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Well, not exactly what I was hoping to fix for everyone when I made the video…but if it at least helped you know what to disconnect and clean then I’ll call that a win! Glad you’re up and running. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Awesome! I’m thrilled it solved your issues. Thanks for watching and happy playing Big Band Of Boom!!

Hi, If I understand your question correctly. You want to send an effect to your bus that is different from what is going to your main bus. You can watch this video, and read my explanation below. HOW TO SEND YOUR FX TO YOUR MONITOR MIXES - BEHRINGER XR th-cam.com/video/vqNU_GBEAiM/w-d-xo.html Choose a different effect slot. Send your instrument or microphone to that effect and make the adjustments you want. Then choose your aux that you want, and send the fx return fader to that bus. You will need to send that effect to your bus Pre-fader. To avoid sending it to your main as well. I hope that helps minutes not clear, please let me know. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

@@QuickEZ exactly. I’ve tried to experiment with having a dry signal on the LR (main out) and wet signal in my IEMs. independently

Well that video I linked will show you exactly how to do that. Let me know if you have any trouble and I’ll do my best to help you.

@@QuickEZ thanks a lot 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Lol. Thanks Ken!

Thank you Rico! And thanks for watching. Happy mixing!

Hi warhamster, I feel that pain!! When I got my Behringer XR mixer I hummed and hawed about whether to get the 16 or the 18. I got the 16 and kicked myself repeatedly for not choosing the 18. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Hi Nicolas, The short answer is “no”. The long answer; If you happen to have an empty channel that you are not using. Duplicate the input for the channel you specifically want to EQ differently, and make whatever EQ changes you want. Then, send that new duplicate channel to your Aux and not to the master. This way you now have two copies of the same input channel with completely different equalization, going to your two different locations. For example: Main vocal, let’s pretend you have it plugged into input 1. Let’s pretend that input 20 has nothing plugged in. Edit the input patching of channel 20 and set it to input 1. You now have a duplicate of your main vocal. EQ channel 20 differently from channel 1, and send it pre-fader to your aux. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Thanks for the answer,it helps!!

You’re welcome!

Thanks for sharing, It's good to have some additional voices here sharing a positive experience. I didn't talk about external wifi in this video, which I probably should have at least touched on, but I've talked aobut it so much in other videos it just didnt' occur to me while I was rambling on in this one. I NEVER use the internal wifi for show/event operation, and thats not isolated to this rack mixer...thats my stand on any rack mixer with built-in wifi. The event in this video, I only used the internal wifi to do a quick walk-test in the venue before anyone ever entered the building, and thats 5g, not the 2.4 connection. Once the event starts, I can't be seen on the floor anyway, so wireless communication just isn't required. If it was, I would have an external system on hand, no exception. Not an "old dog" problem at all. Yesterday while I was going my walk test, I kept nudging faders with my thumb. That is a downside of tablet operation. If you don't have a case that gives you a proper handle, it's incredibly easy to make inadvertent adjustments or, like you, hit the back button. The lack of "actually balanced" XLR outs is a shame. When companies make choices like this, I can only assume it's a cost saving measure, but that makes no sense to me. Especially when you compare the cost of this particular device to similar mixers. How much cost saving could you actually have with this choice. I just shake my head and proclaim "capitalism..." Thanks for watching!

@@QuickEZ thanks for the repply. Not sure we can blame the issue solely on capitalism, Behringer is as capitalistic as they can be who sells mass produced products by tonnes and all their desks, analogue or digital have fully balanced output drivers driving both pins 2 and 3.😎 Love your user aimed videos, came across your channel in search for info on doing in-ear monitoring which I'm just starting to get into with a covers band im involved with. Keep up the good work.👍🖖

Rightly or wrongly, it’s my go to whenever something doesn’t make financial or logical sense. It’s more for comic relief than anything else. Thank you! I really enjoy helping people. It’s why I started the channel in the first place. So it’s nice to know that folks get something out of it.

I would rebut saying that the Innovason SY80 with a poorly executed software upgrade was the most unreliable mixer ever. But thats just my personal experience from 2007 :) . However, I understand your dismay with the UI24 and I'm happy to have you share your experiences here so others are aware of any potential issues. Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the heads up. I've been completely consumed working live gigs all week and it's now a long-weekend here so I'm removing myself from the world for a few days. As soon as I'm back to business I'll have a jump into the new release and see whats what. Thanks for watching!

I have a friend that has gone through two of them also. We tried redoing the heat sink and adding a ton of fans, but no go. He dumped them and picked an Allen and Heath also. He is happy with that.

Happy to have your two cents here, so that people can see there are folks having good and bad experiences. All I can say is that I have the exact opposite experience to you. My event in this video was mission critical performance for 4 straight days and I had no functionality or performance issues and that has been my experience with ever use of this mixer since purchase. Rest assured, If I ever experience anything that stops me from meeting expectations with these mixers, I will have a video about it. If a client is paying for seamless operation, and you can't provide it with this gear, then absolutely you should be moving towards something else. Allen & Heath do make great gear. Do you have a specific console you've had excellent experiences with? I spent years utilizing the iLive series as monitor consoles. They were workhorses! Truthfully, I didn't love the workflow, but they functioned well, sounded great, and kept on going in punishing outdoor conditions. I also had my hands on the CQ-18 right when they were released. Sadly I didn't have the time to make a video about them at the time and I'm kicking myself for that now. They had a lot of "Great" packed into a really small footprint. Thanks for watching!

@@QuickEZ SQ-5 is the tool of choice currently. About to learn some dLive!

DLive has great workflow. I just got my hands on the sq5 for the first time 2 weeks ago. Workflow seems great. I’ve yet to have the time to do anything functional with it.

Really happy you found my video. I was the same…losing my sanity… until I figured this out. Had to share to keep others out of the mad-house. Thanks for watching!

It’s actually easier with Logic. Use the same steps to set the xtouch mode. But use MC mode instead of HUI. When it’s in MC mode, Logic will detect the xtouch on its own and give you default controls automatically. You only need to go into your settings and adjust things if you want to map controls differently from the default. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching!

I’m sorry you’re having such a difficult time. If you feel like sending me a screenshot that shows the different I/o options you are seeing I can attempt to help you get up and running. Drop me a line at email@quickez.ca and I’ll see what I can do for you.

Hi, V2 is only for mixers that were manufactured during chip shortages that occurred due to COVID supply chain issues and used a different chipset that the original. I believe this chipset change affected the FPGA's used for DSP and nothing else. If you happened to purchase a mixer that was manufactured prior to this, then it would of course have the V1 hardware. But this should not cause you any issues, I have an XR that is V1 and it's still going strong. Your mixer should function without issue being V1.

Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for watching, and happy mixing!

Hi David, I'll tell you exactly what to do further down. But read the beginning to help you understand why things are different than you are expecting. The reason FX units or FX pedals don't have this many ways to do things, is because they are not mixers. They are simple machines. plug in a guitar, turn up the reverb, and away you go. On a mixer, you are "mixing" together input signals to make an overall balanced blend of your instruments for an audience to listen to. This includes the effects. And on a mixer with built-in FX, you need to send a signal to the FX unit (like when you plug your guitar into a pedal)...and THEN bring that newly altered signal from the FX unit BACK to the mixers surface so you can blend it in with the rest of your mix. It's more complicated because there is more going on than just plugging in 1 instrument. It's like when you have knob on your reverb pedal that is called Mix, or Wet, or something similar. When you turn that knob up, you get more of the effect and less of the original guitar sound. When you turn it down, you get more of the original and less of the effect. Having an effect return channel on a mixer is doing the same thing that the knob on the pedal is doing. To get what you're looking for, do the following. - Plug your guitar into input 1. - on the sidebar at the right, select the FX unit you are using for your reverb, 1, 2, 3, or 4 you'll see the master fader for that FX pop up in place of your main LR fader. - Bring that FX master up to a reasonable level. Then, raise the fader for channel 1 to a reasonable level. You have now sent signal from the input to the FX unit. The next step is to introduce your effect to your overall mix. - Select your "MAIN LR" button at the right side bar. - then raise the channel 1 fader to a reasonable level. Now you should be hearing your original guitar sound with no effect. NOW, the last set of faders on your mixer are labelled FX 1, FX 2, FX 3, FX4. - slowly raise the fader that corresponds to the FX unit you are using, 1, 2, 3, or 4. Now you should hear your effect starting to show up in your mix. put that at the level that feels comfortable for you. Thats it. You're done. the other ways of doing this, you can ignore for now. Get your head around this method. Hope this helps.

Are you saying that you're connected, and you can control the mix with your Xtouch but the window isn't changing along with what you're doing on the Xtouch? Or are you not able to control your mix with the Xtouch? Did you download and open the pre-configured X-touch configuration file? Do you have the X-touch set to the right mode (MC mode)? Did you change the size of the Xair Edit window or move something else in front of the window? Without more information I can't help.

@@QuickEZ Yes i have Download the file and import. My X touch control the Mixer XR 18 but te window on X air Edit not change when i use the encoder Assin on X touch. XR 18 FW1.22 Versioni 1.8.1 Xtouch FW 1.22 In OSI simulation Mode the fader not move

@@QuickEZ @QuickEZ it seems that it is the connection between Osi MIDI stage and XR Edit which does not work. Because if I connect in XCTL/MC My XR 18 is controlled by the Xtouch and Xr Edit works without interaction with Osimidi

This is very strange. Xair edit does not sync with the xtouch on its own. That is the whole point of using osimidi. I’d love to see a short video of this working. If you have time and wouldn’t mind doing it , please send me a short clip at Email@quickez.ca Either way, I’m glad it is working for you.

@@QuickEZ Ok I found the Solution . Oups I'm a stupid man because i dont push the SMPTE/BEAT Button on the X TOUCH . Its Perfect Thanks for your Video !!

Hi Paul, Nothing changes with how you bounce your tracks, you do that the way you always have. You need to make sure that your Mac audio output is set to use the XR18 as your sound output device. Go into: system settings > Sound > click on the output tab > and set the device to be your mixer. You will likely have multiple sets of outputs showing XR18 1-2 XR18 3-4 XR18 5-6 XR18 7-8 And so on, you get the idea... just choose the channel set you want to use, and then in the mixer software you can turn USB returns "on" in the channel tab. Once you've done this, the mixer takes over the duties of playing back your audio for all of your apps, not just Logic, through that USB send. Hope that helps. If you're still confused, just let me know and I'll try to clear things up for you. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

I keep telling my wife that. She seems reluctant to believe it 😉 Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Thank you Johnny! If you make the IEM sends post fader then any change you make to the level of an instrument in the main mix will change that level in your IEM mix. Generally that isn’t something people want. So just be aware of that. If you want to duplicate the mix in your IEM’s you can open your I/O window and then you can assign each bus to copy eother the Left or Right side of the main L/R output. For instance; - bus 1 (aux1) assign to main out Left -bus 2 (aux2) assign to main out Right - bus 3 (aux 3)assign to main out Left - bus 4 (aux4) assign to main out Right And so on. You can also choose pre or post fader when you do this. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

@@QuickEZ Thank you for your reply! This is great insight I will subscribe to your channel as well. One more question. So I get the importance now of pre fader and post fader ... If I copy the main mix L/R to my aux send will I get the same mix as front of house gets? This is more referring to FXs. Im trying to get the same mix as front of house with the FX giving the vocalist the opportunity to get more "into it."

Thanks Johnny, welcome aboard the QuickEZ sub-train, happy to have you! :) Yes, if you copy the mix it should have EVERYTHING that the house does including the FX.

Thank YOU!

Hi Jose, I don’t have any yet. But I do have some planned. I just haven’t had the time yet to make them. I’ll try to get some done soon! Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Hi mincento, thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately, you can’t make a single aux output into a stereo output. It just doesn’t work that way. All you can do is have the mono signal show up in both sides of a stereo destination. But your power play should have a mono button that would do the same thing from a single input. Or if you’re using these for in-ears, some IEM systems have the same ability in the pack, switching it to mono dumps the single input to both ears. On the flip side… You can turn the headphones jacks into additional aux outputs in the patching page. You can assign virtual aux 9 and 10 (which both have a left and right side to them) to the two headphone outputs which are also TRS so that’s two stereo outs right there. I realize that doesn’t quite solve your issue since you’d still be short on outputs, but you could potentially get 6 stereo mixes that way. If that just doesn’t cut it. I would suggest having some of your band mates share a stereo mix. Find out who can live with the same set of instruments in their mix and then try to hit the right number of stereo sends that way. It won’t be perfect, but when you have to work inside the limitations of your hardware, your band needs to work with you. I hope I’ve understood your question correctly. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Hi Bradley, Let me know if you get it running! I hate that pro tools still functions like this with controllers. But of course avid wants you to use their much more expensive surfaces so I suspect they’ll never adjust this functionality. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

I’m so happy you found this useful. I’m glad manuals exist but they aren’t as good as they should be. There are too many fine points they don’t touch on. This is why my entire channel exists…to fill those gaps and explain things as simply as possible. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Hi Syncmaster, If you’re only using the USB interface for your livestream then you have a couple of options. Unfortunately no, you can’t assign your virtual auxes to OBS. Those virtual auxes are not actually available in the USB sends to your computer. There are 32 USB sends and the are laid out as follows. Sends 1-10 are the soundcraft - Left - Right - aux 1 - aux 2 - aux 3 - aux 4 - aux 5 - aux 6 - aux 7 - aux 8 Then you have your actual channels starting on USB send 11 Send 11 is mixer channel 1 So anything you have on your L/R or your 8 auxes can be duplicated in your computer and sent to OBS OR, you can send every instrument channel into the computer simultaneous to doing a live mix, then create a new mix in your computer and send that new mix to OBS without interfering with anything you have happening live. Hope that helps, If you have more questions let me know. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

@@QuickEZ wow.. thank you for your quick reply. unfortunately, the latter option is not possible at the moment. actually, i haven't noticed the aux 9 and 10 on the ui interface. how can i make it visible?.. is it also possible to route that aux 9 and 10 to headphone jack 2? and run a TRS cable to another interface then to the computer?

No problem! The virtual 9/10 don’t show up as faders. You have to assign them to something in the patching screen. And yes you can assign the headphone outs to those and send additional mixes out via the headphone jacks. You can also assign the main L/R to them if you wanted to use those two XLR outs as additional auxes instead of a main house mix. In the patching page if you select the MASTERS tab at the top and the HW outs on the left, you’ll be able to see the aux 9 and 10 selection points.

@@QuickEZ Great! I will check it out this week. Its really hard doing both mix for FOH and doing the mix for Livestream.. not to mention, also people on stage's IEM... but I'm loving this UI24r except the wifi having some connections problem from time to time.

I totally get it. I was lucky enough to have a monitor engineer whenever I’d run FOH. The internal WiFi on every digital mixer is a nice thing to have but honestly, they aren’t robust enough for live mixing. You really should use an external 5ghz wifi router. If that’s not an option, make sure you’re NOT using the 2.4 ghz wifi in the UI. Use the 5g instead. The 2.4 spectrum is massively clogged with other public access points and consumer equipment. The internal 5g is more reliable.

Hi, And thank you! Latency is dependent on your buffer settings. The lower the setting the lower the latency. BUT lower buffer can also tax your system more. My general answer is, it’s generally very liveable for the average person. But of course some folks are more sensitive than others. You just need to find a balance between latency you can live with and leaving your system enough resources to handle your mix. Sorry I know that’s not a cut and dry answer like “it’s great!” But in general, if you’ve got a decent system the latency is totally useable. Thanks for watching, and happy mixing!

Glad this was useful to you. This is such a bothersome quirk with pro tools and matching controllers. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Thank you! I’m trying. Life keeps trying to interfere with my video releases. Thanks for watching.

Hi, You can use any audio interface to send streaming audio The soundcraft ui24 included. If your streaming audio is clipping, it means you probably have your sends set too high. You should be able to adjust the sends independently of any live audio. Adding in a UMC22 won’t fix your problems if you don’t know what your problems are. What are you currently using, the UI24, or something else?

@@QuickEZ ui24r,I use behinger mic usb interface and set aux output to -10db in mixer but the keyboard starts clipping in livestream obs and audio gets clipping sound

Hi Anoop, - 10 is clearly not enough. Decrease that even more until you remove the clipping of the keyboard in the livestream. If this reduces the overall signal too much, then you need to decrease the keyboard in your mix, or put a compressor/limiter on it so that it can't clip the signal. You can also try putting a compressor on your overall mix inside OBS to stop the signal from clipping on the stream. However, I would recommend trying to solve the keyboard issue inside your original mix instead of just trying to stop the clipping inside OBS. You'll have a much cleaner mix if you solve the problem at the source instead of the destination. I hope this helps.

@@QuickEZ can I use ui24r audio interface to connect obs studio

Hi, Yes you can use the ui24 with OBS. Any interface connected to your computer can be used with OBS for input or output.

Hi Anoop, click on the cog setting at the top of the screen. click the settings tab at the top right. click the global tab underneath the settings tab. at the left of the screen turn AUX SEND MUTE INHERITANCE to "ON". now when you mute a channel, it will mute it in all your Aux sends. The other way to do this is to change your Auxes to be "post fader" instead of "pre fader" but this will also change the way your auxes function for mixing so I would suggest doing the first method. hope that helps. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

@@QuickEZ Thank you so much it worked , there is no video about it on TH-cam 😀😀

Happy to help! I guess I should make that video. It's a great question, I can't believe no one has asked it before you. I've added it to my "videos to make" list. Thanks again for watching and thanks for the great question. Happy mixing!

Hi Ulisses, sorry for the late reply. in your xair edit software... go to your IN/OUT tab at the top right of the software. click on the AUX tab in the window that opens. for the aux that is giving you a problem, make sure it's DEFAULT SIGNAL TAP: is set to POST FADER. if it's set to anything other than that your bus master won't do anything. hope that helps. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Hi zn, That doesn’t appear to be possible. Sorry, I know that’s not the answer you were hoping for.

You’re welcome!

I’m very happy could help. Thank you very much for the contribution, it is appreciated! And thank you for watching. Happy mixing!

Hi Richard, For the aux sends you have pre and post fader button. And a pre/post processing button. Pre processing will send your signal without any of the processing. And of course pre/post fader will send it before or after the fader. That is as granular as your choices get unfortunately. It would be great if we could do a pre/post choice for each item individually (gate/comp/eq/) individually, but alas, this is not the case. Hope that answers your question Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Hi Joe, Unfortunately, no. Without mixing station, the xtouch connects directly to the mixer and not the software. Which is fine. However, when you make selections on the Xtouch, those selections are not reflected in the X Edit software. Basically, if you select EQ on the Xtouch for a channel, the software does not change to the EQ page for that channel. Your changes still work, the windows just don't change with your selection. It's frustrating limitation of using the Xtouch directly with an XR mixer. The only way to make that window change happen is by using either Mixing Station or OSIMIDI Stage as an intermediary software. Hope that answers your questions sufficiently. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Hi, Sorry for the delayed response. I didn’t know your comment/question was sitting here unanswered. I don’t believe you can add the bus master to the sends page. However, If you create a new layout and edit it, You can shrink the size of the mixer area slightly and then add a bus master channel. That will be your LR master when no bus is selected, but when you do select a bus it will become that busses master. And it will ALWAYS be visible. Hope that helps. Thanks for watching and happy mixing!

Glad it worked for you. Thanks for watching.

Hi Joel, They sure do !

​@@QuickEZmine do not...brand new xtouch

Send me an email. Email@quickez.ca

agreed. I NEVER use the internal router. But I need to provide information on that connectivity whenever I can. There are folks who use it at home and thats a pretty acceptable use-case for the internal router.

Hi Samuel, in this configuration you do NOT need osimidi. Mixing station can provide the same follow functions that osimidi provides.