in a world of digital audio workstations and USB audio interfaces do we really
need an analog mixer I think we do and I'll tell you why I bought this
behringer mixer as I unbox it this is the Behringer Xenyx 1002 welcome to
simple green tech I'm Radio Zane and on this channel I do weekly audio tech tips
tutorials and reviews to help you unleash your creativity now I just
bought this Behringer mixer and I have quite a few audio interfaces already and
a bunch of digital audio workstations so why would I need an analog mixer well I
want to start recording my audio directly to my computer and to my camera
at the same time so this will allow me to do that also it's going to allow me
to output my computer audio to my camera which is pretty cool and I want to start
incorporating some outboard gear into my music setup and this guy is going to
allow me to do that this is the behringer xenyx 1002 I put
links to the behringer xenyx 1002 in the description below just in case you want
to see the latest pricing and check out some more of the features but right now
let's get unboxing this
this is probably our power adapter right here and here's our behringer xenyx
1002 mixer you also have your paperwork here which includes a block diagram and
I'm sure your instructions are inside for how to connect it to various things
plus you get this behringer sticker right there and that's it for inside the
box the color of the mixer itself is actually darker than what I thought it
was going to be I thought it was going to be like a lighter gray color but this
is actually a nice dark color which goes with my setup quite a bit better this
behringer mixer is stereo meaning it will only output two channels a left and
a right channel these are your main outputs right here you have two mono
channels over here and this is where your xenyx mic preamps are you actually
have separate gain controls for your mic preamps which is pretty nice so you can
add more gain or less gain whatever your mic needs and when connecting a
microphone you want to connect it to either of these XLR inputs not the line
inputs you don't want to use one of those XLR to quarter-inch cables you
want to use an XLR to XLR cable and that way you can take advantage of the xenyx
preamps and it's going to sound a lot nicer also if you plan on using the
phantom power you will need to use the XLR inputs for that
and speaking of phantom power the switch for that is right here just push it in
for on now for off you're going to also notice on these mono channels that
there's a line input on each one you cannot use the line input at the same
time as the XLR on either channel you can use these line inputs over here all
you like but you cannot use these two at the same time or these two at the same
time and on the mono channels you'll notice right here these are what
behringer calls the british eq's there's your high mid
and Lows and it's a pretty basic EQ system if you're recording with this I
recommend leaving everything at zero unless you really know the sound you
want and then you can lock it in but if you leave it at zero you can always edit
the EQ later on when you're doing your mixing but if you're live-streaming you
might want to play with these a little bit just to find something that works
great for your voice you also have a 80 Hertz low cut button on each of the mono
inputs and this can cut out some of the background Rumble noise or an air
conditioner noise you can try using it on or leaving it off it's up to you it's
all a preference thing and then each channel even the stereo channels over
here have an effects knob and this controls how much of this channel will
be sent to the FX send you can actually use the FX send as another
output if you really need three outputs or you can use it for a mix minus situation
we'll get more into that in another video where I want to do tutorials for
all kinds of features with this mixer up here is your FX send right there
then you have your headphone output and this is your mains output where you can
output to your monitor speakers or to your audio interface and also over here
you have a control room output and that's kind of neat because these can
output to a whole separate thing so maybe you want to output your signal to
your audio interface through here you can do that right here you have your
two-track in and to track out you can send this output to your audio interface
if you like then go from the output of your interface into the two-track input
on this board and this will allow you to monitor what you're recording
if you connect it this way you'll want to make sure that the two track to
control button is pressed in and that the two track to mix button is not
pressed in this way you can hear what's going through your audio interface and
played back through your headphones if you route the two track to the main mix
by pressing this button it's going to create a feedback loop down here you
have your main output slider and it actually feels pretty decent moving it
up and down this is going to control the volume that's going to the main outputs
up here and over here you have your headphone
volume or control room volume and that's going to control the volume that goes to
your headphones or to the control room output and you have three controls for
each of your stereo inputs you have FX send so this is how much of this
signal is going to go out to the FX send if you use that you have balance so
you can make this go to the left or the right and you have the level and that
controls how much this will output to the main mix and that's the same on each
of the stereo channels I'm going to do a few other videos on how to connect this
to various things like an iPhone DSLR camera computer and an audio interface
let me know in the comments below if there's something that you have a
question about with this behringer mixer or a similar analog mixer like this one
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