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They also do the CQ16T with a touchscreen so you are not dependent on a tablet of phone.
Apps (iOS, Android, Windows) can be tried for free and the CQ4YOU app for IEM mixes is great.
Def upgrade to a XR18 & Soundcraft UI24r. Reliable WI-FI radio.. which is weakness of the Behringer/Soundcraft.
It also works as an interface over USB for studio use.
https://www.allen-heath.com/hardware/cq/
https://youtu.be/RNUaBvcAbyY?si=BnLEapuCsnsASKJc
I only sold it because I'm a complete moron that gets bored quickly.
Ebay mark7777_1
As an electronics engineer Behringer products make me nervous. Some of the stuff I've seen over the years have been quite shocking when repairing their products. I regularly use a Midas MR18 now and that makes me nervous, basically being an X18 with a pretty frock on.
Having said that the X32 has proved it's self to a certain extent so maybe the smaller ones are fine too. I would just go for the A&H though the £200 difference would be worth the peace of mind and higher resale price
He is on his third iteration of the XR mixers, he bought a 12 in the end to use for solo and duo work. (The band ended). Touch wood he has had no problems with the 12 after nearly a year.
Is there any reason why you can't mix and match active and passive speakers?
*EDIT - I think it's something like this*
The MR18 is OK, I like the compression and the delays are OK ... the reverb isn't great but usable in small doses. The way you have to mix stereo IEM's sucks ... you basically have to assign stuff to left ear and right ear and use the amount you send as a pan control rather than just assign to a stereo IEM bus and pan to taste like on a normal desk. Then again with only 6 aux sends it's not really designed for 4 or 5 stereo IEM mixes.
You can of course buy PMM's and use the Ethernet for it but 4 of those would cost more than the mixer.
I would always opt for A&H simply because in live music you have to pick your battles and I haven't had a failure of any A&H device I've used or installed in a venue. I've been gig'ing a QU16 since it was first released in the UK ... before the wireless ap was even available to use ..2014 I think and it's never gone wrong once despite being constantly loaded into a cold van in the winter and cooked at festivals in the summer.
But the CQ20B range is new and I have no direct experience of how reliable it will be, just basing my opinion on previous experience and the fact A&H have a very competent in house design team who put a lot of thought into products rather than just making things as cheap as possible and shifting as many as possible.
When it comes to analogue and digital, from a guitar perspective I have no issue with digital having used CaptorX, and Fractal/Kemper for years.....
However, I am interested in the analogue vs digital thing.....With this cheap Behringer Xenyx 1202 I have, am I right in saying there is no analogue to digital conversion going on? In that case......would you except the audio to be audibly (whose ear I know) better or worse with the XR18/MR18/CQ20B?
The onboard wifi is rubbish, and in a gig situation, you tend to lose control of the mixer from the iPad app, as the mixer fends off all the mobile phones in the venue that try to say hello to it. The wifi on mine stopped working altogether in the last couple of months.
I had a bit of a problem with the recording interface a few years ago. You should be able to set the point in the signal chain where you get the record feed for each channel, eg pre/post input gain, pre/post EQ etc. I was finding it didn't matter what I set it to, I always got a tiny signal out, which I suspect was pre input gain. Probably a bug that they may have fixed in a firmware update, but its been a while since I tried using it for recording.
Actually I also recall the last time I used it for recording, I was getting a lot of hiss coming through. That might have been the beer though.........
One a normal desk you just hit the IEM stereo bus, say the bass players IEM feed and adjust the level of any instrument and it's pan position in the same way you would if you were on the master bus / FOH page. Quick and easy.
The digital effects tends to be a little PCB that's on a parallel send and returned via the output DA of the little digital board. The same way the digital effects in a cheap amp like a Marshall AVT works. The whole signal doesn't get converted into digital the way it does in a guitar modeller.
@andyg_prs I don't think you would regret that decision, I'm thinking about one myself