Issue link: http://digital.copcomm.com/i/1178376
26 F A L L 2 0 1 9 C A S Q U A R T E R L Y DETAILED DISPLAY This display is like nothing I've ever seen from a Lectrosonics receiver pre-Duet system. A full-color high-resolution screen which makes spotting noise floor, RF level, RF activity, audio level, battery life, receiver naming, and a whole bunch of other things really easy to see. There's plenty of brightness for outdoor viewing. I found on stage I set the display to about 50 percent to match the intensity of the other screens of various devices on the cart. Then outside I tend to bump it to 75 percent. What I love about this display is it looks like a native Wireless Designer (WD) readout. This is helpful because, as much as I love Wireless Designer, sometimes it's more ideal to not have to break out the laptop on certain production days that require more speed and mobility. of all of your receivers, a frequency scanning and coordinating app, and a liaison to updating firmware on various Lectrosonics receivers and transmitters. The DSQD was announced as a new product on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. What may have fallen through the cracks of the news cycle that day, was the fact that Lectrosonics dropped this new version of their Wireless Designer app that is now also native to Mac OS. For anyone who has used WD the past few years, you know how important this is! The previous version of the program was written for Windows and always required a lot of tweaking to get it to settle in properly on a Mac. Most of my colleagues using it were apprehensive about downloading the new app because it required a full uninstall and deletion of the previous Windows- adapted version. This, understandably, prompted pause, but since I was in Close-up of the DSQD's display approach is it uses all four receivers at once to do a scan. This seems to help get through the ultra-wideband spectrum quicker than scanning one receiver at a time. It will show a receiver 1 scan line in blue, 2 in green, 3 in purple, and 4 in red. Once scanned, I can immediately see the mountains of newly repacked DTV and they're visually easy to avoid. Group tuning allows you to set up four lists of four frequencies coordinated together. Each group (U, V, W, X) will have a list on the right of that menu screen, giving you more available coordinated frequencies that you can add and delete. You can then send those four frequencies to the IR port in the next screen and hit "SEND FREQ." WIRELESS DESIGNER For anyone not familiar with Wireless Designer, it is an application designed to interface via USB or ethernet connection with your Lectrosonics rack- mounted wireless receivers and transmitters such as a Venue 1, VR Field, Venue 2, Duet, and now the DSQD. It's a brilliantly organized and laid-out visual representation Wireless Designer 2.0.0 for Mac OS! Wireless Designer interfacing Venue 1's and DSQD hiatus mode and doing some "soft prep," I decided to go for it. I uninstalled the previous version and reminisced about how it required a download on a specific 2015 revision of the Firefox browser and required the download of a third-party app called Silverlight. Even though it was not ideal, I'm happy Lectro made all of those hoops to jump through in order to accommodate Mac OS users for an "Hotbox" bag test of the DSQD