Behringer X32 - How to send Reverb to a Monitor 

One problem to watch for with most reverbs is that they are mono in stereo out so you may need more reverb units than you think (this includes the built in effects as far as I can tell). In that case you will end up with singer A's reverb in singer B's monitor and vice versa. I have some Behringer V-Verb units that can run as 2 monos when you use the spdif input and output as one channel and the analoge I/O as the other channel. This also then brings the fact that the AUX I/O is balanced and most Spdiff converters are not. If anyone knows of a balanced I/O cheap mono or independant channel reverb unit please let me know.

@@TokkanFX Way too technical. Can you please break this down?

If the only thing going INTO the verb is vocals, you should not have verb on the guitars and drums going into the bus. If you're hearing verb on the guitars and drums, you have sent those channels TO the verb. At 1:35 in the video is where he sends the vocals to the verb. He "selects" bus 13, hits "Sends on fader", and raises the vocal mic fader. If ANY other faders get raised, they will go to the VERB. Make sure at this stage that ONLY vocal faders get raised! If by chance you have inserted the verb itself directly onto the bus that feeds the IEM, you will hear verb on everything. Drew did not do that. The verb was on bus 13 and the monitor was bus 1. Vocals got sent to bus 1 to get it to the monitor, and also bus 13 to get it to the verb. Then the Effects Return for the verb also got sent to bus 1 to get the verb to the monitor. Hope somehow this helped!✌

It should be exactly the same as this video, you just have to find the corresponding controls on the app. I use Mixing Station instead of the Behringer app, so I can't speak specifically, but if you poke at it you should be able to find Sends on Fader and all the busses easily enough.

I believe he is using the headphone out on the board, which defaults to the main LR out. If you solo a monitor, it will switch the headphone out to listen only to that monitor instead of the main LR. So when solo is on, you are hearing what the monitor would hear, and when it is off, you are hearing what the house would hear. This is just for demonstration purposes to show when/where the reverb is working.

Great question! If you kept it on Post Fader like it is default set to, you would be affecting the volume of the reverb being sent to the monitor while you are mixing front of house and adjusting the volume of the reverb up and down. Delay would be the same setup, just a different sound in the monitor!

@@DrewBrashler so if i get you, changing it to pre fader, breaks that link runs from the Fx return to any bus or output routed to? so my questions is, i personally mix fx during gigs with the bus 13 (i.e the original fx sends), meaning i keep the return at a constant level and control the level with the sends so would this still not affect the monitor send even if the fx return is set to pre?

i think you can assign it to a bus, and route the bus throught to the p16. i play most gigs that way, adding the BV's to a bus and routing it to the p16 in ine channel, same as my Main L-R sometimes. so i think assigning the fx to a bus would be helpful

Your mics are good enough for sure to get good sound. I learned something a while back that was a game changer for toms. Thing is you need to be able to see your toms on an RTA to really get it right. If you are using an x32 you got it made lol. Pull up the eq screen for your tom channel. leave the eq flat to start. Watch the screen while the drum is being struck. You are looking for the spot in the bottom end that rises the highest when the drum is struck. Go right for the middle of the biggest hump. Raise that frequency at least 6-to 8 dB with a medium Q. Not too narrow, but not really wide either. Yes things will get boomy and muddy at first!! So here's the magic.... whatever the frequency is that you raised, DOUBLE that frequency exactly, grab the next eq and drop that frequency by at least 8-10 dB with a very narrow Q. Then double the second frequency that you dropped 8-10 dB and do it again. So if your floor tom is ringing loudest at 70 htz, BOOST that, then go to 140 htz and DROP it, then go to 240 htz and drop that frequency too. Just double the number every time you add another eq. What's happening is you are removing the overtones at exact octaves from where the fundamental note is ringing. It is a game changer for sure! The only other thing to do is add some highs in to get however much click you want to add. If you can't SEE the tom on an RTA, this is nearly impossible to do lol. If you can see it, it takes 90 seconds. You may find you need a lot less gating and comp because you tightened up the drum itself. If you do use the gates on the x32, remember that they are frequency responsive! You can tell the gate to only listen to certain frequencies!! That way when your snare is cracking loud at 1kHz the gate ignores it because it's only listening to the 100htz range. Louder sounds out of that range the gate ignores no matter how loud they get. Friggen brilliant if you ask me! Sorry for the book lol. Cheers✌

@@66fitton Fun stuff, Thank You!!! I will def try that trick out next show, I can’t wait!🤘🏻

You can! You would just route from one of the Effects Returns to the P16 sends.

No. The main L/R bus stays post fader. He changed bus 1-4 to pre. He didn't change the effect at all. Cheers

No differences except missing channel strip LCDs and (obviously) less faders and less I/O on the back.

Run the outputs of the 828 to the inputs of the x32 and leave the x32 preamps at zero. Do all you gaining up with the 828. If you don't gain up on the x32 preamps, you are not using them.

I believe, that if it was left POST, that any change to the ffects fader (as you might mute it or lift or change it's level) will also change the amount of reverb in the monitor. Setting it as PRE lets you change the reverb in the House (MAIN OUT) without effecting the artists monitor. I generally leave it as POST, but my effects returns never change. If i need to pull out the reverb (like when a singer is speaking) i mute it at the efeects send level.

You would need to send the verb on its own channel to the P16, or use a mixbus to mix it before sending to the P16. I often use a mono mixbus as what I call a "Flex Bus" for mixing a stereo channel to a single channel for the P16's. But if a vocalist was also wanting reverb on their vocal with a P16, I would use this flex bus for them. Basically I would only send the Vocal + Verb to that mixbus, and then send that mixbus to the P16. Hope that helps!

@@DrewBrashler Thank you for your quick reply. I am not 100% sure how to do what you suggest but I will give it a try. We'll see how it goes. Maybe a topic for a video? 🙂

drew , i think , i could send my bus fx (for example bus 13 ) to one channel in to p16… it’s that correct ?

Pre stands for pre-fader, and the fader it’s referring to is the main channel fader going to the LR mix. The buss that’s sending signal to the monitor is pre-fader, so that the monitor mix is independent of the LR house mix. If you sent the signal to the FX post-fader, the amount of reverb going into the monitor mix would change depending on the position of the main channel fader, LR main fader, and the mix in the house. Putting the FX pre-fader will feed them parallel to the Monitor buss, which is also pre-fader.

The solo button was just used to show that reverb was going to the monitor send. Follow the same steps in the video and you will be good! Hope that helps!

just a suggestion as we wait for Mr Drew, you mean you want your usb to take 6 outputs at a time? or just 2

I can't figure out what you're asking? ...The question is as follows. What do I need to do on my computer to make the sound come from USB so that I can in the video program OBS (for example) and capture sound from MixBus? You said you send out bus 1 and 2 to computer for recording. Are you asking how to get those sounds from the computer back to the board? Or are you asking how to record all six bus' instead of just the two? Or are you asking how to get the signal from bus 1 and 2 to record in a separate video program? I will be here if you clarify! Cheers

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​@@DrewBrashler Does this work for a Sennheiser style mic? If not, what would you recommend Sennheiser Ew 100 G4 setup

Not yet I'll make sure to add that to the list!

In his house mix, the Effects 1 return faders are all the way down, so none of that effect is going into the house. If you watch when he turns the monitor solo off, you'll notice those faders drop. If you pushed that up when not solo'd you would also have the reverb in the house.

He presses the SOLO button so he can hear the monitor mix locally. He turns it back off to hear the main mix. So he is using the SOLO button to switch between the two.

I would take a look at your FX returns and see if they are un muted. Additionally, make sure that none of your effects are inserted on the LR bus by looking at your Effects page. Hope this helps!

Oh no, thanks for the feedback!