Behringer Digital Mixers

[Chienmortbb]

As the Compact Mixer thread either seems to cover Allen & Heath CQ series or Behringer X Series mixers, when either is being discussed, it is of little interest to owners of the other. So this thread is for the Behringer X series, although discussions of the Wing series are also welcome.

[Steve Browning]

Well, the XR18 has arrived. A lot of $odding about to get connected to it. Even now I can connect to the external router via ethernet but no joy with WiFi. 

 

I could live without, but I want the other guys to have control over their monitors. 

[Elfrasho]

I have an XR18 and absoilutely love it. As an in ear monitor system, its astonishing value.

 

One question i have though is I've noticed that if I set up two channels to be stereo linked on one scene, but then load up a different scene, the stereo link remains on. Everything else changes exactly how I'd expect between scenes, apart from the stereo linking. Does anyone know if there's a reason for this, and is there anything I can do to stop it? This is on the behringer app if that makes a difference.

[Steve Browning]

Finally got wireless contact with the mixer and established an outline template for my main band. 

 

I'll create further templates for other scenarios. 

 

Getting started has had its frustrations but the future looks very exciting, in terms of what is possible. 

[Steve Browning]

The journey continues. I have three band templates, making sure band members have the same channels when they are in more than one band. No channel strips on an XR18. 

 

I have used the presets where Behringer have provided them. We'll fine tune in the rehearsal studio. 

 

I feel that a penny has dropped and the controls seem really quite intuitive now.

 

I'm very much a novice when it comes to compression and gates but the basics are there. 

 

I love the ability to save channel settings and copy them into a new template. 

[JPJ]

Having owned my XR18 for just over ten years, mixing from the side of the stage whilst playing, last night was a first for me as I went out as a sound guy, working for a mates band who had just bought their own XR18 (albeit v2). So before the gig, I created a new scene file on my XR with all the basic settings I could pre-gig (channel layout, hpf’s, global effects, stereo combinator etc and then took my Surface Go to the gig with the scene file loaded and simply transferred the scene to the their XR. I did update my firmware and X-Air Edit to the latest versions first so there were no difficulties between the v1 and v2 hardware and all worked perfectly. 

Being able to sit with a live band going for it really taught me a lot about my mix, particularly around eq’ing. Making space for each instrument is vital, and gating all those horrible open drum mics is essential to stop your whole mix becoming a mud bath. I really enjoyed the experience and the only complaint was they were too loud 😎 I also managed to multi-track record about 75% of the gig for them so will have fun over the coming days mixing that lot down. 

Interestingly, they were using a TP Link router with both 5GHz and 2.4GHz channels. I was using the 5GHz channel for the Surface Go, but my old 2012 MacBook that I was using as a back-up and to do the recording was connected on the 2.4GHz channel. The Surface Go suffered three drop outs over the course of the night whereas the MacBook stayed connected throughout the whole evening. The venue POS system was running on a 5GHz network albeit separate channel but I guess this was the culprit.