My 2024 FOH Mixer Settings 

I knew I was not the only one that puts my drums on the right 😊

Great video Chris. A suggestion for a future vid that will help tons of people and something that is missing on YT would be a video showing how to mix a pub/bar band that doesn't have instruments miked. Handy tips that cover controlling feedback and eq-ing vocals/basic fx so that they cut through the mix. I think this would be brilliant for all the smaller bands on the circuit who have to set up their own gear and who bring their own basic PA with them along with old, school analogue mixer. I know every PA and desk is different but I think a walk through would be brilliant. Just an idea. Keep sup the good work. Love your vids.

glad to be back cheking your content out...thanks for making these🗿❤❤❤❤❤❤ EDIT:i noticed now the 13k subs...congrats pal...ive been here before the 300 subs mark haha

Nice job, thanks

Super thorough. Thanks for sharing your settings and workflow with us, Chris. Keep up the great work!

Amazing video. Thanks for show us your settings and workflow. I like to watch a second part with mics settings, amps and PA tuning. Congratualtions!

I really got excited when you uploaded this video. Thank you for going though the desk. I know this may be a pain but would we be able to download maybe an x32 edit version so we can see closer up your workflow? No worries if not. Thanks Josh.

Probably the only live sound engineer that goes this far for even a local band showcase. You really know what you’re doing! Is it true that some engineers will only introduce any sub for only the headliner? Seems like a lot of the time that any opening bands will only have limited pa support. And the headliner will have the subs and full pa support

Fascinating. Not an audio engineer but a drummer/percussionist who’s starting to get interested in this world after a lifetime of acoustic background. Did you come in specially to film this or was this before bands arrived?

The X32 is still a 🐐in 2024 🔥🔥 Also, your vocal "first" mixing/soundcheck method is something another seasoned engineer taught me that just makes sense

Great stuff man. Anyone that gets their panties in a bunch over your workflow can go kick sand. And if its another engineer using the console, he can just put the work in and make his own scene from scratch. The last few times I used an M/X-32, I was using a setup where guitars were on 18 and 19, and vocals were on 20-24. I like having things I want to play with on the far right of the console. I like my left hand fingers so my pinky is the primary vocal and ring, middle and pinky are BVs. In dodgy rooms where feedback can zing ya even with a dialed, rung out PA, my hand is always there pushing and pulling the BVs as I need them to keep that extra bleed out of the mix. I also put anything I might need to bump up from time to time there as well, which is why guitars were at 18 and 19. I've run live sound on tons of different consoles, including tons of old, crappy analog consoles and even without all of the other amazing things a digital console like a M/X-32 provides, instant routing to anywhere is my favorite by far. I can do a gig without any effects, without useful EQ, without any compression available, but I start feeling stone age when I've got to yank a cable from somewhere and cram it in elsewhere!

Thanks for the video and the impressions. 🤘🏻 You don’t use noise gates on input channels? Any reason for that?

Great video man! What’s your recommendation for monitor size? I’ve seen a lot of people say 10”, 12”, or 15” for various reasons, in your experience, what works the best? Thank you!

I am def not as experienced as you but I lay out my inputs in a pretty similar way, most important first, drums at the end. Just the way I was taught. I’ve tried to change it to no avail.

Thank you for sharing this video! ❤ would you have a USB drive for the settings?

Thanks for a great channel, too bad for us that you live in the US, a bit far for you to help us. I live in Sweden. The church I'm in needs to replace the mixer soon. I've been thinking about the Behringer x32? I see many people you help use that mixer. What do you think about that? Or should we look at other brands?

Have you considered picking up some cymbal shields? Church world uses them a lot but it helps massively for a clean mix

Do you feed your record/broadcast feed with the Master bus that has all the EQ on it ?

Wow, you really do a lot of Compression. I do 1:3 at most. Base settings are around 1:1.5. Why do you use the GEQ on the Wedges and not the included Bus EQs?

Hi, really helpful video even in max quality i just couldn't get to see the delay parameters. I have started as assistant i got to use the same console if you could type in the both the parameters that would be really helpfull

Did you say how much makeup gain you are using on the vocal compressor?

Channel comp only? No more Leisure Comp on the vocals?

What is your dB limit to work with in that venue?

Do you ever work with Allen & Heath?

channel one….vocals….always

Not sure what the point is of listing all the settings. None of it matters in a different venue, with different musicians, playing different instruments. And 12dB of gain reduction on a vocal is ridiculous, unless the artist is a screamer.