Thanks, Drew. I scoured Midas (because I'm researching the M18) and other RU-vid videos; this is the BEST overview I've seen. Your knowledge of Behringer and Midas gear is second to none!
Excellent source of information for folks just unboxing this baby. I was starting to think I ordered the wrong piece of equipment when I didn't see any outs but after watching I now know I need to use the USB now. Thanks Drew, I found this really helpful.
Looking forward to better understood XR18 tutorials, you're very good at covering it from basic. Setting gain structure with the XR18 would be a great topic too. 👍
Drew thank you for the awesome introduction. I got my X air about a year ago and still have questions about this rig. I appreciate all the great content you provide and looking forward to the full breakdown videos using a DAW.
The biggest reason to use a stand-alone router is that the XR18 does not automatically change channels. So if someone is on the Behringer channel you set up (as the wifi network host) it is a pain to change. Reason being, once you set it up you can forget how to change the dedicated channel since you (preferably) do it as a set-and-forget, not to mention you need to use the unit without interruption. The external router changes channels when it detects interference.
year its 17 inputs those TRS sockets channels 17/18 can't be split from a single stereo channel. The X-edit software sees the 17/18 on the XR18 the same way as the tape deck return on the X18. You also can't split the gain and channel strip processing (EQ, Gate & Compressor) on 17/18.
Absolutely use a dedicated wifi router or hard-wire for events. I used this for an event with 6 presenters and about 300 attendees. Everything worked perfectly until the doors opened, then once everyone came in I was completely unable to connect to the mixer. One mic chanel was open, so I ended up having to swap cables for each presenter. Thankfully the client never knew what happened, and I was able to manipulate the levels with the controls on my Shire UHF-R receivers. The event went off without a hitch due to careful setup before everyone came in, but I was unable to control the mixer until everyone left the room again. Now I will not use it professionally again without having it hard wired and the internal wifi switched off.
Having very little live show experience myself I cannot imagine the panic I would feel in that situation. You’re a real expert in my book if your equipment fails and no one knows except you.
@@AlcaHolicGamer Had 15 channels set ready for church service for Christmas Eve and 10 minutes before the start of the service the ipad and the mixer quit communicating. had to scramble to connect Y and Tri cables to the microphones and shove everything through the 4 inputs to the old (but not disconnected) house amp that is 24 years old. No sound check. Just flying by the seat of the pants and adjusting as the service moved along. Wireless never again. Laptop over Ethernet cable only from now on. After the service and everyone left, the ipad and the mixer would connect again.
Good job Andin. Deal with the problem so nobody else notices it. That is the spirit. As a sound engineer of live events for 20 years, I had my share of these. The motto always remains: do not do it wireless if you can do it with a wire. If you have to do it wireless, be sure to have plenty of backup possibilities. Today sound setups are almost always with the "mixer" on stage and the "remote control" in your front of house arrea. I ALWAYS run an Ethernet cable. Never count on WiFi in crowded places. You learned the hard way as I did also :)
I wish we could get this guy to go explain some things to the president because he is as clear as can be. Clear and detailed. (The instructor, not the pres.)
Great job on this video, clearly explaining the unit, at the end of the video, you mention that you were going to publish additional videos on this mixer! Have those been posted/released yet, I just bought this unit and I’m a little/lot lost! Thanks
Hi Drew, Thank for taking time to help Us with the videos, my question is: if I use the USB port as an input for Waves, this means I lose the option to record the Multitracks ? if so, Berhinger would have left us at least one way to record the Stereo with a USB drive port.
Hey Rojano! Yes there is definetley a way to do this via the "In/Out" page on the X Air Edit software. Please submit a ticket with us by sending an email to support@zavasound.com! Or by going onto our website, zavasound.com, and clicking support. We hope to see you soon!
Hey Drew i dig how fluent u are in ur explanation ... i have the xr18 and i am trying to get it to work with pro tools via usb ... but it loads drivers and still gives me the yellow triangle with exclamation mark in control panel... could u email me a detailed explananation about installing this beast on windows 7 ultimate 64 bit... do i need hot fixes and a specific configuration ... Hope to hear from u soon ....Kind Regards from Capetown South Africa
In order to use a DAW on my laptop with the XR 18, do I connect both the cat 5 cable and the USB? Im using Tracktion, and it recognizes the 18 with cat 5, but can't figure out how to connect it with USB
drew I am having a challenge sending out from my system back to the x32. how to I solve this?? note the multitrack input is working well but how do I route the multitrack back to x32??
For Drew or anyone who may know, he mentions using Waves Multirack to use external VST effects. Do you have to use one of those "live specific" programs that cost an extra $150+ or would the DAW I already have installed work the same way with the VST plug ins. Would I run into latency issues or anything like that?
Hey man! I believe there is a way to do this in Logic Pro X. However it can produce some latency because of your computers DSP power. Feel free to send us an email at support@zavasound.com so we can figure this out together! Or by going to our website at, zavasound.com, and clicking, "Support." We hope to hear from you soon!
Waves Rack is its own, stand-alone shell program that runs Waves pugins in "live," low-latency mode. Trying to run Waves plugins for a live setting in a VST host like Reaper, etc, will introduce latency issues that could become a huge problem for your sound. The audio from the live mixer will reach the speakers well before the audio from the DAW, and, depending on the effects you're trying to use, this can cause problems like phase-cancellation, comb filtering, or, if the latency is really bad, echoing.
if the first 2 channels are hi z, and you can plug your guitar without a di, can you still plug instruments direct in 3 - 18 channels. thank you. and i subscribed
We are buying this for our church in a few weeks. These videos are amazing! Thank you for posting such incredible content and for being a clear communicator.
Always liked your Behringer X32 and other x device videos. Great job on the thorough detail of this device. Already have the x32 and looking to add this on.
Thanks so much for such a thorough explanation. I agree with all of the fellow viewers. Your fast pace explanation and knowing when to choose not to go into detail was salient. Great Video indeed. I'll be back again and again :-).
Can the Mixer X32 be connected to the Digital X AIR 16 Mixer? I mean, can all the X32 audio channels go to the Digital Mixer Air then in the Air Digital mixer will need to connect to the laptop to set the Reverb etc., then channel it to Live Streaming So I don't want this Digital Air 16 Mixer to only accept MAin Output from X32
I have a question. When on the bus/FX send fader page on the android app for each channel I have my bus routing set for pre EQ and FX set post fader. When scrolling through the channels using the left right arrows at the top of the page you eventually get to the last channel then it shows the same page with faders for all six busses and 4 FX sends but in the upper left corner it says return 1 then you can advance through the next three pages and they respectively say return 2, 3 & 4. My question is should I set the routing point for those to the same as I set my channels. PreEQ on 1-6 and Post fader on FX 1-4. This is really the only thing I've encountered in setup that I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. Thanks.
Hey Drew, thanks for those videos. quite enlighting! I'm thinking bout getting the midas mr18 which obviously is pretty much the same thing. Do you by any chance know if it's possible to connect a fader wing to your via ethernet connected laptop to have some sort of faders for the mr18? Thanks for your help! Till
How do you SIMPLY send the XR18's FX and EQ to a DAW along WITH the dry signal for each track? Our XR18's mix sounds perfect LIVE, and that's exactly what I want the computer to record! I DON'T want to add FX and EX to the tracks in the DAW later!
where can I find all the XR18 videos that you promised would be coming over the next few weeks, it's been almost 2 years. The intro was great and just bought the mixer and was looking forward to seeing more
the comment about the wifi not getting out of the metal box sounded strange to me as the antenna of the wifi card is on the outside of the box. That said, the wifi from behringer is not that reliable so use an external multiband wifi anyway. Or better, in case of real live and crowd coming in, keep it ethernet wired. You never know what will happen when 200 people with mobile phones stand between you and your mixer :)
Unfortunately mine no longer sends external sound and NO ONE works on Behringer because they say Behringer doesn’t provide parts. So I do NOT recommend these mixers
Drew Brashler good to know, you are really good at explaining this stuff.I bought an xr18 2 weeks ago and I'd love to get an in depth tutorial that explains gates and compression and the different uses of the filters and gate modes
For real brah, great info hover, absolutely lacking on tutorials...check out sweetwater review, completely different info. I'd love to hear what you could add Drew on the actual workings inside. Respectfully, NG
Am considering this mixer, and really appreciate the concise and articulate overview, very thorough.This was an excellent presentation, glad to subscribe.
At the start of the video, it's like....'woah, that is crisp audio!' - 'oh yeah, it's an audio channel, d'oh!' Sounds lovely. The Hi-Z offer no value to us, and we're an acoustic band. Funny it is stated time and again that it's for acoustic instruments. I feel that I haven't yet met the people who would dream of going into the mixer directly as an acoustic guitar while simultaneously playing in a band that needs 16 inputs. What do you do, have all your wonderful toys back at the mixer's effect loop, fiddling pre/post into the chain for every single pedal? I mean, sure, it COULD be done. Play without anything, no comp, no sparkly, no delay? Can't go without reverb, so again: Feed it into the loop? Use the mixer's effects? All of these sound like insanity. At the same time, any pedal board and any multiFX worth its salt ever, in fact any player worth its salt ever outputs the end product as balanced XLR. Why go through all the hassle then to solve a problem that doesn't exist? Somehow it seems a solution to a problem that has been solved individually by the guitar player years before he'll ever use an 18 input mixer to play live. Ah well, must be for the studio folk and their plugins or something. Shrug.
What a fuck are you talking about! My router dont have 2 antennas, it dont have one antenna, it have no antenna at all!! You talk like you live in every home. Great material. It was well detailed from the start to the finish. I loved it.
Hello, can I connect the Behringer p16D and the p16M to a Yamaha TF3 digital mixer with a DANTE card in the back and a Yamaha Tio1608D stage box, can I do this in the following order: Yamaha TF3, Dante Card, Cat5e, Yamaha Tio1608D stage box, BEHRINGER P16D and P16M. Can I do this?. Thanks
Loved all your videos on the X/M32 console platforms! Thanks for making a great video on this smaller console. I have a few of these in my inventory and use them often on small gigs... Or send them out as camp systems for worship bands. Keep it up Drew!
Thanks for pointing out the issues with the built in WiFi access point. I (and others) confirm that issue. Just using an external access point does wonders for range and reliability.
Good run through of the XAir, Drew. I've been using this unit for nearly two years and always speak very highly of it. I have installed the XAir into several churches and they all simply love it as well. Even when am on the road doing events guest engineers find it very easy to navigate and produce flawless shows. I look forward to your upcoming videos on the XAir. PS ... True I have always ran mine with an external router and have never had a problem even in very high demand areas like at concerts with hundreds of cell phones looking for a connection.
Mr Keebler, I hope you can still check the comments. I'm looking at purchasing this mixer for our youth group space. I was hoping you can share a tip or two of must haves when I set up the space. It's a brand new space that's currently in the building process, so I'm starting with a clean slate as far as set up goes. Thanks for any assistance you can provide, if you ever see this :D
I also use an external router. Is it possible to hook 2 of these xr18 to a single router and assign them each a different pass code so I have 32 xlr inputs. Also using 2 tablets. then combine the outputs into a external passive crossover. Can anyone answer this.
2 years later, but yes it should work in theory. The XR18s should be able to automatically take a different IP address, and therefore be able to be controlled by 2 tablets on the same Wifi network. By 'passive crossover' I guess you mean another mixer? As crossovers are usually used for splitting a signal for high frequency/low frequency speakers. You could also just put the outputs of one of the XR18 into the inputs of other XR18, but this would reduce your useable channel count. Hope that helps!
have a question, which is better? the Xair or the behringer x32 digital console ? im undecided which to get ..i really like the size of the XAir and portability
When you say Stage Box is a stage box something that is on stage with all mice plugged that provides a separate mix for monitora/in ears and then can send a fixable signal to FOH?
You might have issues downloading the software unless you are able to get to an internet connection. But once you have the software installed there is no internet connection required to use the XAir.
When open the application,it exits.The same problem is shown when connecting to the mixer and when using demo.There is no problem if the application is open and using fader,the problem is only when we go to EQ section or the DYNAMICS and BUS sending section and edit it.Can some one help ME....please
Drew, I bought a XR18 and a X-Touch Compact, and I can't get them to work together correctly. It seems like nothing is mapped correctly. The first fader moves track 2, and the subsequent faders move subsequent tracks. Changing banks doesn't control the next set of tracks, and the mains fader moves the next track, not the mains in the mixer. Nothing else works. Can you tell me if these units are not compatible or if I'm doing something wrong? Thanks!
Lucky me. I found out that in a busy casino, hardwired to the mixer, I still had RF interference. Switched to STP cable next time in, and had no problems. The Cat 5e UTP cable I was using was only 25 feet long. I purchased a 25 foot STP Cat 5e to replace it.
Does anyone know if you load the presets into the Xair18 if you need them on your computer anymore? I would like to buy drews presets to help me with my church's xair config but we have 3 different sound teams and Im wondering if you need a copy of the presets file anytime you want to use the xair, or if, once I purchase the presets once, do they get loaded into the xair and I dont need the files anymore. To state my question another way, I have 3 sound teams, does each sound team need their own copy of the presets or can I buy it once and load it into my xair18? thanks!
@Drew Brashler, I purchased the preset bundle from your website but I'm unable to load the presets into xair edit. please advise (I have the XR18) thank you.
This is a fantastic mixer and I own one my self and love it. Be careful if you are trying to use it in a club situation and use the cat5 hook-up . The internal router is just not up to par and will drop out a lot ....be aware ....
