How to use X32 Edit & X32 Rack Mix Buses

so i'm going to talk today about mixbuses we're going to go into some detail about mix buses and go into some detail about routing we'll talk a little bit about the bus matrix page and a little bit about the mxq app which you can run on your phone which just allows everyone to edit their headphone mixes and it's impact on x32 edit everything is on x32 and it really is as far as this goes the x32 rack which i'm using has 16 mix buses which you can see they're underneath the main left right mix bus and the mono center bus so vocals left and right you can see them there drums left and right bass left and right guitar one left and right guitar two left and right keyboards left and right and they've all got that chain icon which means that when you adjust one side you're also adjusting the other side so they're stereo busses and effects one effects two effects three x fix four they're not stereo busses so they don't have those chains between them so they can be sent to individually there are 12 outputs i'm counting one to six matrix outputs and one to six auxiliary outputs but i'm not counting seven and eight because seven and eight are dedicated to the left right main mix or i'm going to dedicate them to the left right main mix so that's exactly what they're going to be so one to six and auxiliaries five and six are repeated on phonos so unbalanced phonos outputs but um one to six are also on balance jack outputs and outputs one to six for the matrix are on xlr so they're balanced outputs as well you can choose to place any of the buses on the faders so here we've got the vocal bus so we can see the vocals and then we'll see the drums and you see that's different entirely from the vocal bus and then we've got the base bus which is different and you can just select that by clicking on it on the right and then we choose the guitar one bus and then we've got the effects one and you can see only the base is being sent to effects one bus and then effects three the vocals the recorded vocals are being sent to the effects three bus so i'm going to show you the main left right bus but i'm also going to show you the omnidirectional microphone which is just an omni mic that we've set up right in the center of the band so the band can hear each other saying anything in our headphones but it doesn't feed the main output of the desk it only feeds the headphone buses so it's the omni microphone on channel 16 which is an omnidirectional phantom powered microphone you will hear that on the main left right bus if i turn it up but then the solos you won't hear on the main left right bus you'll only hear them on the control room bus so the control room outputs you will hear the solos on but the you won't hear the solos on the main left right bus okay so i'm just going to shut up and let you hear this this is the omnidirectional microphone and if i turn it up so now you can you hear me that's very good okay and if i mute it this hit that is [Music] so that's the different buses that you can place on the faders you can name color stereo pair of buses on the bus matrix screen not on this screen so i'll talk about that later in this presentation but you can't do it on this screen we need to route the mix buses to the outputs of the x32 rack this is where the routing tab comes in and we can find the routing tab just at the very top on the right of the page you'll see the routing tab there okay so if we go to the rooting tab and press that then you'll see a lot of different connections that you can route to so you can route to the inputs so the xlr inputs on the back of the desk don't have to go to the channels they could go to somewhere else so if you want to route the inputs to the channels you have to choose that okay i'll show you what i mean by that this is us clicking on the inputs tab so these are the inputs on the back of the x32 rack inputs 1 to 16. each of them has phantom power on the bottom left it can be individually switched on or off if it's on the led will turn red light up red if it's off the led is unlit which is what it is just now these xlrs can take both microphone inputs but they can also take line level inputs set up 1 to 16 on the back of the desk to feed channels 1 to 16 on the desk okay so the source would be the local 1 to 16 which is the local inputs and i haven't got anything plugged in from 17 to 32 because there's nothing plugged in there there's nothing to connect there what i've done then is i've just used 17 to 32 so it's outputs 1 to 16 are on channels 17 to 32 on the usb card the grayed out ones card one to 32 they could they're only available when you choose play mode rather than record mode i'm always going to be in record mode just um ignore them for a moment this is the aes50 tab on the back of the x32 rack they can handle a lot of signals i mean 48 each aes50 so that's a and b that's 96 channels in total that they can handle so each of them can handle 48 channels i'm not using them at the moment so i haven't really bothered to write them to anything at the moment 1 to 16 are rooted to es50a and b and 1 to 32 and alternate signals 1 to 16 are routed to aes 50 a and b 33 to 48. so there's a lot of things that have been rooted there but i'm not using anything because i haven't been able to afford anything to plug into that so i'm not doing anything with them this is the card routing tab so it came the x32 rack came with a 32 channel usb audio interface card pre-installed that card as i said before card 1 to 16 are inputting on channels 17 to 32 the local inputs 1 to 16 are sending to card outputs 1 to 16 but the card outputs 1 to 8 1 to 16 are also sending to output 17 to 32 and that doesn't make much sense so i'm just going to change that so now local channels 17 to 20 32 are being output to the card on 17 to 32. i'm not really using the card as an output at this point so it doesn't make much difference but it'll make some difference to some of you using this the xlr outputs on the back of the x32 rack well they are at the moment i've chosen to route the outputs to the outputs so the outputs outputs one to eight are being sent out of outputs one to eight that kind of seems like a bit of duplication it's sort of um you can route anything to those outputs so you could choose that you were going to send the card one to eight to the outputs one to eight if you wanted to this has an impact on the next tab that you're going to work on which is the outputs 1 to 16. so on this x32 rack i've set it up to send mixed buses 9 to 14 to matrix outputs 1 to 6. 9 to 14 are outputting matrix outputs so guitar two left guitar two right keys one keys left right and right and then effects one and effects two and then i've got the main left and right going out of the seven and eight outputs and then i've got the direct outputs from the effects going to the outputs of 9 10 11 12. these aren't routed to anything so they aren't on any outputs that we've got on the back of the desk or anything that's connected to the x32 rack they're just going to appear as internal outputs so they'll appear as channels in the outputs so i'm using seven and eight to feed the left right mix of the musicians to the pa so the left is going to the left pa speaker and the right is going to the right pa speaker and i've also told the mixer to the direct outputs of the four effect units to virtual outputs 9 to 16 because they don't actually appear as real outputs on the desk in the routing tab there's a thing called output delay and you can delay each of the 16 outputs you could decide to do this if one of the outputs is feeding a speaker say that's on the front of house mix position but the front of house makes position maybe is several hundred meters in front of the stage so you want to time delay your speaker which is close to you to the same as the speakers that are just outputting from the pa and from the back line so don't forget to turn on the delta t at the top of the output if you do that then you'll hear the delay but if you don't do that you won't hear the delay even though you've set it up i've talked about a little bit about this speed of sound is approximately 343 meters per second so if you're 343 meters away from the desk then it will be one second before the sound arrives to you okay uh the aux outputs well i've set the aux outputs these are the physical aux outputs on the back of the x32 rack i've set them up so that the ox outputs take vocals drums and bass in the screen grab you can see i've sent mixed buses one to six to auxiliary outputs one to six so that's kind of what i've set up to i've also sent the main left right outputs to the aes ebu left and right opus but i'm not using the cvu routers so uh that's redundant alternet well when you're using personal monitoring p16s which give you all the signals so a person can set up their headphones just as they want to p16s cost about three or four hundred pounds each i haven't bought them because we don't have a budget for them but it will affect the alternate routing all the same if we press the bus matrix tab at the left of the screen which is on the left so we'll just see it just there it's highlighted the bus matrix screen then we'll get to a different screen so everything changes so now we've got the bus matrix which just shows individual buses and the individual matrix outputs so the 1 to 16 buses and 1 2 3 4 5 6 matrix outputs that i've defined and it allows you to alter all the bus levels this is where you can name and color a bus and stereo pair a bus as well so in this page you're able to do all the things that i've done in terms of the mix buses you can turn up or down any bus [Music] so we're listening to the keyboards you can see is on the right as well so turning up or down any bus won't affect anything but the bus that we're listening to which happens to the keyboard bus at the moment you can use the mxq app on your phone to alter a bus level now i'm just going to show two screen grabs here which are the mxq app on the bottom and the x32 app at the top and just show how one affects the other i'll give it to you [Music] so you could see the mxq app we turned down the main fader for the keyboards bus headphone bus that turned down the main output for the keyboards bus so we saw that in the x32 application and we saw it in the mxq app on our phone you can use the mxq app to alter how individual instruments feed your headphones as well as general levels so if i just use the mxq app on the mixer tab at the top of the screen then i can choose to edit and i'm going to focus on ben's vocals because they're very obvious so you can hear the lead vocalist being turned up or turned down okay so you could hear an individual instrument can be altered in the keyboards bus but we're just listening to the keyboards bus at the moment that's what we're listening to you can use the tabs along the top to choose an overview or zoom in to the selected channel it's next time i'll talk a lot about the zooming in and the individual channels what you can get to by just using the tabs at the top of the screen for just now that's great thank you very much

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Length: 15min 25sec (925 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 16 2020