A basic overview and tutorial for using the Behringer Super-X Pro CX3400 crossover unit. It's a really nice unit with many features. Very impressed so far.
Thx man your vid helped me out a lot. I have a Behringer Eq and Crossover with my Mixer, two 8" 2 way and a 10" Sub. Instruction Manuel's were rubbish. You was a big help. Thx again
Hi! I know 5 yrs ago, but if you get this, can I ask you a question. This is for home audio and not car, which a lot of these things are made for. I need a crossover to a new Open Baffle, 2 speaker driver( 2 each side ) My concern is the top and mid end is in a coaxial driver ( the other is the low bass driver ) so 2 way but in fact its 3 way if you take into account the coaxial handles 2 frequencies. Question would the CX3400 ( now version 2 ) be able to handle the crossover settings ? many thanks.
How did you get into work for your 218? Sublevel out on mine is still sending High's, mids and vocals. I got this crossover so I can send sub signals to my dual 18 cabinet
Hi. Did you use it the end with bass gutar rig? How do you like it? Is this latency free analog crossover, did you hear any delay in comarison with the guitar going streight in to the bass amp and cab? Sory on my bad English.
I have inherited some equipment... I've never used a crossover before. I have two unpowered combo cabs peavy 115tls horn/Tweeter not sure which, with a 15 in speaker. one giant 18-inch subwoofer cab by celestion, GR series. I also got it crate mixer board but I am hoping to use my Mackie 1202 as the other one is overkill I think. A PM 1400 Carver Poweramp, and a Carver PM 15 power amp. trying to figure out the best way to hook this up, your setup is quite different but thought you might have some advice. also a note, my 1202 mixer only has quarter-inch outputs. do I need to run some kind of adapter?
I GOT HE SAME CX3400 AND THE FURMAN M8X2 .....I DON'T HAVE ANY USE FOR THEM NOW, THOUGH. YOUR SHIT SOUND GOOD, THOUGH. THANK YOU FOR THE LITTLE DEMONSTRATION.
You already said it! From mixer, it go to Equalizer, then to crossover, then finally to power amplifier! Mine, I did four routes. From Mixer out to Sonic Maximizer in, then out to Equalizer in, then out to crossover in, finally out to Power Amplifier input!
Hello, I set one of these up and basically want to send the highs to my powered tops and then connect a powered sub from my mixer for more control. Can you verify that if I just connect the highs and leave the sub output blank this will cut the lows to my speakers. Another reason I am doing this is my sub only has rca jacks.... May be stupid question and yes I'm a newb, thanks for any info
XXVelocityXX I took a trs 1/4 jack to rca jacks from an aux send on my mixer to my sub... And it seems to work, just started playing with it. Thanks for the reply! Appreciate it!
I would like to build handcrafted audio speakers. As I understand it this tool is useful for replacing the passive crossover usually found inside the speaker cabinet. Is it possible to use this tool to adjust each frequency respectively for high - medium - low? Thanks
Hello really nice review! Do you know the difference between your CX3400 and the CX2310? I want to buy one but only for private parties and I dont need any special features.Would you still recommend the XC3400 more than the CX2310?
Thanks just got one of these and your video is extremely helpful. Question,, and appreciate any info you can provide, if I did the three way set up would I plug the high and mid into my powered speaker? I notice they have two inputs. If so is there any advantage to doing that?
Hi elk, powered speakers are internally crossed over, so you wouldn't necessarily send two inputs to a powered speaker from a unit like this in hopes to divide the frequency between the tweeter and woofer. That other speaker input is probably for another audio device like a guitar or microphone. You can; however, adjust your output frequency to your powered speakers using this device, which is nice since it will be within your reach using a nearby rackmount case.
@@evanjohnmo Hi, I'm thinking about buying a more simpler Behringer CX2310 how do I connect my 2-way 15" speakers, do connect to the high outputs or low outputs?. Nice review by the way.
I seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding with pa crossover modules. Why do they make the crossover knobs L/R as appose to Low/High? It doesn't make sense to me that I have to control L/R crossover points with 2 knobs. Is there a 2 way module where I only need to control one knob for the crossover point for the whole setup?
You may already have figured this out, but the only way to operate with just one knob is if you are running in Mono. I'm not sure if you would want a 2 way mono system in fairness. Mono for subs is fine but for the tops/mid stereo is preferable unless you have both speakers in different locations (a house party with one speaker in one room and one in another). Hope that helps.
I feel like it didn’t increase or help my amps head room. I feel like I still have to crank my amp up all the way in order to be able to power my woofers. Plugged it in exactly the same as you did everything exactly the same but not getting the same result. Still have my amp abs the Xpro at like +4/+6 dB Any ideas or help?
Generally this device is not meant for gain increase. You can get it to crank the output a little bit, but 90% of your volume should be provided by your amps. I would need to know more about the amplifiers and subwoofers you are using in order to properly give information on setup. Crossovers like these are really only meant to separate frequencies from your audio inputs.
Why Behringer don't include in their manuals the Total Harmonic Distortion(THD) data of their crossovers? I have bought the model CX-2310 and in the user manual I can't find this so important datum.
Hi there, Just wondering if I could pick your brains, as I’ve purchased one these and seem to have more volume on the one size than the other? I’ve got two power amps, one for the tops and one for the bass bins... Thanks
Hi, i use two subwoofers. Can i use 3 way mode? High, mid is not connected, only low ( bass ). And my second question, i must use stereo jack for my amplifier, or maybe only mono jack? Thx for help
Also wondering. In my four way I'm using the cx3400 in 2-way stereo to split subs (summed) from the remainder, which then goes to a Driverack PA2. The 25 Hz high-pass was a trigger, dbx xover has 40 Hz, too high for my subs.
I have both, behringer 3 way cross over with mono sub out. I use this in my smaller rig with active speakers. I also have a dbx pa2 drive rack compmete with wireless network, in my big rack thats 10,000 watts. That rack uses a rack mount pc as well, its an absolute monster. I can say between the 2 i can get them to sound very close. However the pa2 significantly more features and being able to tune a room walking around on an ipad is a game changer. The behringer 3 way i use with a 31 band eq and thats pretty much it. 1 rack weighs maybe 50lbs while the other weighs over 300 lbs.
I have one ..what an awesome piece of equipment I run my subs in mine coming from my Beringer vmx 1000 mixer using the subwoofer output on the vmx 1000 mixer .I never use my limiter and it has never clipped ...also using the sum button on the rear you add the benefit of using both Chanel's in the 4 way mono mode.. I am a bass head junkee/addict so that feature doubles the addiction ha ha lol.... caution.. warning...clicking the crossover frequencies with the volume turned up will result in a very loud pop.. please set your preferred mode of use with volume turned completely down... front adjustments no problem but activating modes from the rear with volume up could damage unit speakers and even your amp.me not knowing this before hand switched from 2/3 way to 4 way the pop was so loud that it clipped all 6 of my amps off ....so be careful.. glad I brought it a the vmx 1000 Beringer mixer ....3 years now not a problem with either thank you RU-vid thank you Behringer..thank you sir for the best explanation thus far on this awesome crossover.
How did you get the sublevel out to work? I've got two 18in Peavy subs in a box . It's the only reason I got this crossover was to use the sub output. But I'm still getting highs, mids, and vocals.
Thanks for you'r video man! sub+like Wondering if you can also help me with one guestion. When one is using passive sub and loudspeakers connected to same channel on amp. (channel1 > sub > sub topspeaker) Is it still possible to use crossover like this? Or will adding hi/mid also ad it to my sub?
