Hello and welcome back to the channel. I thought for this installment we would
take a look at five frequently asked questions about the behringer xr18 and
the midas mr18. so let's get right to them. number five-
How do i send effects to the monitors? the main thing to remember here is that
when you turn reverb delay or chorus up on a channel,
you're sending that in parallel with the source.
in this case, the vocalist and their microphone. this graphic shows what i
mean. we can see the dry vocal headed toward
the main outputs. when you turn the effects send up on a
channel it will send that effect to the house by its own separate feed.
the two signals are in parallel. therefore,
to send this effect to the monitors as well- select that effects return
channel, and then select the monitor you want to send this effect to...
and bring it up. we are listening to monitor mix
one... monitor mix one... select the effects return...
select sends... bring up bus one to send this reverb to monitor mix one...
reverb to monitor mix 1... reverb to monitor mix 1... reverb...
reverb... i've got a longer, more in-depth video on this subject that i'll leave a
link to in the text below. Number four-
why do i hear the monitor signals in front of house?
usually, when this happens it's because the operator has accidentally selected,
or left selected, the left-right assignment on one or more of the monitor
buses. if you select each monitor bus in the
main section of the mixer, like this, and then tab over to the main
section at the top... you want to see the main stereo left
right button in the main output section, grayed out. if it's
highlighted, orange, then you're sending that bus to
the mains as well as its normal monitor output.
make sure this is grayed out for monitor feeds.
number three how do i make the reverb work?
out of the box the xr18 is already set up properly for this.
unfortunately, part of this is not very clear since all four effects slots say
'off'. they are not off. the 'inserts' are off, but we won't be inserting
time-based effects like reverb on the x-air anyway.
you just need to make sure the master effects send and return
are turned up on the time-based effect, or effects, you want to use...
and then go to the channel you want to put the effect on...
in this case we'll say the reverb and effect slot 1...
on the vocal channel, bring up the channel effects send
and you'll have reverb. select the master send
for fx1...
bring it up to unity... go back to the main mixer...
select our effects return for fx1... bring it up to unity... select our vocal
channel... go to sends... bring up effects one send on
the vocal channel, and we should have reverb.
reverb... bringing up the reverb... checking one two... reverb... reverb...
reverb... lots of reverb. i have a longer video on this topic
and i'll leave a link in the text below for that video if you're interested.
frequently asked question number two- why are my signals not loud enough?
or why are my signals too loud? the quick answer-
gain structure and signal flow. if you look closely at the meters on an xr18
you'll see zero is the top of the scale. that's our clue that these meters are
dBfs db full scale, as is commonly used in
digital consoles. on an analog console's meter there will
be several steps above zero before reaching clipping.
on digital when the scale is dBfs, zero is bucket full. unlike analog,
when there's still several db of headroom above zero,
on here, our headroom is the room we leave under
0dbfs. Roughly, on average, we want to be around -18 dbfs
on our channel input meter. you can be a little more aggressive,
or conservative, within that window, and the signal can and will peak higher,
but you want to keep headroom between those peaks
and that zero dbfs mark. Set your gains by the meters. that's why
they're there! they allow you to consistently set your
gain, and keep your other settings more consistent. from channel to channel
and show to show. get your gain structure right at the mixer
and make sure everything else downstream is based on that.
for more information about setting your gain in detail, i'll leave a link in the
text below for a video on that. i imagine experienced users already have
a pretty good idea what the number one question is going to be...
so go ahead and leave a comment below and tell me what you think it's going to
be. there might be some debate about the
order of the previous four questions... and maybe you even have a suggestion for
something i should have included. if you do, make sure to leave a comment
below and i'll try to get to it in a future video.
but... for the number one frequently asked question...
i don't think there can be any debate-
Why won't the (internal) wi-fi stay connected?? why can't i connect to the (internal) wi-fi??
it's not your fault. the built-in wi-fi is simply not very robust and cannot
handle lots of cell traffic. while it might work fine for you at
rehearsal or in smaller gatherings where there's just a couple of dozen people...
maybe... it will definitely fail you at your larger gigs!
the answer is simple: buy a dual band router.
almost any dual band router will be much better. it doesn't even need to be an
especially expensive router. the tp-link 1750 dual band router is a
solid choice and it's one of the routers i use and
can recommend. i'll leave an amazon affiliate link in the text below for
that. with an external router you also get the
benefit of a port to connect a hardwired laptop or mac
if you want that redundancy. I'll leave affiliate links and the patreon page link
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