{"video_id":"fp_758NingIRB","title":"Q-Sys Fixes Our Badminton Centre Audio Install","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2025-11-11T17:18:00.049Z","duration_s":831,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":4.24,"text":"The audio system in our badminton club slash gaming center was built with blood,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.24,"end_s":8.48,"text":"sweat and tears. Well hopefully not blood. Oh god so much blood.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.44,"end_s":13.52,"text":"He's not wrong though and the worst part is all the blood was for absolutely nothing!","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.16,"end_s":20.24,"text":"What? You know this! See it turns out that all of our wall mounted speakers are defective","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.24,"end_s":25.6,"text":"and after waiting four months for replacement hey Dan what's that? 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david for coming out and getting","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":825.52,"end_s":830.96,"text":"this all set up q-sis has some amazing products and services we're gonna have them linked down below","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"The audio system in our badminton club slash gaming center was built with blood, sweat and tears. Well hopefully not blood. Oh god so much blood. He's not wrong though and the worst part is all the blood was for absolutely nothing! What? You know this! See it turns out that all of our wall mounted speakers are defective and after waiting four months for replacement hey Dan what's that? Our asset tag. The ones that were on the exact speakers that were sent back to the vendor unrepaird. Adding insult to injury when Q-SYS the manufacturer that's behind the brain of our sound system saw our last video they were compelled to get on a plane and come all the way out here to say paging Linus good first attempt but I think we can do better together thank you legitimately thank In fairness to us this is a very challenging environment see in a big box like this the sound waves are just begging to bounce around and if you need to issue important announcements people need to be able to understand them and understanding is only going to get harder when we fill this place up with 250 plus gamers for all nighter land sessions But good news everyone because thanks to the power of Dave we've done it this bad boy right here handles everything from paging to background to even being able to handle audio for our stage Oh and let's get a message from our sponsor while a PA system might not seem that complex or exciting it's worth considering that this facility is not just one big box but rather it is several big boxes we have two sets of quartz a lounge a pro shop a cafeteria a gym and then two separate washrooms all of which need to be able to be individually addressed or addressed as groups and in a manner that is not confusing for our front desk staff we want anyone who works here to be able to confidently use this system so with over 30 speakers and seven zones not to mention two businesses that literally only I would ever think to put in the same building keeping things simple has a lot of backend complexity this is the solution that Dan cooked up using Q-SYS designer it's well kind of terrifying that is where Dave from Q-SYS comes in you know it's not bad considering yourself Todd I'm impressed you got something functional but we could do better yeah thanks to Q-SYS training I was able to kind of get acquainted with the system and learn everything that I needed to to get this up immediately and we have been using it which is like a testament to Dan this is a real interface it has buttons and everything but let's look at what decades of experience could do to refine it up in our top corners where we have all of our inputs come into the system and we decide to monitor everything as it's coming in with live audio meter so we can see what's going on right how much signal we got in where we want to distribute it and that's the same as I have here right right this is your this is your Dante input it totally looks the same well it was a yellow block shut up it actually copied your block to start over see I did a good he got me started yeah this here is where any of the Dante audio streams come into the system however rather than do spaghetti wiring all throughout we would just assign them with tagged names that can go anywhere we need to within the sound system and they're all color coded so we can follow along cool okay so that means that my usb-c in one is right here yeah exactly super cool what are we looking at in the purple zone down in our purple zone here this is where we're doing our music processing where we can switch between having music be more background or being more in your face death by music got it we've created two separate streams of background music if we have a LAN event on one side and badminton on the other side we can have two different background paths that will go serve the necessary areas got it oh hey look I can read labels so the next one is microphones exactly these are microphones that the staff can take out onto the court and they're able to just make an announcement this comes up a lot especially during our competitive ladder events and tournaments when things are a fair bit more busy than they are right now and the coolest part is you're not going to get any feedback because we've processed the audio directly for each microphone including a dynamic notch feedback controller at the end of the chain that will constantly monitor for standing wave patterns and make sure that we curve them out of the audio spectrum that is so cool and so theoretically if people like saw your layout here could they like do something like this absolutely so can you click on a notch feedback controller like what did you configure in the oh god okay so as long as they're also a wizard and they see your layout here then they could do all of this this actually is going to monitor for itself it has dynamic filters that will apply to solve a problem and then after 30 seconds it will go away because that microphone is going to move around the court and be in a different spot every time first in first out it's a cue not that I don't believe him but here let's give it a shot wow that's actually pretty cool I am getting no feedback whatsoever no matter where I move in the court and hey harry how's it sound nice what if I wasn't yelling can you can you still hear me okay if I'm just talking into the mic heck yeah oh it doesn't blow out people's ears either you've probably got some cool gating stuff on it and stuff we got some stuff he's got all this stuff guys like gate keep girl boss I'm so psyched because like whenever I have to take attendance and stuff for ladder night I'm always like yelling at everybody this is going to be great now I can yell at people with amplification check this out lady this is our new interface is it actually as simple as it looks I don't know let's see hello that's awesome yeah and you can do background music and stuff too oh that's good can you connect to your phone to play the background music can connect to basically anything on the face of the earth oh wow but let's show let's let's talk about the music now Dan's implementation for background music was pretty cool it had what he calls automatic ducking so when you start talking you don't have to compete with the background music it'll it'll come down can you do that oh we did that and we did more sorry Dan Dan is using one of those super cool little bluetooth Dante adapters Dante is an incredible ecosystem man you can plug freaking anything into it and out of it so whether it's like bluetooth or xlr in or a three and a half millimeter jack you just need one of these little PoE adapters so he's playing bluetooth audio off of his phone over at the reception and then we're going to try out the ducking when I try to and dude this is going to be great for lans because we've got the ability to out of moments notice you like shut up the tournaments now everybody pay attention and it's freaking loud even when in front of the speaker we get no feedback is that awesome or what another cool thing is when we're in background music mode we're not just adjusting the volume of the music right we're actually processing it differently and pulling out some of the frequencies from the music which is where our human conversation tends to live right so it's easier to just talk over it and tune it out so you can actually bring more music into the area without making people have to scream to understand each other it's the same way you hear different instruments in the orchestra or how you hear different parts of a musical when they're singing in harmony with each other you can have more things going on and still understand them but wait there's more I assume I don't actually know that for sure is there more there's always more now is the part where we talk about zone management and we actually get this thing hooked up because as I was walking over here one of the smash champs staff came up to me and was like hey so is it working we haven't been able to use the mic all day we really need it which shows you again Dan shout out Dan how important it was the stuff that Dan did and not worthless one of the other neat things is we just had this plugged in the court now it's plugged in here it'll reassign itself you can plug it in anywhere oh dude that is so cool isn't that neat yes because all of these have internal IDs and so any port anywhere including on whale land we can put anything in this building and we could put a speaker we could put a microphone we could put the bluetooth adapter do we have more than one of those as many as you want would they would they like sync the settings or no they would just address whoever they're set to address oh how much he gets it uh oh damn I knew there was a catch it starts with four digits but they're metal and they're PoE dude that's so cool I kind of teased this before but here's the zones 101 and 102 means the two different sides of the badminton hall then we've got the pro shop concession washrooms lounge and fitness area we've also got some super convenient grouping buttons that make it really quick to page the entire facility or just the common areas and not the courts for instance system setup is only really needed when we're running LAN events and we want to switch out of all badminton mode and finally scheduling announcements is going to be really nice for the staff here because as it is now they have to have notifications on their phones for okay it's five minutes till the end of the session hey everyone it's five minutes till the end of session blah blah blah they have to do that manually every time well now we can just have little pre-recorded messages that we can play and say hey get off it's five minutes from the end since we're getting set up can you kill the chime and we'll just have it go instantly we can do that okay should replace it with like a klaxon no no no discord notifications oh what if it's like the iphone okay no no and no but in all seriousness now that this is set up is there any reason that someone like Dan with just a little bit of experience couldn't go in and just make little changes like that it's super easy to just drop in an audio file of whatever chime you want to have select that from absolutely my understanding is you could build an interface specifically for that say you know they're doing their hourly reminders we could just change those out as a simplified version for the staff we can build those in as an automated macro command and we can trigger those off of time-based events easily every networking people get excited about networking is actually pretty cool what if it would if it said hey little thing let me let you get up oh la come on i have a lesson my dad's ever now please move to the other court yeah networking's fun yeah while we were waiting i wanted to check out this cool interface thing and Dan was explaining it to me and then he broke it classic Dan okay yeah so what is this these are the little unify like vision portly things that allow you to just PoE HDMI out and then you can send a security camera feed and build your own little like uh views and then you can have them rotate through like you can see some of them doing that looks what's it called these are the unified viewports now one of the things i thought was really cool was that you've got this themed for our colors so it doesn't look like that in there no if i just copy the controls over onto the user interface yeah this is what they look like to start it's all just kind of gray and white and very small font and stuff however with q-sis we can actually use css just like web designers would to create a style sheet for the entire user interface so i built you a little css and if we go when we were to apply it to our to our touch panel over here we add our line is smash jams haza theoretically everything is live theoretically yes check check in the pro shop oh wow that is uh okay i asked him to juice it a little bit he did do that hey roge if you guys want a deeper look at the hardware side of all the networking that this is running on then i recommend checking out this video here in a nutshell it's pretty much all ubiquity which when we installed it did not have proper support for daunte and q-sis but now thanks to the power of ubiquity being genuinely kind of bros it all works and it's out of beta now okay pro shop and concession are now working and they sound good they sound good okay should we be testing the courts with everybody out there ah screw it paging all smash jams patrons we have updated our audio system to be louder and easier to understand that is all terrific that's actually way more attention than they usually pay to the announcements people get pretty focused on their games but on the subject of being focused on your gaming how's it going to handle the lan event thanks again to q-sis for helping us get the audio set up for this event now i guess the only thing that remains is this segue you guys are great if you guys enjoyed this video maybe go check out the previous one where we showed all of the physical aspects of the networking both for the badminton club and for our lands shout out Dan and the info team for getting all of the bones laid for all of this and shout out david for coming out and getting this all set up q-sis has some amazing products and services we're gonna have them linked down below"}