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Welcome to the third issue of our new
e-mail newsletter, designed to help you get the maximum benefits from using
Sabine products. Please feel free to send an e-mail to Sabine and
subscribe, make a suggestion, or ask for a specific topic to be covered.
News
John Roden Puts 8 Channels of Power-Q into Paul McCartney
Monitor Mix
John Roden (remember
him from our last edition?) famous monitor mixer to the
stars (AC/DC, Ozzy, Black Sabbath) has chosen 8 channels of
the Sabine Power-Q for monitor processing on the new McCartney
tour. "I am intending to use them as an insert on the piano
and vocal channels," comments Roden. "Paul will not
let us midi up his piano and it has always been a bit of a monitor
problem," he continues.
Roden intends to have 4 channels of Power-Q on the piano and 2 channels on the
vocals. Questioned about the remaining two channels, Roden humourously sites
the incredible versatility of the Power-Q will allow him to allocate one
channel for "making triple shot lattes, with semi skimmed milk; and the
other channel [for] making top shelf margaritas, no salt, on the rocks, for the
after show beverage."
All kidding aside, the Power-Q™ Digital
Workstation combines the functions of nine separate products into one
easy-to-use 2U package. The 24-bit, two-channel Power-Q contains a Parametric
EQ (up to 12 band per channel, with low and high pass filters), 31-band Graphic
EQ with adjustable filter widths, full-featured Real-Time Analyzer,
Compressor/Limiter, Delay, Noise Gate and 24 patented FBX Feedback
Exterminator® filters (12 per channel). The Power-Q allows all functions to
operate concurrently.
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“ I am confident that the Power-Q
will once again make me look good.”
— John Roden, monitor mixer for the
upcoming Paul McCartney tour |
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Sabine Power-Q Digital
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Roden and the Power-Q are old friends, having used
it as a vocal insert when mixing for AC\DC, Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne.
"The Power-Q is quiet and allows you to find the exact [feedback]
frequency, narrow it down and not even notice the filter is in your
system," Roden attests, "but you can notice the extra dB of gain it
gives you."
Asked about the upcoming McCartney tour, Roden
states, "I am confident that the Sabine Power-Q will once again make me
look good."
- Check out Sabine's
Power-Q
online
- Visit John Roden online
Power
Users
Steve Yates Gets Satisfaction
Wolf Industrial Network's Steve Yates does it all,
and gets great results from Sabine. "I take the customer from the initial
sale, through systems engineering, programming, installation coordination,
customer training and technical support," states Yates. "And when I'm
with the customer, I know that Sabine quality and customer service are right
there with me."
Wolf installs audiovisual systems and began using Sabine equipment in 2001.
"The first time I used a Sabine product was in the corporate training
rooms of a very well known financial services organization," recalls
Yates. The rooms were approximately 40 feet by 70 feet, filled with desks and
computer monitors, and were set up to allow instructors and guest speakers good
wireless mobility while addressing the classes. "Keeping the quality of
the sound good — and of course, feedback free — were very important
considerations in the sound system design of this room," states
Yates.
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"Support with Sabine is fantastic. At Sabine you can get someone
to answer your questions and really listen to what you have to
say."
— Steve Yates |
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"Originally, I was looking for two separate
pieces: an EQ and a feedback controller," he remembers. "Sabine's
Sales and Technical Support team guided me through the process of deciding
which unit best fit my purposes — which ended up being the Graphi-Q
2-channel remote-control-only GRQ-3102S." Yates states that "the
price was right and the functions fantastic — I absolutely fell in love
with the Graphi-Q!"
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Q-Tips
Stereo EQ with the Graphi-Q
Situation: Using one channel of his
Graphi-Q, Johnny Goldenears sets up just the right EQ curve and compression for
the left side of his production sound system. Now he wants to apply those
settings to the other channel, and he wants to do it quickly. “Can’t
I just copy them?,” says our erstwhile mixer. “And then I would like
the unit to act like a stereo EQ.” Can Johnny do it?
Solution: Yes, indeed he can.
Johnny chose the Graphi-Q because it is a digital EQ with analog controls, but
he still wants the benefit of repeatability that a digital product can provide.
With the Graphi-Q you can copy settings from one channel to another in two
ways.
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| Method 1 — From the front panel: Turning the
two-channel GRQ-3102 into a stereo EQ is simple. Pull all the faders on the
A channel down to their lowest positionand now the B channel is the master
for both channels. All EQ adjustments made in the B channel are applied to the
A channel, too. In addition, the compressor, high & low cut filters, and
output gain of both channels are linked. The delay, bypass, and FBX Feedback
Exterminator controls remain channel specific. |
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| Method 2 — With GRQ Remote Control
Software:The concept is the same when using the software, but here
you have more choices and more flexibility. In this case use the main screen
to edit the EQ settings of one channel in the Graphi-Q. Then choose Link table
from the Options Menu and set a link between the two channels. Setting the
link properly will copy the settings from one channel to another. |
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Links are created by typing in two characters into
the appropriate function field of the selected Graphi-Q (you can be controlling
up to 8 units). The first character is the type of link, A for Absolute and R
for Relational. The second number names the link and allows you to distinguish
it from other links. If we want to copy the settings from one channel to
another, we use the Absolute link. The first channel you set to an Absolute
link becomes the master, and is shown in red. In this case all values for that
function are exactly the same for all linked channels, and they match that
master channel. If we choose Relational, any changes made after linking are
made proportionately to both channels, maintaining independent values for each
function (no master).
In the example shown, Johnny entered A1 in both channels of
his GRQ-3102 and got his wish. The Link table is a very potent
tool. You can link the graphic EQ, parametric EQ, compressor/limiter,
delay, output level, and global parameters of up to 16 channels
of Graphi-Qs. We’ll take a look at global parameters in
a future SABINE-zine. |
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