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<blockquote data-quote="Marc Lopez" data-source="post: 120983" data-attributes="member: 7061">Re: Marc Lopez of Yamaha Commercial Audio Q&amp;AHi Kent,The preamp circuit in QL is identical to the preamps in CL and the Rio units.&nbsp; Our goal was design a less expensive console, but it needed to share the great sound quality. After all, the QL will be sharing the Rio units and the CL could be sharing the QL mic preamps, so they needed to match. We introduced several improvements with CL that were carried over to QL.&nbsp; We redesigned our digital clocking system for use with digital networks (the game changed a bit since digital networks prefer to be the clock master not only for overall clock distribution stability, but also for quicker recovery in case of failure). Our grounding schemes changed to improve noise floor.&nbsp; The feedback from CL users has been overwhelmingly positive.Yamaha&#039;s philosophy is to have a natural sounding analog input stage and give the engineer an opportunity to create color where he wants it. That&#039;s where the Premium Rack comes in. We&#039;ve have a technology called Virtual Circuitry Modeling (VCM) which recreates analog circuits in digital -starting from an analog circuit and carefully modeling each electrical component in digital to recreate all the non-linearities of a particular device. This technology impressed Rupert Neve so much that he allowed us to model his Portico 5033 EQ and 5043 Compressor. The Premium Rack also contains several famous classic units and an original Dynamic EQ processor. Thank you for noticing. Like other manufacturers, we have been guilty of announcing products too soon and delivering late. We are making a wholehearted attempt to buck this trend.&nbsp; I was very pleased to see QL consoles leaving our docks on their way to customers already.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marc Lopez, post: 120983, member: 7061"] Re: Marc Lopez of Yamaha Commercial Audio Q&A Hi Kent, The preamp circuit in QL is identical to the preamps in CL and the Rio units. Our goal was design a less expensive console, but it needed to share the great sound quality. After all, the QL will be sharing the Rio units and the CL could be sharing the QL mic preamps, so they needed to match. We introduced several improvements with CL that were carried over to QL. We redesigned our digital clocking system for use with digital networks (the game changed a bit since digital networks prefer to be the clock master not only for overall clock distribution stability, but also for quicker recovery in case of failure). Our grounding schemes changed to improve noise floor. The feedback from CL users has been overwhelmingly positive. Yamaha's philosophy is to have a natural sounding analog input stage and give the engineer an opportunity to create color where he wants it. That's where the Premium Rack comes in. We've have a technology called Virtual Circuitry Modeling (VCM) which recreates analog circuits in digital -starting from an analog circuit and carefully modeling each electrical component in digital to recreate all the non-linearities of a particular device. This technology impressed Rupert Neve so much that he allowed us to model his Portico 5033 EQ and 5043 Compressor. The Premium Rack also contains several famous classic units and an original Dynamic EQ processor. Thank you for noticing. Like other manufacturers, we have been guilty of announcing products too soon and delivering late. We are making a wholehearted attempt to buck this trend. I was very pleased to see QL consoles leaving our docks on their way to customers already. [/QUOTE]

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