Anyone using allen and heath qu series mixers? How are the drivers?

[jmh]

I'm considering the qu-16 or 24. is anyone using these and finding they play well...

[Richard Rupert]

I'm considering the qu-16 or 24. is anyone using these and finding they play well...

Not the answer you're looking for, but if you haven't already compared this mixer with the PreSonus Studio Live Series III, I'd recommend you do. I'm certainly not dismissing the A&H as a bad mixer; I'm just suggesting an alternative with which I am familiar. The PreSonus drivers are rock solid.

[jmh]

Not the answer you're looking for, but if you haven't already compared this mixer with the PreSonus Studio Live Series III, I'd recommend you do. I'm certainly not dismissing the A&H as a bad mixer; I'm just suggesting an alternative with which I am familiar. The PreSonus drivers are rock solid.

We have a couple of Allen and Heath SQ-7s at the school district I work at and I have explored that extensively - but haven't used it as an interface. I tried to steer them toward the presonus series III instead of the SQ7 - but it was not my decision.

I've been using a Behringer X18 as my interface. (I didn't have quite enough inputs and outputs on my minimalist analog AR16USB for the kind of recording I've been doing lately) I'm squeaking by on inputs with the X18 and I have been using the 6 aux busses for headphone mixes it all works surprisingly well and sounds great for a really cheap mixer - but I'm really missing a surface which I can navigate much better. The busses are cool, I have a couple of raspberry pis with old monitors people were throwing out so people can manage their own headphone mix - not bad for $35. Consideration of the Allen & Heath is just because of familiarity - and also there are a lot of outputs which could make the headphone mixes stereo which I like for tracking.

Maybe just dreaming - you always want to step it up.

[Microstudio]

I have a QU-16 it is really an awesome mixer.
Divers work great in Win 10 or MacOS

[jmh]

I have a QU-16 it is really an awesome mixer.
Divers work great in Win 10 or MacOS

Micro,
and you being you, it goes without saying that it works fine with studio.

[Microstudio]

Micro,
and you being you, it goes without saying that it works fine with studio.

Yep.

[Richard Rupert]

We have a couple of Allen and Heath SQ-7s at the school district I work at and I have explored that extensively - but haven't used it as an interface. I tried to steer them toward the presonus series III instead of the SQ7 - but it was not my decision.

I've been using a Behringer X18 as my interface. (I didn't have quite enough inputs and outputs on my minimalist analog AR16USB for the kind of recording I've been doing lately) I'm squeaking by on inputs with the X18 and I have been using the 6 aux busses for headphone mixes it all works surprisingly well and sounds great for a really cheap mixer - but I'm really missing a surface which I can navigate much better. The busses are cool, I have a couple of raspberry pis with old monitors people were throwing out so people can manage their own headphone mix - not bad for $35. Consideration of the Allen & Heath is just because of familiarity - and also there are a lot of outputs which could make the headphone mixes stereo which I like for tracking.

Maybe just dreaming - you always want to step it up.

I also have an X-18, which is okay (I use it just for live performance now). But the Studio Live is a whole different beast. Even the "smaller one" (24 faders under hand, but paging gives you access to another 8) has 32 inputs and 8 stereo or 16 mono headphone mixes. I have my 32 fader mixer set up to to run 6 separate stereo headphone mixes. It also will run in Mackie emulation mode as a controller for SAW. Pretty awesome machine.