, I find it a bit misleading to say it’s turning the sound down"
You did the very thing that you criticised yourself. Gain is related to input channel (post transducer at its given impedance) tone/AMPLITUDE _of voltage_ therein, volume is related to output level, which still is _a particular type of gain itself._ Speaker amplifier circuit diagrams commonly contain SEVERAL gain stage levels, so on that alone one cannot say speaker amplifiers only deal with volume. Yes, I get that you weren't talking about speaker amplifiers, but the point here is that ALL of these things are inseparable when one is doing his/her engineering coursework, hence highly relevant.
The important difference is where each occurs in the signal chain as the maths work out a bit differently. The IEEE stuff is needed to hash it out further, but semantically there is quite a bit of give-and-take.
The way to address what it appears you were getting at-- and that's aside from the fact that your criticism is unfounded (inappropriate even) to begin with-- is to differentiate between voltage amplification (or reduction thereof) and current amplification. The applicability of Ohm's law throughout ALL of audio engineering confuses people, especially when inputs and outputs are reversible, notably as seen in the ease with which a speaker can be turned into a microphone et vice versa.
Much too basic for anyone who has done digital mixing before.
Sure, that’s why my most recent video goes into more depth for everyone else
But perfect for those who haven't,eh.
What are you doing here then?
That's like going to an introductory college course and saying loudly, "OH I ALREADY KNOW THIS STUFF" when you stumbled into the wrong classroom.
i think this could be a really helpful video, but your setup, the video angles, the mess around you… I cannotgo on watching this. Maybe this is also an advise, not only complaining?!
Sounds like just complaining
This is 100% complaining aswell a you problem.