Description
Qu-SB is an ultra-compact digital mixer which frees you to mix from anywhere in the venue and provides a smart, portable solution for performing bands and artists.
Qu-SB is portable enough to carry under one arm and comes loaded with our highly acclaimed suite of FX emulations and dynamics, making it a smart replacement for an old analogue mixer and a rack full of outboard FX.
- Our Best-Selling Digital Mixing Platform
- Inputs: 16 Mono / 1 Stereo
- Expandable to 32 mono / 3 stereo
- Mixes: 4 Mono / 4 Stereo / LR
- Expandable to 4 Mono / 7 Stereo / LR
- Matrix: 2 Stereo
- 32x32 USB Audio Interface
- Comprehensive Channel Processing and FX
- Range of Remote Expanders
- Suitable for:
- Live
- Studio
- Streaming
- A/V Install
- Corporate Audio
- Houses of Worship
REMOTE CONTROL APPS
Having massive processing power and advanced functionality is great, but it counts for nothing if you can’t access the controls you need in a heartbeat.
Qu-SB is designed to integrate seaamlessly with the fully-featured Qu-Pad iPad app, providing super-fast, easy access to all settings, including channel processing, meters and RTA views, FX racks, scene management, USB audio control, setup menus and much more.
Qu-Pad
With Qu-Pad you’re free to EQ and mix monitors on stage, roam around the venue whilst adjusting the PA, and mix the show from the heart of the audience. Qu-Pad connects over Wi-Fi and gives instant access to all live mixing parameters and settings.
Qu-You
Qu-You allows up to seven performers to control their own monitor mixes using any iOS or Android device, and frees up the engineer to focus on mixing for the audience.
Qu-Control
Qu-Control is a customisable iOS app providing a simple interface for non-technical users to control the essential parameters of Qu mixers when technical operators are not around.
Analogue to Qu
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Qu for Studio
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Qu for HoW
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UNRIVALLED SOUND QUALITY
CAPTURE EVERY DETAIL
Qu has been designed from the ground up to deliver professional sound quality, from input to output.
Qu-SB features sixteen AnalogiQ digitally controlled preamps with advanced zero-crossing detection and a padless 1dB-step gain stage.
The AnalogiQ preamp design has been refined to offer superb transparency, minimal distortion and an ultra-low noise floor, with a warm, musical sound that is missing from some digital consoles.
The analogue signal is captured by high-class, low latency 24bit analogue to digital converters, which are matched to 24bit digital to analogue converters to deliver the required high quality output.
WORLD CLASS PROCESSING & FX
Qu’s RackFX dynamics and FX algorithms are derived from those used in our pro touring series.
Some of the world’s most respected audio engineers have chosen to use RackFX on tour in preference to top-end plug-ins and external FX units.
Qu boasts 4 stereo RackFX engines, featuring lovingly crafted emulations of legendary classic reverbs, gated reverbs, delays, modulators, flangers and more. FX are returned to the mix on dedicated return channels, so you’re not tying up your mono and stereo input channels, and each Stereo FX Return has a dedicated 4 band PEQ.
RECORD. STREAM. MIX.
Qu’s built-in interface streams multitrack audio to your Mac or PC via a flexible patching system: all Input channels and the Main LR can be recorded at the same time, or you may choose to record something different such as FX returns or a pair of mixes.
The returns from the computer can be assigned to the Input channels. The interface is class-compliant on Mac OS X – and drivers are available for Windows systems. Either way, it will be recognized straightaway by any DAW supporting ASIOTM or Core Audio, including Logic, Cubase, Reaper, and Pro Tools.
Standard MIDI control is tunnelled over the USB and network connections, this can be mapped to the faders of your favourite DAW using the A&H MIDI Control app which provides easy setup and emulation of HUI or Mackie Control protocols on Mac OS X and Windows systems.
Want to livestream? Easy. Just send a stereo mix over USB and your streaming software will do the rest.
EVERYTHING I/O
Qu-SB is a self-contained mixer, so if you’ve already got the analogue cables you’re good to go.
But if you’re thinking of trading in the multicore for a Cat5 digital snake, the built-in dSNAKE™ port has you future-proofed, allowing connection to a remote AB168, AR2412 or AR84 Stagebox from our Everything I/O range of remote expanders.
Tech Specs
- Type: 18 x 14 digital mixer interface for iPad
- Channels: 16
- Inputs - Mic Preamps:1 6 x XLR
- Phantom Power: Yes
- Inputs - Line: 16 x 1/4", 2 x 1/4" (stereo paired)
- Outputs - Main: 2 x XLR (main out)
- Outputs - Other: 2 x 1/4" (stereo matrix out), 4 x XLR (mono mix out), 6 x XLR (3 stereo mix outs)
- Aux Sends: 11 monitor mixes (4 mono, 7 stereo), 4 x dedicated FX sends/returns
- Busses/Groups: 4 x stereo groups, 4 x DCA groups, 4 x mute groups
- Data I/O: 2 x Ethernet (Cat5 dSnake port, Network link)
- USB: 1 x Type B (audio interface), 1 x Type A (direct recording/playback)
- Computer Connectivity: USB (32 x 32)
- I/O Expansion Slots: Expansion via dSnake for additional inputs and networking
- Headphones: 1 x 1/4"
- EQ Bands: 4-band parametric, Graphic
- Effects: 4 x FX engines (reverbs, delays, double tracking, chorus, symphonic, phaser, flanger)
- Signal Processing: Compression, Gates, Filters
- Features: Spectrogram feedback elimination, RTA with peak band indication
- DAW Control: DAW MIDI control
- Software: Qu-Pad iPad app, iLive FX library, iPhone/Android personal monitor app
- Rackmountable: Yes (kit sold separately)
- Height: 6.4"
- Depth: 6.9"
- Width: 17.2"
- Weight: 9.9 lbs.
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