Behringer X Air XR16 Digital Mixer: A Beginners Guide to How to Set up a Simple PA From Scratch

hi guys welcome to the channel in this video i'll be going over the behringer xr16 digital mixer which is one of three x air digital mixers there's an xr12 xr16 and an xr18 and if you have any one of these three this video is for you this video is also designed for the absolute beginner if you're skilled and already know how to work this there's no reason you're not going to learn anything new here i'm just going through the basics and my mission here is to help a newbie get this thing out of the box hook it up to the internet hook it up to the computer download the software and get the thing up and running to the point you can run a small pa system all right also if you look down below i have a table of contents so if you already have figured out and downloaded the software and have that working but got lost in the complex software this software is not easy the learning curve is steep and it's easy to forget this stuff as well so if you want to jump ahead feel free to do so all right here we go okay so in this part i'm just going to go over the black box here which you got from santa claus or you open this up or whatever and the first thing you notice is there's no sliders where's the sliders where's the little knobs to adjust the eq where's the mute buttons that is all virtual that's going to be on your ipad on your laptop on your desktop so you have to download software but that's kind of the beauty of this i mean there's not wire sticking all over the place and it's a really small form factor you can put this in a rack there's there's mounts for this so you can put it in your rack and yeah so let's go over the hardware part in this video so we have eight xlr inputs which all have the ability to turn on or off phantom power so that's very cool you can also use a quarter inch jack if you if you have to it's trs and um yeah so those are the inputs on the software it just it says exactly this it says one two three four right above the sliders and i'll show you that when we uh when we come to that okay so pretty straightforward there the down here we have eight more inputs but these are quarter inch only they are trs but i mean you could stick mono in there as well and the last 15 and 16 are high z which means you can put a electric guitar right into that you can plug a base into that you can plug a keyboard directly into that those are specially designed for plugging straight in okay for the outputs this is the output section down here we of course have a left and right main so i have two uh the two cables going right to my pa speakers all right i'll show you picture those in a second and then we have this is where it gets a little confusing we have these aux sends or these aux outputs so these are where you traditionally hook up your monitors if you have a band you'll have two three maybe four monitors well this is where you hook that up the signal for example the signal from my mic which is a by the way a sure sm58 going in here it goes into the black box it goes into your computer and it comes back to the black box and it comes out of here and goes to a monitor it also comes out of here that's why these are called outputs it's also a headphone jack here if you have the xr18 you'll actually have i believe six of these if you have the xr14 you only have two of these the confusing thing when we get to the software is these aux these auxes there are no aux manipulations there's no aux buttons so that makes it confusing on the software they call them buses bus buses so we'll see bus one bus two bus three and bus four all right so keep that in mind write that down that's something you have to memorize or you'll be lost all right so that's the simple setup here let me show you some pictures of what how this my setup looks here okay so here's my setup for right now so here's my shure sm58 that is going right in to the input number one as i showed you on the black box on the hardware portion of the mixer now right now this is this is not working so how am i even talking to you well i have a silver yeti set up and this is going through right into my laptop and i'm using camtasia to record this video so when i turn this on and off you can still hear me talking this has nothing to do this is not hooked up to the to the mixer at all this is just directly into my computer so i can talk to you right now right and let me show you another picture all right so here i have uh i threw a monitor on an old end table over to the left of me and that's my monitor remember that's coming out of the aux 1 jack okay so that's what that looks like and we have one more show you my pa too okay so here's my two my left and right mains i actually have this one turned off because this is a little a little 10 by 10 room so i it feedback is problems in here so i turned this off but they're still hooked up this one's going right here all right so that's kind of what the setup is we have a little bit more work to do though let me pull this back up all right so the only other thing we need to talk about is this stuff so we have a usb port here where you can stick a flash drive in and you can play music this they need to work on this it doesn't play mp3s and it doesn't play some m wave files it only plays wave files that have a sample rate of 44.1 and a bit rate of 16 bits if it's not that it won't work and i've had a lot of trouble with this since i put the new firmware version 1.17 in i can't even get this to work at all right now so they need to look at that if anybody from behringer is watching this this there's a definite problem here here's a midi in and midi out if you want to connect to a daw or something i'm not going to touch that subject but this we need to talk about because this thing's not going to do anything you can't hook up anything until you hook it up to your laptop and to your software and how do you do that you do that through this right here so this has a built-in router within it and at first you want to take this three-way switch and you want to flip it all the way to the right so this is your first your first job if you're just taken out of the box and getting set up pull this all the way over to the right under access point so this is going to broadcast a signal just like an access point is and therefore you can look in your wi-fi network on your computer or on your phone or on your ipad and you can find this xr16 access point and connect to it and that's how you connect your laptop or your ipad there's no you can't use your iphone yet they don't have an app for that but you can connect your your laptop your desktop or your ipad directly to this but you have to put the access point on first i'll talk about the wi-fi client you can't use that you have to use the access point first and then you can set that up later okay got it so flip the switch all the way to the right and then later on you could hardwire this via this ethernet port but that's still not going to do us any good we have to go to the access point first and just a little as always studying and getting myself back up to speed on this some people were very angry about this access point a medium maybe a small little gig in a coffee shop or something would this is fine but if you get anywhere where there's more people the channels get filled up and they've lost connectivity because of this so they recommend using the wi-fi client where you could tap into the coffee shops router and go that way or there's an option to put a cat5 cable and you can buy your own router like a netgear router and run that way and that way you won't have to worry about interference okay but again for now for newbies flip this all the way to the right all right and that's all i wanted to say and there is an antenna make sure you s you put the antenna straight up if you put the antenna and don't pull it out of there it's not going to work very good either so 10 has got to be straight up all right so that ends this portion we're going to go on to installing the software next okay welcome back so let's install the software and so fire up your whatever browser you want i'm using google chrome here go to www.baringer.com i already already made a link to it but there it is behringer some people call it behringer berringer tomatoes tomatoes and once you're here very simple go to downloads all right look under products scroll down look for the xr16 it's in alphabetical order there's other xrx products so aha there it is there's the xr16 so click on that okay and now down below here these are all the software and firmware and stuff available for this so i'm running pc so i'm going to download this if you're running mac download this if you're running linux if you're going to do this on an ipad run it right run download this one also note the firmware version don't get tricked i downloaded that even though it says software that's not software that's documentation that's just notes if you want to find the the firmware go to page two i'll show you where that is and there is the firmware update right there one point i did have some trouble with this though with that regard so i maybe not wouldn't run this just yet and leave your old software in there anyway i digress let's go back to the pc hex air edit it's called exterior pc click the download button yes i agree and let's download that to my desktop make a folder x air 16 and download it alrighty awesome now let's close this out go to my desktop there it is open it up and it's packaged as a zip so you have to have winzip installed or winrar and let's extract it here and there's the app right there so to make a shortcut on your desktop right click drag let go and make create shortcut got it okay awesome let's run it and see what it looks like hey hey there it is there is our mixing software that looks more familiar right we got and we'll go over this in the next section uh but yeah we got some sliders here great uh you can resize it i'll go over this the next one though but let me just see usually medium works good but we'll go over that in the next one but there it is but if you look up here in the top corner here the right the left top corner it's not connected so it's not going to do us any good yet but at least we have the software ready to roll so now we need to connect our laptop to the black box to the hardware part of the mixer okay remember we remember we set it let's let me show you again remember we set this access point we pulled it all the way to the right so this thing is broadcasting now airwaves so we should be able to see that in our network so this is windows actually i'm running windows 10 here on this computer if you go down here to your network there's my and left click on that one time it'll bring up the available networks and there's my i'm running there's the network i'm on right now but that's not going to help us so we need to look for that xr16 and there it is see it xr16 d7 blah blah blah so click on that we don't want to automatically connect i don't think but and then left click connect and it'll it'll kick us off our regular wi-fi network there i don't believe that i have well that's interesting because i haven't set this up yet so i don't know why it's asking for a key two three four five okay and let's see this is a little different than before on windows 7 i didn't have this to go through this just click yes the default options when you run this well maybe you do have no because you're pulling this out of the box so you won't have a password to deal with so i've been using this before and i know my password is just silly one two three four five okay so i'll speed through this okay great so there we are we are connected just to double check go back down here we're connected but there's no internet access but that should be okay because we're this is not an internet device we're connecting it's to that little we're just connecting to the black box so let's go try it now so let's launch our x air again okay go to the medium setting which it didn't remember all right so let's go back up in the left corner not connected but don't fear because there's there's two parts to this setup there's really three parts you have to download the software you have to connect to the access point with your computer or with your ipad and now we have to connect the software so how do we connect the software we need to go over here to setup right here setup left click on that and this is a good sign so go look under select mixer from list if you don't have anything in here you're not connected right you're not connected to the black box so click on that and then just click connect and if you've if you've already set something up and you have a setup on your on your hardware component on the black box you can click mixer to pc synchronization i don't know why that's not showing up but it should say synchronous uh so but you if you're doing this for the first time you will have nothing there so that's what i'm gonna assume there's nothing there all right uh so yeah so we hit connected and we're connected how do i know we're connected well if we go back up to the corner look at that there's the xr16 and we are connected and ready to roll all right let me in this section i'll also show you around this since this is kind of internet stuff so let's go let's look at some other options here so if we go to the access point this is where we can set up a key has to be five digits long a simple key i just made by one two three four five you don't have to have it but it's recommended if you go to a gig you don't have anything on there somebody who's bored they could actually tap into this and if they know how to work things they could start manipulating your set your settings if they downloaded the software so good to put a simple key on there so this is what i did and this is how i use it i have this so it connects right to my router that way if i launch the software it's there and ready to go i don't have to go through these setup steps it's really easy to set up there's a lot of videos on how to do this i'll just say this really quickly so i'm running a night gear net hawk you need to go open up your router and figure out what the ssid setting is that's basically just the name of your network snetgear76 and then the key is just your password so the key is password that's all you need you just need those two things you also need to know what security what type of security your network runs most of them run wpa2 and then click dhcpa or dhcp so make sure to make this a dhcp server and that's it so four buttons click that put your network name put your password click dhcp click apply and you're done i already did this so i'm not going to do it again and that way your black box when you turn it power on it will automatically connect to your wi-fi network it will connect to your router and that way when you're ready to run the software you don't have to connect to an access point you just it's there it's ready for you to go it's much easier it's probably way more secure as well there's a lan setting i don't know much about what to do with these things here i'd never monkey with them but i'll just show them there and there's goo you can mess with the gui here but yeah be underscope okay so that's the end of the internet setup portion so now the next part the next segment of the video we will meet the software mixer itself okay now we have our x air connected to the hardware component of the mixer let's meet the software component of the mixer and so this is looks a little more familiar than than the hardware component right so it's basically broken down into four sections so we have these sliders our comb sliders they're faders there's another ak for these we have the fader area and this corresponds with the inputs right there's input one input two input three input four etc and remember where those inputs came from okay so here's the inputs again look there's one two three four five and remember this had eight xlr ends and it had eight quarter inch ends right so we talked about that so that's the input section and we also have the output section i guess you could call right this area right here because here's the main left and right out and here's the buses the four buses remember we said buses what was the ak for buses aux right these are aux 1 aux 2x3 so this is the output region we also have well let's go look at that quick before i jump over there okay so here's the output section so there's the aux 1 2 3 and 4 and there's the main left and right out headphones we don't worry about those um but yeah so those are the main that's the main deal with this let's head back to this all right um so input output right next to it now we have all the effects are up here on this top channel so we have a gate that we can assign to each channel an eq that we can assign to each channel compressor that we can assign to each channel there's sends i'm not going to worry about this we're not going to worry about this the effects we are going to worry about in the meter we're not going to worry about in this video the mixer this is kind of home base for me if i say go to home base i mean the mixer area here this is the home base of the output areas right here the mains and to show you these these outputs again we have the mains also when you click on main left and right make sure that left and right pops up over here because this is the main fader that controls the left and right now if i go to aux 1 send go into our monitor and click on that see the bus changes bus one is here bus two remember ak for aux and now this controls the main flow going out to the monitor here same here bus two see how that changes bus three bus four etc all right so let's go back to home base i'll go back to the mains and let's see here i guess we can pull these back down so remember these were the inputs again and now the hard part are these effects i showed you the effects up here but the confusing thing i think the most confusing thing about this mixer is the fact that we have so many ways to do the same thing and it makes it really confusing for the newbie we have effects here we also have effect effects down here on the on the outputs so we can ascend these effects basically we're going to use these blue effects we're going to send these effects to the inputs so our mic which i'll show you we're going to at right after this i'll show you how to get this mic channel set up but we can send effects like we can ascend effects one by clicking on the effects here making sure we have some signal here and then just raising the effect we want to hear in input 1. input 8 wants some of that effect we can put it here input 66 wants it we can put it here um so those are effects sends as well so that kind of corresponds with the whole theme of this section the output section okay um when we're using the bus though okay so this is the output of the bus again we can we can decide what goes into the bus we can put this sig this channel one which is the only thing we have going our main mic we can put that into the bus send the difference is where do the effects what if you want effects in your monitor mix or going out of the bus or the aux send if these green effects go to the bus so if i want effect one going to the bus i pull it up if i want effect 3 i pull it up here and i'll demonstrate all this in a minute this is just kind of a quick summary of how everything works so i remember the aux right here that these green effects are right next to the aux so these are going to be saved for the for the aux sends which are going usually to the monitors right um so that's pretty much an overview let me go back to home base i like the mains as home base we've got some unity gain here i could show you this mute group is really easy let's say we have a drum kit going here and i don't have it hooked up but we could hook one up so we have the bass drum the snare the symbol toms are up if we want to mute all these at the same time we can make a mute group by clicking this little box here on the right for all of these and let's say mute group 2 is over here so if i hit group mute group 1 we can mute everything that is selected in box 1. if i hit mute two then the mute two group goes so that's pretty cool little feature basic standard stuff all right so the only thing i didn't talk about is this upper area here so we've already talked about the setup of this remember how to connect connect make sure you are on connect make sure that's blue make sure your mixer the xr16 is in this area click on that to make it blue and then click connect i'm not going to do it because i'm already connected we can also initialize which will wipe the mixer clean except for the network settings it doesn't mess with those but you can wipe the mixer clean by hitting initialize i won't do that because well i can do that sure i'll do that it takes a little time for it to do it but see how it wipes it wipes it right back to zero for the next person to come in so that is the story there and let me just close that out or i can't i'm gonna have to wait for this i'll cut this out all right so that's enough about uh setup and let's see what else yeah we went through these right i think i went through those so i won't go through those again resize we talked about that a good one here is this window height seems to work well for me but there's a medium setting which works better for adele that i have but this seems to make it if you go window height it'll set it the best for my screen anyway this is an important concept the save button so let's say we worked really hard and we set up our band and then we have a group coming in behind us and the club owner says hey you need to wipe that mixer out this is the club's software we'll pretend so we just wiped it out before you wipe it out you can save the setup as a scene and then create a folder for it i did it one here before but we can just go 12 25 20. and it saves that and if you come back the next day you just hit load load the scene and i won't do it because it takes time but you just do that click open and it loads the exact same settings it works flawlessly so that's an important deal here you can copy and paste i haven't played with those i'm not sure what that's about you can take a snapshot of the kind of your screenshot here i haven't played with that too much the recorder i've been disappointed with that the record function works fairly well so if i hit the record button it will record your band so that's pretty cool and then you stop it and then it pops up in here see it just popped up here you can play that back through the mains or whatever you want to do that's great behringer has a big problem with the play function if you want to play music between your breaks i'm having a terrible time with that it says that it has to be it won't play mp3s which is ridiculous behringer you need to fix that and then the waveforms are incredibly finicky it has to be 44.1 kilohertz 16 bit which is standard but it won't some waves it won't play this is a this is a boston song and it is 44.1 kilobits or the kilohertz and 16 kilobits and it won't play and so i've had trouble with that and i'm not sure what the deal is with that but it's very finicky so i'm not happy with that that's all i'll say about that uh the dca groups you can that's kind of beyond the scope of this video you can google that or look on youtube and there's some some videos on that the auto mix i'm not familiar with that as well but there you go that's pretty much an overview and now let me give you one more little overview again let's go back to these effects because these are so confusing this is what's going to drive you crazy so a review we have effects up here we have effects down here in blue and we have effects in green these are all effects sends we can in send them or insert them into our channels either the main mix or the monitor mix remember i said that the blue effects here those are going to be saved for inserting into the channels and the green effects are going to be saved for inserting into the monitor or the bus mixes right so green for the bus and the blue are for the the channel inputs which are going to be going out into the mains here this is interesting so if you go up here in the top and click effects you can see the all the effects and there is a lot of effects the special thing about this is that you can click type and you can select any effect that you want here's a gated reverb let's pull that up we have a hall reverb we don't need two reverbs let's get to that get rid of that and they have tons of reverb but let's put this sub activer in here don't even know what that is but so this is the place where you can change the effects okay if you want a different effect this is where you change them so that's all you should remember this for there is a way to insert or send these effects as well by clicking on the insert clicking here and i can send it to channel one i can send it to channel two but that's it you can't send it and you have to click this as well you can't send it anywhere else and it gets confusing so don't use this if we want to ascend effects to the channels let's go back in the channel the main here we're going to use these blue buttons okay if i want to send effect 1 i'm not limited to just two effects i can send if you have every single one of these filled up with instruments and drums i can send this effect this reverb effect to every single channel okay so that's that's the way that you should remember that that top button again is only going to be used to select the type of of effect that you want the blue are for again the blue are for the inputs and then for the buses we use the green and those are going to be going to the monitors so the green are for the buses got it okay so that is a pretty good rundown of the software and now in the next section let's actually set up a channel for real okay now that we've met the software mixer of the xr16 let's actually set up a channel and this is why some of you probably have have tuned in now remember my setup let me if you because so maybe some of you just popped up here and didn't watch the rest of the video so remember my setup i have my sm58 coming into channel one i have aux one sending a signal out uh to a jbl monitor over to my left i have the main left and right go into my main left and right and that's pretty much all you need to know and again remember aux is an aka for bus for about the 20th time i've said that all right so let's set up we really only have one channel to set up right because this is this is the mic coming in this is the main mic uh so let's set it up so to set it up number one we have to click on it so remember we learned how to do that click on number one to highlight the channel and now all the effects everything i do as long as that's highlighted will apply and stick on this channel and i could set this up with headphones or we could look at the levels but let's let's do two steps here let's not only set up this channel but let's send it into the main left and right as i set it up so we can actually hear the reverb and the delay and things like that so go to the mains main left and right make sure it's left and right here and bring this up that's the master left that's the master left and right out okay great so now we should be able to hear things as we set things up so first job is of course we need a signal in here so get that up to zero unity gain let me pull up this a little closer to my mouth and if you look you can see a little tiny bit of signal coming in to channel one but it's not enough to even register on the mains you can see the mains making a tiny bit but that's enough not enough to hear so we need to bring up the gain step one write this down if you're taking notes step one step one is to select the channel you're working on step two is to set the gain okay there's three ways there's four ways to set the gain which make this which makes this confusing but i want you to go we're working with inputs i want you to go to input to set it and here's where you set it so let's pull it up and let's get something happening here all right so now we can hear some we can hear right we can hear the signal going out the mains and we can see the signal is much higher now i have to be careful too this is a little tiny maybe a 10 by 10 room and it can get a little feedback in here we can also if this is a diaphragm mic we can hit phantom power to power that this is dynamic so we don't need to do that we can also play with polarity which is pretty cool look how it takes that feedback away so this is a good place to play with the polarity yeah okay so we got some gain come we got some sound coming out of the mains that's awesome now just i almost hesitate to do this but before i do that check out the one up here that just confirms that we are on channel one that's just a double way to confirm that we are adding input here but let's say you don't let's say you don't like that way you can also go to channel which i don't like this is confusing but you can also set the gain right here as well i'll bring it up this way okay so we can set the gain here um let me stay focused here there's another way to set the gain if we go back to home base the mixer i can actually type in the gain forget where we were weren't we like 25 or something like that and there we have some gain there or i can actually drag it can left click and hold it i can drag it up here so that's four different ways to set the gain i don't know if that's a good thing or not but it sure is confusing to the to the newbie i think so that's why i say inputs go to inputs to set this up one word about this channel thing maybe some people like this i don't know because it gives you an overall snapshot of what is on but it's really confusing for example we can turn the noise gate on here but and then we can't really tweak it very much what's the point of that because the noise gate is right here if we're going to set up the noise gate let's go and set up the noise gate with all its controls same thing with eq if we go to channel oh look here's the eq we can't do anything to it we can set the low cut to it we can turn it on or turn it off but what's the point eq is right above it if you want to eq it go to the darn eq and eq away all right so just my my little i don't know just i don't think they needed to do this but maybe i mean people have been using this a long time it's gives you a nice snapshot of what's going on what buses are going on i don't know for the newbie it's a mess so leave it alone all right so we did input stereo link i'm not going to mess with if you click on that it'll link channel one and two together so you can have a stereo sound you pan one left pane one right i've had some problems with that demonstrating and trying to go back to making it unstereo and then i had to mess around with the main so i'm just going to leave that off for now all right let's go check out the gate for real so the other thing you have to watch out for if you put it on the gate here it's not going to do anything until you double click the gear set the gate here so you have to click the gate here and click the gate here and now the gate is on but it's still not really i guess it is working but it's not set the attack and everything's not set so i've learned a quick way to set up for vocals it works pretty good is to hit vocal button click ok and now it's set up for gain or got a little more attack and hold on there and you can tell when i stop talking it deadens things okay so that's i don't know if you're doing like a talking interview or something like that i'm going to take that off because i want to demonstrate my delay and that'll cut off my delay so i'm going to keep that off you can watch other videos which can tell you how to play with that the compressor again i have to be careful with feedback here in fact let me pull this down signal down a little bit here while i put this on but i got to click it on here as well and let's go to vocal compression okay now we've got some compression but if i went back up where i was you can see we're almost on the edge of feedback again it's got stock was six that's quite a bit of gain i think i don't think we need that with it but anyway that's your compressor i'm going to leave that off as well you can play with that there's a you can set up for a kick or snare or bass i'm going to leave it off though the eq is actually quite powerful so let's take a look at the eq again let's confirm yep i'm still on track one i haven't messed anything up and again there's videos that'll teach you how to use this but i'll just show you some quick the way i like to set it up so first thing i like to do is analyze where my voice is so there's a real time analysis rta here that you can click left click and give it a second and it'll show the pattern of my voice where my where the frequencies are and so there's nothing happening down here so we can certainly cut that out to eliminate any rumbles so let's turn on the low cut right here so low cut is on let's just pull that over and there we go so any mic noise or if you bump the mic stand or anything low and rumbly we'll be going here and then these colors correspond to these these these colors all right so orange to orange pink to pink blue to blue lighter blue to lighter blue uh and this is kind of cool here you can turn on the spectrometer here or whatever that's called but this and there's there's good videos on this but it kind of shows you where the ugliness of your voice is in red see how you got all that red in my voice right there and you can pull this up to actually hear the ugliness okay why aren't i hearing any oh i know why i'm not what did i do wrong i told you in the last video to do this and i forgot to do it myself remember it's got to be clicked here and it's got to be clicked here so there we go now you can hear some ugliness in my voice might even get a little feedback starting and that's pretty muddy and ugly so let's pull some of that out of my voice same thing here we can kind of search for some ugliness and maybe even get a little feedback there's quite a bit of red in this area so let's pull some of that out of my voice and maybe we can search around here might get some feedback here but we can also maybe kind of boost this uh around 2 cash and then we can just give me a little boost here give me like kind of a bassy boomy voice so at least it comes out our mic so that's a little bit better setup i think and maybe down just a little bit but there's your mic setup and you can of course change the kind of the range of this thing if i wanted to let's see i was taking out feedback here ugliness um that was this guy right here if i move that up to like six oops see how much more narrow it is so you can be more specific when you're searching for for ugliness like that's terrible right there let's pull that down and get that out of my voice okay but go to those other videos and if you want to keep working on that but okay there we go so now we have our main basically set up and these these effects are interesting these three compression eq and gate they will also transfer to the monitors so you don't have to reset these they go to your monitor mix if i choose the bus and send them out to the monitor through the bus they'll be there you don't have to mess with those that's not true for the uh the effects button you have to reassign those if you want which is time to do right now because we have a we have a vocal without reverb and heaven for bed you have to have reverb so remember i said click on this one up here and select the the units that you want we have a gated i don't want a gated reverb i decided so let's go with a rich plate reverb and channel one and channel three we have a let's get a different delay going here there's a modulated delay oh i don't know let's just grab one here where am i oh there's my there's that thing let's see you can kind of see all the different effects here there's a stereo delay that's fine let's do a stereo delay okay great and i'll tap this that that sets the stereo right we'll we'll make maybe 60 beats per minute so now the delay will be really slow as i said i mean if i wanted to i could click the insert button i could insert it into track one i probably shouldn't be telling you this and i can turn on the effects and the effects and you can hear the delay you can hear the delay which is really slow really slow i might speed that up a little bit a little bit okay so there's one way to put it but i don't recommend doing that it just i don't know until you until you figure things out more let's turn this off and get that back to i don't know where that's being kind of kind of some delay there okay so i only use this button to pull up the boxes that you want to use remember i already told you in the last part of the video if i want to put effects on the the main inputs i use the blue buttons so effect one is exactly the same let's click on that double click over here there's the master fader or i mean double check here so we got fx1 up there um and great bring this up if this is down nothing's going to work or if it's muted nothing's going to work this is going to control all the signal from effects 1 so that's got to be open and then you just select which input you want effect one and effect one was the reverb so who do we want reaverbot well we only have one choice we only have one mic coming in so just pull it up over here and here comes your reverb and i'll make it ridiculous amounts of reverb to the point of feedback okay so let me pull that back down because we don't want that much reverb for sure okay that's a little more reasonable what's that i hear you say you want some delay in there okay let's put some delay where was the delay well i think it was effects three so click on effects three over here in this output section um and if you forget left click over here and it'll pop up the effects unit and if i if you want to make some adjustments let's make the delay even a little longer we can mess with it here you can mess with all these things here the only thing you can't do here is you can't select a new type of effect if you want to select a new effect you have to go up here right all right so we got effects three effects three and let's just pull up some effects three over here notice the sliders changed right the sliders change because we're in a different setup now so let's send let's send some delay here delay here delay here and that's a pretty good he's a pretty good delay okay we'll get the point okay get the point get the point get the point all right all right let's pull that down um let's see i wonder if i tapped it right here i wonder if it would to that yep see that immediately changed it so you could actually lead this on how's that that's a little more reasonable but let's still back that off okay all right there you have it so we just set up channel one we gave it uh some gate we gave it an eq and a compression uh we gave it some effects a reverb and a delay and yeah that's what we did let's go back to the left mains we can actually manipulate the mains now let me show you how to or no let me save that for last let's go to the let's go to the monitor because now we got the lead singer saying hey my monitor is not working get my monitor going okay no problem so i said the monitors are the buses the aux sends are the monitors are the buses so we only have one hooked up do i have to show you that picture again i don't think i do so let's go to the bus bus one how come he's not hearing anything um well and let me back up here let's go back to the mains and let me mute them so there goes the mains right how come you can still hear me well remember we have the silver yeti going into my computer that's bypassing this so i can still talk to you so that's how you can hear me because the yeti is going into my computer into camtasia but you can't hear anything because i just muted the mains but we want to get the the monitors going so let's click on the only monitor we have that's monitor one or bus one okay great let's pull up some signal let's make sure the master so it's bus one here let's make sure the master is to unity gain great let's pull it up and give us some signal and here comes some signal from my left and you get this one pretty loud probably and great there it is it's keeping the same eq settings and it's keeping the polarity settings from above and yeah so there you go and now let's say the singer goes okay i gotta have some i have to have some reverb in my monitor mix no problem remember i said the green ones are for pulling up the effects for the monitor signal and you don't touch anything else we're working with the bus so the bus stays checked here and checked over here i mean if you check this it automatically pops that up you can see how if i go to bus three this the main goes to bus three so all you have to do is is pull this fader up okay you want some reverb let's pull up some reverb there you go is that enough let's make it like ridiculous okay that's a lot ridiculous amount of reverb so let's pull that down to a better level it's probably a little more manageable oh what what does he say oh he wants some delay in his monitor no problem delay was on effects three let's pull up some delay and here it comes some delay and let's slow it down one two and now we got some now wicked delay okay all right so and let's we can make that a little more reasonable to the beat of the song all right so now if i go back to the mains hopefully we i'm going to turn this down just a little bit so we don't get feedback i got the monitor going full blast and the mains going full blast but here we go i bring the mains up and yep that's about as loud as i can get it in my little room here and that's certainly more than loud enough for this little room um great one more trick i want to show you here uh with regard to the mains and i'm gonna go let's mute the monitor i don't need that on so you tell me how to do that how do you meet the monitor well you got to go to the monitor bus one is the monitor aux 1 is where it's coming out of and we can just pull it down and there it goes or we could leave it there and we can mute it here great okay or i guess let's see i suppose we could mute it like that as well so that's another way to mute it alrighty but let's mute it and let me show you one more trick we can do with the mains and i think i could get those mains up here more maybe yep so there's the mains going if you we click mains here if you click the left and right and highlight the whole channel here and go back to the top and go to equalizer look at this trick now we have a six band parametric eq that's even better than we had before remember there's only a five band parametric eq on the signal on the individual channels so that's great we can also turn on okay real time is turned on we can get rid of that if we want and yeah so we have that if we want to i don't know take some more ugliness out of the whole band song we can pull some more out here it's got a little kind of a syllabus kind of deal here well i'd have to change that well there we go i can pull that out right there i would have to make that a little more narrow though because we don't need that much and again i'm just kind of messing around here there we go we can pull some of that out so i can even get a little more volume now but yeah so that's on the mains and i'm not done look at this we don't have this on the other ones we have over here to the right there's a graphics eq that you can pull up and you can hit real-time analyzer and there's there's my vocal pattern again and we could see where there's still some ugliness over here and yeah and so we can turn the spectrum analyzer on again and look for that and we can still see the ugliness but yeah it's just another um just kind of another way to to eq your mains now okay one more thing so we've we've worked so hard to get everything set up here right um let's save this because we're gonna have the band coming in right after us and we're playing tomorrow so we want to save this it's so easy go to save i think i talked about this in the last section but save it as a scene and 12 it is christmas today 12 25 20 number two great now watch this so the the club owner says okay wipe all your stuff out we got another band coming in how do you wipe this out gail gave you a second wipe wipe everything clean oh we go to setup and we go to initialize and there goes everything okay and that'll take a minute but we just wiped everything clean except for the internet settings okay so i'll let that run and and then the question is then the question is how do you get it back okay look at that everything is gone right we have nothing there's no i'm on the left and right mains there's nothing to there's nothing there all right so now we'd have to set everything up but let's say it's the next day and we got a gig and now we're learning late and you this you can set it up so simple by going to load and look for the scene that we just made and we just made it 12 25 2 or 12 25 20 number two click open okay bam we got everything back just like that i do have every now and then it doesn't load right so if it doesn't load just load it again i'm actually the first time i loaded it it didn't work i loaded it again and now it's everything is there so we can check go look at the eq [Music] yep that's still on the mains right let's go to channel one to look yep see that's how i said it before okay all right so i hope this video was helpful to you if you have comments leave them down below if you have questions i can try to answer them if you're an expert at this i've there's a better way to do this i'd be happy to learn myself i'm not as good as some of you people out there all right i hope everybody has happy holidays and thanks for watching this video

Channel: Just The Blues

Views: 69,483

Keywords: Behringer X AIR, XR16, XR18, XR12, set-up, set up, Beginners guide, Beginners tutorial, Tutorial, Guide, Douglas Gillard, Dr. Gillard, PA System, Wi-Fi, Access point, bus, aux, aux sends, mains, monitor

Id: 843gsCywi0M

Length: 57min 13sec (3433 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 27 2020