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Old 28th September 2012   #12
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You can learn QLab basics in about ten minutes. At its simplest, just drag and drop your sounds into the cue list. You'll save yourself a lot of heartache if you take a tiny amount of time to check it out. I've taught complete amateurs how to use it in half an hour and as you're an experienced PT user, it should be a doddle.

Still confused about which walls the speakers are on, though. As far as the snake is concerned, the previous poster is right; just feed a signal into the desk and connect each of the snake connectors to a live output of the desk. That should show you what's connected and what isn't. Is there some form of speaker management system somewhere in this hall? Is there a rack with amplifiers to drive these six main speakers, or are they self-powered? if so, you can just connect up the first pair and then daisy-chain out from one to the other: (balanced line interconnects, of course, and you may find that one set has a band-passed sub output.) If there's rack, then the same thing applies; daisy-chain if you can, so that each speaker has its own amp channel control. The more info you supply, the more we can help.

Best of luck,

John
Oh I have no issue learning it as I told them I could but they just don't want to risk the chance that I don't learn it you know..

The four small speakers on the walls are passive and have 2 seperate amps. The main monitors (the big guys) are active and daisy chained. We have some new equipment possibly coming in and a much bigger mixer so I don't want to set up anything yet. Of course I'll test it out though.
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