Job number 1 for an engineer: Know your equipment. Job number 2: See job number 1 It is not enough to know the make and model of the gear. You need to understand every function of the console and any outboard gear to get the best out of it. This was true when I started in the 70's and it is still true today.
Haha, I am so with you! I see it all the time. Along with routing issues. Those are the two things I look at first before I begin anything. Routing issues can be a lot more difficult to identify
Don't forget to turn off the ''generate'' switch in the oscillator panel after test. When it is active, it blocks the signal chain going to the chosen output. Dialling down the noise output volume knob to the infinite is not enough. It was really scary for me but I accidentally found the solution. Never seen this behaviour in the other brands before. Also I don't remember it on x32.
Happy day, had to revert to previous scene to overcome this problem of uncontrolled sound coming out when individual channels were down, came across this video just by chance - problem solved - Thank you.
Funny this is absolutely correct! Had a church that needed help and it took me a minute to figure out what was wrong LOL I’ve been a studio guy for decades and at the time I hadn’t worked with the M32 [X32] much. THE problem was a mixbuss master assigned to the stereo buss! That is a feature that seems somewhat unwanted or unneeded? Until you need a master layer for [a master EQ for feedback control?] on, say, something like a few choir area mics?? This is where that feature really shines… but you HAVE to remember to REMOVE all the channels that feed that master channel from the stereo buss [so they are ONLY heard THRU that mix buss]. For this to work.
I'm just discovering this unit..and you. Your knowledge of its incredible power layers is a Godsend. I think I'm sold. The bussing and effects sends seems limitless. I am not looking for live use just awesome Studio performance .. one track at a time one mic. I just refuse to go DAW like it's a covid vaccine.
Hi Drew, Thank you so much for making videos on X32 for the past several years. I've been learning a lot and because of you I've been able to teach other people at our church how to operate X32! I do have one video request if possible... would you be able to make a video on how to apply autotuner to the singers? I have a X-Live expansion card on my board. Letting you know in case that changes how you'd approach making this video if you decided to. Thank you so much for all of your awesome resources!
The biggest issue is the switch Record / Play in the input routing. 😂. I have search 20 minutes for this issue. Its comes nothing from the xlr inputs. After 20min i saw this litle switch right bottom the screen.
The issue I am encountering is when I have audio coming from an input and has a designated output, when on mute I am still able to hear the signal when I shouldn’t on my x32 rack. Any tips? Should my Mode be set to “record”? Or “play”?
Speaker mic question, would you put the pastor’s mic on its own sub group or with every other vocal with the effects turned down on the returns, or leave it standalone and apply effects on the channel?
Hi Drew and viewers. A few Sundays ago it seemed the subs lost their volume. During sound check and rehearsal they were nice and pumping. I know that I was changing some settings in the monitor section so my ears stopped getting blown out whenever I would switch to listen to a bus from the main stereo or solo channel. I am relatively new (less than a year on year on the board). After I made those changes in the monitor section, bass was still very full and present. When we were having our pre-service meeting, I had some house music from ipad playing and it seemed that all the bass just slowly went away, like the fader was getting pulled back. After the meeting concluded, there was about 10 minutes before start of service, I checked the subs to make sure they were powered on and hadn't somehow been turned off, made sure the xlr were still connected and hadn't been pulled out or loose, checked their connections to the S16's and then power cycled them. Nothing changed. If I increased the Mono Sub channel, the subs would get louder but the sounded really impeded. Like playing through a pillow. Service was started before I could really try and troubleshoot anything else and it seemed like the Bass was present with the bass guitar and drums pumping away but any minor reduction I made to drums of bass sounded like the whole sub was pulled down. so I ended up reducing main LR volume and just increasing the volume of the other channels to make a mix. The set up is LR+Mono and then we also have a bus channel for a center wedge speaker. Subs have drums, Bass guitar and keys sent to it and cuts all the high Freq. (I am trying to remember if I have electric and acoustic sent to the subs or not). Everything is sent to the main stereo mix and the main stereo mix cuts the low freq. I dont remember if I am using the buttersworth or the lr24 but I do know it has cuts on the subs and on the main stereo. We are a church that meets in a school and have to set up every week otherwise I would just go out to the church and toy around with the unit and find the problem on my own through trial and error. I only have a limited time to trouble shoot and try to find the issue and resolve it. My first thought is that in the monitor section, I do believe I turned the trim level down on the mono monitor and I am fairly certain the monitor output is LR AFL, though it could be LR+M. I cant recall off the top of my head. Would that create the sub woofer to be really muffled? My other thought was that the ethernet cable could be going bad and that the bass signal was maybe not being transmitted, but last week one of the other audio team members changed the cut on the main LR PA's and got Bass that way. That indicates that Bass freq are being sent to the S16. I think I first will check and make sure I didn't accidentally apply a compression to the sub channel. If there is no compression on the sub channel, I will plug one of the LR PA's into the sub channel to see if it plays bass. If it does, I know its the speakers or their connection. If it doesn't, I know its an issue with the the xlr cable or the s16. Any thoughts or tips that I should look at first?
We had this happen a few weeks ago, the bad thing is that we were getting click in our mains, that week i was out so i wasn't able to get this fixed until i got back. Apparently a band member started using the X32-Mix App in their iPad, and they enabled that Stereo send by mistake.
Hi. Just recently had a peer recommend your channel for all things X32. I am very novice and have recently stepped into helping out with our church's tech room. My skill level is enough to cause chaos bordering on actually understanding how things work. Recently, I was advised for our live stream that instead of using the Main LR outputs to feed our live stream that perhaps we should set up a separate stereo mix bus so that audio for our live stream could be mixed separate from our house mix. From poking around it appears our Main LR uses XLR outs 15 and 16 as well as being mapped to Aux 5 and 6 out. I created linked Mix Bus 11/12 and put those on Aux 5 and Aux 6. Audio now sounds washed out, overdriving and very distorted. Now thins coudl be any myriad of things but the overall "physical" path from our X32 console to our live stream set up is still the same. I would think even if balanced poorly I should still hear consistent audio. Of course, I could have things happening I am not aware of but figured I'd drop this in here just to see if you want to comment. I do appreciate the few videos I have watched thus far and hope to gain more insight as you continue to drop content.
Check out your cables first. Purchase brand new cables to go from your aux outs to your livestreaming source. You can also verify if this is a physical output issue instead of a routing or mix issue by plugging a pair of headphones into the board and pushing “solo” on your bus 11/12. If the mix you hear in your headphones sounds totally different from what is going to your stream, then chances are your cables are the issue, otherwise you can fix any potential issues you hear using your headphones (clipping, too much reverb, etc)
Drew! There are no videos on the Yamaha cl/ql & dante rio ds that are close to on par with what you've done for the Behringer x32/s32. You would easily be 'the guy' to go to on that console as you have become on this one! It would help me out a lot too... ha
Why can't I hear the fx when I solo the channel AND solo the fx channel? For example: I solo the snare channel and solo fx channel one (verb) and I can't hear the verb
Hey Drew thank you very much for supporting and teaching us with all your videos. Is it possible to share with us the music you use with each track so we can do tests?
All your videos has really helped me personally Sir can you please teach us how to send a channel from your x32 to the laptop (a daw) back the x32 as an output
Hey Drew, love your content. Could you please do a video on sharing outputs on a single s32 stage box. The scenario being an m32 at FOH and an X32 in monitor world. The question is, how can outputs be shared so that FOH and Monitor world can share the outputs of the s32. I would appreciate it!
say what you want about the X32, it is really a simple workflow. I kinda wish instead of the wing, they would have made a bigger version of the X32 with more DSP, the input density of the wing and a bigger screen. Maybe even throw in the plugin replacements of the eq/comp like the wing.
Question: I setup all my effects on buses and I do send those buses in stereo bus, which way do you do effects? On my buses there are things like stereo imager,... I used to put stereo maxer on my L+R but now I just put GEQ on stage monitors and Master. The only channel I don't put in LR is Bass as I send it in a subgroup, and on that subgroup I do another EQ and Comp sometimes, or maybe insert a suboctaver effect. How do you do effects generally? Or which way do you prefer of processing effects?
The X32 has the ability to save and recall all settings on the console. Even store those settings on a memory stick. So, you can recall settings for different bands, even from different venues. Even will help if someone messes with your console one day and you come back the next to find it all messed up. Just recall your settings and it's fixed! 😁
There is a MASSIVE oversight on these boards. Assigning to Main does not reset when you change from Sub Group to Send types, I found out the hard way when I a singer joined the band after I already set up the board to use Sub Groups and I had to change it to a Send for their wedge, which as this video descries simply adds into my Main mix. That is true for other settings in the MAIN tab, so if you had a Group controlled from a Mute Group, that also sticks... I also HATE it that all Sub Groups are ON by default which is extremely inconvenient when you have a larger mix and only need to group a few inputs. When this issue is combined with what I described above, it leaves you with Send that (unlike all your other 'default' sends) has to be turned ON with every channel (other that the ones that were assigned to the Group). As this is something you encounter on last minute changes, there will probably be more stress involved and not knowing this will mess you up because it leaves you chasing 2 or more issues with you mix routing that were 100% avoidable with the right design.
These are *_*not*_* the most common problems on the X32! They are the most common *_*mistakes*_* that people make. The most common problem is that the jog dials wear out and become inoperable.
the 2nd worse issue is making a send effect post-fader, often times even when the aux/bus is set as post-fader the effects on that bus are still pre-fader
Combination of mix bus config & routing. It could also be a combination of bus sends & routing if you are using a custom routing config for the mixbus.
Not sure if I understand what you are saying, but I usually have send effects as post fader sends. You’d want your vocal reverb decreasing if the vocal channel is getting quieter. Maybe you mean something different.
I remember the video, but can’t find it either. It’s about using the Assign tab on the right hand side of your console. You can setup a button which you tap to the BPM of a song for the delay effect.
I think the biggest problem I see with the x32 or any other mixer is people trying to make things too complicated. It’s easy to get enamored of all of the bells and whistles, but good gain staging and understanding the signal flow are much more important. Too often, I see gains set way too high, then compressors doing 10db or more of gain reduction, channel Eq’s and graphic eq’s cutting a ton of frequencies, and crazy effects routing. Most problems can be solved by doing the basics correctly. Don’t fix problems that aren’t problems (like compressing something because you read that you should).
I know of a church I work with seem to have DCAs for drums bass guitar keys and vocal but then they run the same sources to a “Band” DCA at the same time!!! Btw I thought post was suppose to be moved by the fader no pre when it comes to mixers x32 is opposite!!!
Shouldn’t be a problem, in a recent video Drew explained what DCAs actually are. Think of it as controlling all the selected faders/channels at once, they don’t output to anything. Unlike the mixbuses Drew has setup in this video, these DCAs are NOT sent to the stereo bus.
@@realbingusdca’s don’t carry audio, they are remote controls for other faders, so you can’t send them to a stereo bus even if you wanted to do so. Having a channel in more than one dca isn’t uncommon though, on any board that allows it. I regularly have an fx dca (on a digico it’s called a control group, but same thing) and my vocal delay also on its own dca. One controls the overall effects volume and one is just the delay, relative to that other level.
@@realbingus yes, after I saw your reply I realized I missed that you said they have no output! So I guess I was just clarifying for @iengineer_247 that they can’t go to the stereo buss because there is no output…which is what you said too! On another note, have you used theatremix with the x32/m32 yet? U.S. brilliant. It makes it so much easier to do theater with this console, and I can see tons of uses not for theater as well. I’ve only used it on theater shows so far because when I have to bring my m32 setup there’s usually limited time, as well as limited setup space. Most of my work Involves systems that are provided or installed, but after a detour away from my x32 rack/ dl16 setup to a sound craft ui24r, I came to the realization about 6 months ago that the x/m32 universe is really the most capable setup for the money. Theatremix really took that over the top.
Hey Drew, we run a live stream mix through Bus 9 and 10. How do I get my mute to follow FOH? I want the mic to mute on Bus 9 and 10 when I mute it on the main mix.
Are your mix bus 9&10 configured to be Post Fader? I believe you can find this by heading to the Routing tab, pressing the “right arrow” until you find the “Out” tab. Over there you scroll down to your mixbus (Out 9&10) and check what it is set to, it should be Post Fader.
Servo-type DCA on Presonus and Digico desks work better on preventing this type of mistake. That is, when you move a DCA fader, all the faders on DCA-controlled channels move proportionally, and the dial markings on them are always correct.
We have x32 all a once we have lh and rh house we have lost one side I would think it is muted, but haven't been able to gain a fix all power amps are on seen to be good. ?? Jack Watkins
You can send your talkback to a mixbus in your Talkback/Monitor menu. In the P16 Routing settings you can send this mixbus to one of the channels on the Behringer P16.
@@realbingus please will you kindly do a video about how to do what you said about it please cos have done everything I know but it's still now working and we have a program coming on this Friday God willing and the musicians will need it please bless you.
@@quameowusuAllamHouse has a video titled “How To Send Your Talkback MicTo Monitors” on this. I can’t share the link because it would get filtered, but I hope it helps ya.
Hi there, it’s because your effects are returned through Fx Returns. These are the ones you actually want to use while mixing. You can bring these up by pressing the “Aux In” button on the left of your console.
You use the “Fx mixbus” to set different levels of the effect to different inputs/microphones. Make sure that the Fx Returns are sent to the “Stereo Bus”.
Where do you want your effects returns sent in the case that you're using sub-groups to mix? I see you did not want the effects returned to the stereo mix buss, but you did not clarify what should be done instead. My assumption would be that effects returns should go to the sub-group that contains the channels that contribute to the effect in question (e.g., VOX channels sent to a plate reverb, and L+R plate reverb returned to the stereo VOX subgroup).
You could use subgroups, or you just send the FX returns to the stereo (Main L&R) bus. If you’d prefer to use a mixbus or two as a subgroup, you can just select it, hit fader flip, and bring up the FX return there.
@@realbingus Thanks. I do see an issue where reverb sent to the LR stereo bus remains in the mix, even if the sub-group fader is all the way down. Certainly, we don't want to see the wet/dry ratio change as we adjust the sub-group volume fader.
lol I accidentally did this at one of my band's gigs with the XR18. I could not for the life of me figure out why we kept having sound come through when I had certain things muted. We just made it work and got it mixed decently and I figure it out after the show. DOH!
I did a concert last week and noticed my monitor was being fed to the mains and didn't know why. I will check this out and see if that is the reason. Thank you for the video.
Sorry for this negative comment. But I don’t get it why people still recommend the X32. In my eyes is one of the most complicated and cryptic routing interfaces ever! And the Bord doesn’t sound good as well. It’s a dinosaur and it has to be replaced… not a friend. Sorry ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
There's plenty of worse recent mixers out there (e.g. A&H SQ series). You really need a couple of hours on it and you see how easy it is. I converted a lot of colleagues already 😂
@@gianlucagigliotti4026 sorry but SQ series is not really comparable with the X32. A&H interface is super easy. Especially when it comes to routing and flexibility. And it sounds a lot better…. Like a ton. If you ever had the experience to mix over 96khz on a very well tuned PA. It’s day and night compared to other cheap brands.🤷🏼♂️ I use a SQ5 by myself and plugged in the same band with the same sources. Never had more compliments from people who know the band, how good it sounded. And didn’t do a lot to it. They haf a presonus 64S before and even this board sounds better than X32 or M32 (which is exactly the same mixer btw)
Even in mono, not everyone will have the same experience. Things like acoustics and comb filtering will affect the sound you hear based on where you are in the venue The biggest mistake I come across is hard panning L and R. I find that stereo instruments, delays and reverbs just sound better when they're not summed to mono.
@@BartKrap Nope. No concert from a major artist, with sound people who are worth their salt, is ever produced in stereo. You are simply wrong about this. Yes, there are compromises which must be made to accommodate a monaural mix, such as stereo effects which must be reworked, but the solution is to do that work, not mix in stereo for a LIVE audience. Too few people would be anywhere near the stereo sweet spot.
I certainly disagree. I have been doing live sound mixing for almost 60 years, and I always mix anything I can in stereo. It cannot be done in every venue, but depending on the shape and width of the audience, and with proper speaker orientation and number of speakers, you can provide a reasonable stereo sound field for a large percentage of the audience in many venues, and it can make a HUGE difference. Done properly, it can help the individual vocals stand out from each other, or 2 electric guitars, or 2 acoustic guitars. It also maximizes the use of special effects, which are almost always generated in full stereo, for a good reason! You do have to be careful to NOT use extreme far panning for individual instruments or voices, but keyboards do generate different signals on the left and right channels, which are MEANT to be delivered to the audience IN STEREO, and yet almost no live sound techs even use both outputs from a keyboard. That has always surprised me! It is super effective for drum kits with 2 or better yet, 3 toms. Also, combing occurs when both speakers have the exact SAME signal going to both of them. Any difference in those signals (ie stereo) lessens or eliminates the combing effects.
@@marktomlinson3448 you are wrong and have been so for a long time. Try it the right way and use what you’ve learned about EQ and definition without sacrificing quality for at least a sizable percentage of your audience. This is not even a meaningful debate in the professional reinforcement community.
sometimes it's the little basics that trip us up.. thanks for this clarification!
Job number 1 for an engineer: Know your equipment.
Job number 2: See job number 1
It is not enough to know the make and model of the gear. You need to understand every function of the console and any outboard gear to get the best out of it. This was true when I started in the 70's and it is still true today.
Thanks drew! These short simple fixes are so quick to watch and can make a world of difference on my mix.
I had this happened to me! My friend who was much more experienced was unable to figure out why too. Now I know!
Just got one of these for our church. Thanks for the info.
Haha, I am so with you! I see it all the time. Along with routing issues. Those are the two things I look at first before I begin anything. Routing issues can be a lot more difficult to identify
Don't forget to turn off the ''generate'' switch in the oscillator panel after test. When it is active, it blocks the signal chain going to the chosen output. Dialling down the noise output volume knob to the infinite is not enough. It was really scary for me but I accidentally found the solution. Never seen this behaviour in the other brands before. Also I don't remember it on x32.
I found this very issue last night at a church that had asked me to help with their issues.
Drew - thank you. These tips are valuable. I checked our X32 and found one with stereo on. Not now.
Happy day, had to revert to previous scene to overcome this problem of uncontrolled sound coming out when individual channels were down, came across this video just by chance - problem solved - Thank you.
Very good and so spot on. Thank you for this fix.
Funny this is absolutely correct! Had a church that needed help and it took me a minute to figure out what was wrong LOL I’ve been a studio guy for decades and at the time I hadn’t worked with the M32 [X32] much. THE problem was a mixbuss master assigned to the stereo buss! That is a feature that seems somewhat unwanted or unneeded? Until you need a master layer for [a master EQ for feedback control?] on, say, something like a few choir area mics?? This is where that feature really shines… but you HAVE to remember to REMOVE all the channels that feed that master channel from the stereo buss [so they are ONLY heard THRU that mix buss]. For this to work.
Man I really appreciate your videos 🙏🏾🙏🏾
I'm just discovering this unit..and you. Your knowledge of its incredible power layers is a Godsend.
I think I'm sold.
The bussing and effects sends seems limitless.
I am not looking for live use just awesome Studio performance .. one track at a time one mic.
I just refuse to go DAW like it's a covid vaccine.
Can you make a video showing how to route X32 Rack w/S16 to get 12 outputs for IEMs. Not having any luck getting the S16 outputs to work right.
Hurra! Wenigstens ein X32-Fehler, den ich noch nie gemacht habe.
Hi Drew, Thank you so much for making videos on X32 for the past several years. I've been learning a lot and because of you I've been able to teach other people at our church how to operate X32!
I do have one video request if possible... would you be able to make a video on how to apply autotuner to the singers? I have a X-Live expansion card on my board. Letting you know in case that changes how you'd approach making this video if you decided to.
Thank you so much for all of your awesome resources!
Where can I get those tracks for practice kindly
I have yet to see a video covering the basic install of amps, eqs, subwoofers, FOH, wedges, etc to the X32.
The biggest issue is the switch Record / Play in the input routing. 😂. I have search 20 minutes for this issue. Its comes nothing from the xlr inputs. After 20min i saw this litle switch right bottom the screen.
Digging the stache my man!
The issue I am encountering is when I have audio coming from an input and has a designated output, when on mute I am still able to hear the signal when I shouldn’t on my x32 rack. Any tips? Should my Mode be set to “record”? Or “play”?
Speaker mic question, would you put the pastor’s mic on its own sub group or with every other vocal with the effects turned down on the returns, or leave it standalone and apply effects on the channel?
I'm a little confused as to why you wouldn't send the FX buses to the Stereo LR?
the ruturns should go to LR not the sends
GREAT TIP! TY!
Thank you Drew!!
Hi Drew and viewers.
A few Sundays ago it seemed the subs lost their volume. During sound check and rehearsal they were nice and pumping. I know that I was changing some settings in the monitor section so my ears stopped getting blown out whenever I would switch to listen to a bus from the main stereo or solo channel. I am relatively new (less than a year on year on the board). After I made those changes in the monitor section, bass was still very full and present. When we were having our pre-service meeting, I had some house music from ipad playing and it seemed that all the bass just slowly went away, like the fader was getting pulled back.
After the meeting concluded, there was about 10 minutes before start of service, I checked the subs to make sure they were powered on and hadn't somehow been turned off, made sure the xlr were still connected and hadn't been pulled out or loose, checked their connections to the S16's and then power cycled them. Nothing changed. If I increased the Mono Sub channel, the subs would get louder but the sounded really impeded. Like playing through a pillow.
Service was started before I could really try and troubleshoot anything else and it seemed like the Bass was present with the bass guitar and drums pumping away but any minor reduction I made to drums of bass sounded like the whole sub was pulled down. so I ended up reducing main LR volume and just increasing the volume of the other channels to make a mix.
The set up is LR+Mono and then we also have a bus channel for a center wedge speaker.
Subs have drums, Bass guitar and keys sent to it and cuts all the high Freq. (I am trying to remember if I have electric and acoustic sent to the subs or not). Everything is sent to the main stereo mix and the main stereo mix cuts the low freq. I dont remember if I am using the buttersworth or the lr24 but I do know it has cuts on the subs and on the main stereo.
We are a church that meets in a school and have to set up every week otherwise I would just go out to the church and toy around with the unit and find the problem on my own through trial and error. I only have a limited time to trouble shoot and try to find the issue and resolve it.
My first thought is that in the monitor section, I do believe I turned the trim level down on the mono monitor and I am fairly certain the monitor output is LR AFL, though it could be LR+M. I cant recall off the top of my head. Would that create the sub woofer to be really muffled?
My other thought was that the ethernet cable could be going bad and that the bass signal was maybe not being transmitted, but last week one of the other audio team members changed the cut on the main LR PA's and got Bass that way. That indicates that Bass freq are being sent to the S16.
I think I first will check and make sure I didn't accidentally apply a compression to the sub channel.
If there is no compression on the sub channel, I will plug one of the LR PA's into the sub channel to see if it plays bass. If it does, I know its the speakers or their connection. If it doesn't, I know its an issue with the the xlr cable or the s16.
Any thoughts or tips that I should look at first?
We had this happen a few weeks ago, the bad thing is that we were getting click in our mains, that week i was out so i wasn't able to get this fixed until i got back. Apparently a band member started using the X32-Mix App in their iPad, and they enabled that Stereo send by mistake.
I assume this is the case with mutes. What I mean is, you can press mute, but you will still hear signal going the stereo bus, correct?
Sure Drew am pretty interested with working with you
Good afternoon sir! I always enjoy your videos on the x32. My question: Do you have to have a limiter set for your live stream bus channels
In case my comment with the yt link is filtered, the title of the video is: “Church Stream Audio Setup - Louder Stream Audio LUFS”
Great video
Hi. Just recently had a peer recommend your channel for all things X32. I am very novice and have recently stepped into helping out with our church's tech room. My skill level is enough to cause chaos bordering on actually understanding how things work. Recently, I was advised for our live stream that instead of using the Main LR outputs to feed our live stream that perhaps we should set up a separate stereo mix bus so that audio for our live stream could be mixed separate from our house mix. From poking around it appears our Main LR uses XLR outs 15 and 16 as well as being mapped to Aux 5 and 6 out. I created linked Mix Bus 11/12 and put those on Aux 5 and Aux 6. Audio now sounds washed out, overdriving and very distorted. Now thins coudl be any myriad of things but the overall "physical" path from our X32 console to our live stream set up is still the same. I would think even if balanced poorly I should still hear consistent audio. Of course, I could have things happening I am not aware of but figured I'd drop this in here just to see if you want to comment. I do appreciate the few videos I have watched thus far and hope to gain more insight as you continue to drop content.
Check out your cables first. Purchase brand new cables to go from your aux outs to your livestreaming source. You can also verify if this is a physical output issue instead of a routing or mix issue by plugging a pair of headphones into the board and pushing “solo” on your bus 11/12. If the mix you hear in your headphones sounds totally different from what is going to your stream, then chances are your cables are the issue, otherwise you can fix any potential issues you hear using your headphones (clipping, too much reverb, etc)
Why wouldn’t you want the fx in the stereo bus?
You don't want the FX sends to go anywhere but to the FX units... but the FX returns will likel6 go to the stereo bus.
Corrrrrectttt @@NukePooch1
Drew! There are no videos on the Yamaha cl/ql & dante rio ds that are close to on par with what you've done for the Behringer x32/s32. You would easily be 'the guy' to go to on that console as you have become on this one! It would help me out a lot too... ha
great tips Drew!
Excellent, thank you.
Why can't I hear the fx when I solo the channel AND solo the fx channel? For example: I solo the snare channel and solo fx channel one (verb) and I can't hear the verb
Hey Drew thank you very much for supporting and teaching us with all your videos.
Is it possible to share with us the music you use with each track so we can do tests?
All your videos has really helped me personally
Sir can you please teach us how to send a channel from your x32 to the laptop (a daw) back the x32 as an output
Thanks for your videos. They are well presented. I would like you to do a video with the hub 4, Midas32, and at least 2 DP 48. Thanks. Bro. Andrew
Another common thing I see with the X32, is making it do everything it can possibly do. Keep it simple
How to send main to stereo and sub to mono bus?
Thank you Drew
Hey Drew, love your content. Could you please do a video on sharing outputs on a single s32 stage box. The scenario being an m32 at FOH and an X32 in monitor world. The question is, how can outputs be shared so that FOH and Monitor world can share the outputs of the s32. I would appreciate it!
First thing to know is that the s32 XLRs are patched from port A.
I can send any channel to my mixbus using send on fader. But the mixbus master fader control does not work. Help please..
Great info!
So true this is a huge issue
What can you do to fix the frequent breakout of the ethernet cable (AES50 CONNECTION)
Use an Ethercon cable. Remember that the cable and its connector should be shielded Cat5E.
say what you want about the X32, it is really a simple workflow. I kinda wish instead of the wing, they would have made a bigger version of the X32 with more DSP, the input density of the wing and a bigger screen. Maybe even throw in the plugin replacements of the eq/comp like the wing.
Question: I setup all my effects on buses and I do send those buses in stereo bus, which way do you do effects? On my buses there are things like stereo imager,... I used to put stereo maxer on my L+R but now I just put GEQ on stage monitors and Master. The only channel I don't put in LR is Bass as I send it in a subgroup, and on that subgroup I do another EQ and Comp sometimes, or maybe insert a suboctaver effect. How do you do effects generally? Or which way do you prefer of processing effects?
The first 4 FX have seperate return channels on the AUX page. If you send the whole bus to main LR then you are sending it without the effect.
Tips for using an digital mixers : Always reset the settings it if a new band or new sets come in.
The X32 has the ability to save and recall all settings on the console. Even store those settings on a memory stick. So, you can recall settings for different bands, even from different venues. Even will help if someone messes with your console one day and you come back the next to find it all messed up. Just recall your settings and it's fixed! 😁
There is a MASSIVE oversight on these boards.
Assigning to Main does not reset when you change from Sub Group to Send types,
I found out the hard way when I a singer joined the band after I already set up the board to use Sub Groups and I had to change it to a Send for their wedge, which as this video descries simply adds into my Main mix.
That is true for other settings in the MAIN tab, so if you had a Group controlled from a Mute Group, that also sticks...
I also HATE it that all Sub Groups are ON by default which is extremely inconvenient when you have a larger mix and only need to group a few inputs.
When this issue is combined with what I described above, it leaves you with Send that (unlike all your other 'default' sends) has to be turned ON with every channel (other that the ones that were assigned to the Group).
As this is something you encounter on last minute changes, there will probably be more stress involved and not knowing this will mess you up because it leaves you chasing 2 or more issues with you mix routing that were 100% avoidable with the right design.
I use mixing station to paste a default mix the way i want it ;)
Worst problem for me is the left rotary knob below the display slipping, forcing us to rotate it very slowly.
These are *_*not*_* the most common problems on the X32!
They are the most common *_*mistakes*_* that people make.
The most common problem is that the jog dials wear out and become inoperable.
the 2nd worse issue is making a send effect post-fader, often times even when the aux/bus is set as post-fader the effects on that bus are still pre-fader
Combination of mix bus config & routing. It could also be a combination of bus sends & routing if you are using a custom routing config for the mixbus.
Not sure if I understand what you are saying, but I usually have send effects as post fader sends. You’d want your vocal reverb decreasing if the vocal channel is getting quieter.
Maybe you mean something different.
Im looking for the video you done on buttons you said that churches done use a lot
I remember the video, but can’t find it either. It’s about using the Assign tab on the right hand side of your console. You can setup a button which you tap to the BPM of a song for the delay effect.
Great info..!!
Hi! Do X32 has an ability to solo-in-place? Maybe you have a kind of lifehack to make it possible?
You mean solo on the speakers? Just create a button that mutes every channel, and unmute the one you wish to solo
I think the biggest problem I see with the x32 or any other mixer is people trying to make things too complicated. It’s easy to get enamored of all of the bells and whistles, but good gain staging and understanding the signal flow are much more important.
Too often, I see gains set way too high, then compressors doing 10db or more of gain reduction, channel Eq’s and graphic eq’s cutting a ton of frequencies, and crazy effects routing. Most problems can be solved by doing the basics correctly. Don’t fix problems that aren’t problems (like compressing something because you read that you should).
Agree…I mix with only eq, compression, gates and maybe reverb…everything else is just extra.
Hi drew , i have X32 but is blocking its self some time
I know of a church I work with seem to have DCAs for drums bass guitar keys and vocal but then they run the same sources to a “Band” DCA at the same time!!! Btw I thought post was suppose to be moved by the fader no pre when it comes to mixers x32 is opposite!!!
Shouldn’t be a problem, in a recent video Drew explained what DCAs actually are. Think of it as controlling all the selected faders/channels at once, they don’t output to anything. Unlike the mixbuses Drew has setup in this video, these DCAs are NOT sent to the stereo bus.
@@realbingusdca’s don’t carry audio, they are remote controls for other faders, so you can’t send them to a stereo bus even if you wanted to do so.
Having a channel in more than one dca isn’t uncommon though, on any board that allows it. I regularly have an fx dca (on a digico it’s called a control group, but same thing) and my vocal delay also on its own dca. One controls the overall effects volume and one is just the delay, relative to that other level.
@@mrufino1we said the same thing in different ways, but we agree :)
@@realbingus yes, after I saw your reply I realized I missed that you said they have no output! So I guess I was just clarifying for @iengineer_247 that they can’t go to the stereo buss because there is no output…which is what you said too!
On another note, have you used theatremix with the x32/m32 yet? U.S. brilliant. It makes it so much easier to do theater with this console, and I can see tons of uses not for theater as well. I’ve only used it on theater shows so far because when I have to bring my m32 setup there’s usually limited time, as well as limited setup space. Most of my work
Involves systems that are provided or installed, but after a detour away from my x32 rack/ dl16 setup to a sound craft ui24r, I came to the realization about 6 months ago that the x/m32 universe is really the most capable setup for the money. Theatremix really took that over the top.
Hey Drew, we run a live stream mix through Bus 9 and 10. How do I get my mute to follow FOH? I want the mic to mute on Bus 9 and 10 when I mute it on the main mix.
Are your mix bus 9&10 configured to be Post Fader? I believe you can find this by heading to the Routing tab, pressing the “right arrow” until you find the “Out” tab. Over there you scroll down to your mixbus (Out 9&10) and check what it is set to, it should be Post Fader.
@@realbingus I will check. The problem is some of the channels follow and some don't.
@@realbingus yes 9 and 10 are set to post fader.
@@harrison12281hmm that is interesting, it should at least follow the mute then. Not following the fader could be fixed with bus sends.
one another common problem: DCA muted or turn down or wrong (forget) channel assign to DCA
Servo-type DCA on Presonus and Digico desks work better on preventing this type of mistake.
That is, when you move a DCA fader, all the faders on DCA-controlled channels move proportionally, and the dial markings on them are always correct.
We have x32 all a once we have lh and rh house we have lost one side I would think it is muted, but haven't been able to gain a fix all power amps are on seen to be good. ??
Jack Watkins
Please how can I set a talk back on behringer P16 thank you
You can send your talkback to a mixbus in your Talkback/Monitor menu. In the P16 Routing settings you can send this mixbus to one of the channels on the Behringer P16.
@@realbingus please will you kindly do a video about how to do what you said about it please cos have done everything I know but it's still now working and we have a program coming on this Friday God willing and the musicians will need it please bless you.
@@quameowusuAllamHouse has a video titled “How To Send Your Talkback MicTo Monitors” on this. I can’t share the link because it would get filtered, but I hope it helps ya.
It also looks like someone accidentally patched your drums to the second layer.
i always have my drums on the second layer, lets me put the whole rest on one layer
Im going to check all this info right now 😂😂😂
Thanks Drew
That just happened to me this weekend , I figured it out but lost a few mins of soundcheck. Thanks Drew your videos are super helpful !
It's so obvious, but it happens. Thank you for keeping this on our radar!
Wait. Why don't I want my fx not going to LR? isn't that the main purpose for the fx buses?
Great question
Hi there, it’s because your effects are returned through Fx Returns. These are the ones you actually want to use while mixing.
You can bring these up by pressing the “Aux In” button on the left of your console.
He is saying you don’t want your FX send to go to your LR. The returns are what you want
You use the “Fx mixbus” to set different levels of the effect to different inputs/microphones. Make sure that the Fx Returns are sent to the “Stereo Bus”.
@@MatrixTunnelyes :)
That's why I like analogue, lol.
Where do you want your effects returns sent in the case that you're using sub-groups to mix? I see you did not want the effects returned to the stereo mix buss, but you did not clarify what should be done instead. My assumption would be that effects returns should go to the sub-group that contains the channels that contribute to the effect in question (e.g., VOX channels sent to a plate reverb, and L+R plate reverb returned to the stereo VOX subgroup).
You could use subgroups, or you just send the FX returns to the stereo (Main L&R) bus.
If you’d prefer to use a mixbus or two as a subgroup, you can just select it, hit fader flip, and bring up the FX return there.
@@realbingus Thanks. I do see an issue where reverb sent to the LR stereo bus remains in the mix, even if the sub-group fader is all the way down. Certainly, we don't want to see the wet/dry ratio change as we adjust the sub-group volume fader.
By the way, by default no mix bus is sent to the stereo fader!
You have to be really stupid to make that mistake!
Unless you want to use it as a group since behringer doesnt have such a thing..
I hate that button. 😂
lol I accidentally did this at one of my band's gigs with the XR18. I could not for the life of me figure out why we kept having sound come through when I had certain things muted. We just made it work and got it mixed decently and I figure it out after the show. DOH!
I did a concert last week and noticed my monitor was being fed to the mains and didn't know why. I will check this out and see if that is the reason. Thank you for the video.
Sorry for this negative comment. But I don’t get it why people still recommend the X32. In my eyes is one of the most complicated and cryptic routing interfaces ever! And the Bord doesn’t sound good as well. It’s a dinosaur and it has to be replaced… not a friend. Sorry ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼
It is still used a lot, and has a very similar interface to the Midas M32. When you use something like the Mixing Station app, routing becomes easier.
But yeah, the Behringer Wing is the modern alternative.
There's plenty of worse recent mixers out there (e.g. A&H SQ series).
You really need a couple of hours on it and you see how easy it is. I converted a lot of colleagues already 😂
@@realbingus true. Mixing station is a great alternative. Still the sound isn’t on par with 2024 standards.
@@gianlucagigliotti4026 sorry but SQ series is not really comparable with the X32. A&H interface is super easy. Especially when it comes to routing and flexibility.
And it sounds a lot better…. Like a ton. If you ever had the experience to mix over 96khz on a very well tuned PA. It’s day and night compared to other cheap brands.🤷🏼♂️
I use a SQ5 by myself and plugged in the same band with the same sources. Never had more compliments from people who know the band, how good it sounded. And didn’t do a lot to it.
They haf a presonus 64S before and even this board sounds better than X32 or M32 (which is exactly the same mixer btw)
Behringer has terrible gear.
Never heard it sound good.
Faders are crap
They should not ever mix house in stereo in the first place. Stereo is only good for people sitting in a narrow optimal range.
Even in mono, not everyone will have the same experience.
Things like acoustics and comb filtering will affect the sound you hear based on where you are in the venue
The biggest mistake I come across is hard panning L and R. I find that stereo instruments, delays and reverbs just sound better when they're not summed to mono.
@@BartKrap Nope. No concert from a major artist, with sound people who are worth their salt, is ever produced in stereo. You are simply wrong about this. Yes, there are compromises which must be made to accommodate a monaural mix, such as stereo effects which must be reworked, but the solution is to do that work, not mix in stereo for a LIVE audience. Too few people would be anywhere near the stereo sweet spot.
I certainly disagree. I have been doing live sound mixing for almost 60 years, and I always mix anything I can in stereo. It cannot be done in every venue, but depending on the shape and width of the audience, and with proper speaker orientation and number of speakers, you can provide a reasonable stereo sound field for a large percentage of the audience in many venues, and it can make a HUGE difference. Done properly, it can help the individual vocals stand out from each other, or 2 electric guitars, or 2 acoustic guitars. It also maximizes the use of special effects, which are almost always generated in full stereo, for a good reason! You do have to be careful to NOT use extreme far panning for individual instruments or voices, but keyboards do generate different signals on the left and right channels, which are MEANT to be delivered to the audience IN STEREO, and yet almost no live sound techs even use both outputs from a keyboard. That has always surprised me! It is super effective for drum kits with 2 or better yet, 3 toms. Also, combing occurs when both speakers have the exact SAME signal going to both of them. Any difference in those signals (ie stereo) lessens or eliminates the combing effects.
@@marktomlinson3448 you are wrong and have been so for a long time. Try it the right way and use what you’ve learned about EQ and definition without sacrificing quality for at least a sizable percentage of your audience. This is not even a meaningful debate in the professional reinforcement community.