Behringer X18

[Dan Richardson]

Re: Behringer X18

BTW the power supply for the DL1608 is a couple steps up from the cheap crap ones you may be familiar with for laptops and such.

Not so much. Mackie's DL1608 has a pin 1 grounding problem, and the power supply is part of it. This is why it puts spurious garbage into the audio if you plug the 1/4" auxes into an unbalanced input. Replacing the Mackie supply with a better one cures it. It doesn't thread onto the Mackie jack, though, so I carry it as a spare and problem solver.

 

[Dan Richardson]

Re: Behringer X18

I am not sure I would have integrated the wireless myself. I have a sneaky suspicion that they are using 2.4Ghz which would be a mistake.

There's an ethernet jack and a switch to disable the internal wifi. Use whatever you want.

 

[John Chiara]

Release Date?

I love talking about this but having a solid date would help in seasonal planning.
An idea?

 

[Richard Cooper]

Re: Behringer X18

There's an ethernet jack and a switch to disable the internal wifi. Use whatever you want.

However that works, the thing that differentiates the X18 for me is that it appears to also support WIRED ethernet control from a laptop. I'm going to be interested in how the "access point" works, i.e. can I connect a laptop out front via ethernet and still use an iPad without any other hardware, if so I can see this being a very useful tool around my workplace for small one off events in rooms with loads of installed data cabling, but no audio infrastructure.

 

[Dan Richardson]

Re: Release Date?

I love talking about this but having a solid date would help in seasonal planning.
An idea?

The X18 is the X16, which was announced 2 years(?) ago. It's a moving target. I have heard October.

 

[Dan Richardson]

Re: Behringer X18

However that works, the thing that differentiates the X18 for me is that it appears to also support WIRED ethernet control from a laptop. I'm going to be interested in how the "access point" works, i.e. can I connect a laptop out front via ethernet and still use an iPad without any other hardware, if so I can see this being a very useful tool around my workplace for small one off events in rooms with loads of installed data cabling, but no audio infrastructure.

At the moment, it's got a 3 position hardware switch labeled Ethernet/WIFI Client/Access Point. So no, not without something external. However, if you choose Ethernet and put a router between your laptop and the X18, then yes.

http://www.keymusic.com/gfx_productcode/XL/218442/3/Behringer-X-18.jpg

As for what it will look like when it actually reaches the market, nobody knows for sure.

 

[gordon mcgregor]

Re: Behringer X18

It's quite a bit larger han these consoles but the solution to all the various Ipad sizes that the Roland M200 uses is quite neat, a simple support and an adapting cable to whatever flavour of wacky connector Apple can dream up next into the port on the back of the console.

 

[Axel Luedecke]

Re: Behringer X18

It's quite a bit larger han these consoles but the solution to all the various Ipad sizes that the Roland M200 uses is quite neat, a simple support and an adapting cable to whatever flavour of wacky connector Apple can dream up next into the port on the back of the console.

From the price point (and size) of the Roland M200i system, it compares more like with any of the X32 family member with faders and not with ix18 ….

 

[gordon mcgregor]

Re: Behringer X18

yeh I know just making an obsevation that when you are at the mercy of an unrelated manufacturer of a mission critical piece of kit you need to try and make sure that you have a simple answer when said manufacturer seems to take great delight in finding new and weirder connectors for everything they make as well as futz about with the size of stuff. G

 

[Mick Berg]

What to do with junky old equipment

I have a pile of old sound equipment that I don't know what to do with. A Samson dual 31 band graphic, 2 Behringer compressors, Mackie mixer, 2 Soundcraft Spirit Folio mixers, all with annoying intermittent faults that make them useless. All I can think of is to take them to the next electronics recycling event near my house, but does anyone have a better idea?

Thanks,

Mick Berg.

 

[Robert Piascik]

Re: What to do with junky old equipment

I have a pile of old sound equipment that I don't know what to do with. A Samson dual 31 band graphic, 2 Behringer compressors, Mackie mixer, 2 Soundcraft Spirit Folio mixers, all with annoying intermittent faults that make them useless. All I can think of is to take them to the next electronics recycling event near my house, but does anyone have a better idea?

Boat anchor? Doorstop?

 

[Ernest Graham]

Re: What to do with junky old equipment

I have a pile of old sound equipment that I don't know what to do with. A Samson dual 31 band graphic, 2 Behringer compressors, Mackie mixer, 2 Soundcraft Spirit Folio mixers, all with annoying intermittent faults that make them useless. All I can think of is to take them to the next electronics recycling event near my house, but does anyone have a better idea?

Thanks,

Mick Berg.

I sold my old passive analog rig to people on Craigslist and what did not sell there went to Guitar Center for sale or trade. You have to price the stuff right, but even more important you must sell it at the right time. I try to never hold onto gear for too long. Get your money's worth then sell it. Cables, compressors, eqs, behry monitors, DSP, 3 analog 2 behry 1 yamaha mixers, 8 pairs of tops and subs, but all my stuff was babied and still in working condition when I sold it. Who on earth would want to buy broken gear that is also obsolete. When some of my gear went bad on me before I could sell it, but after warranty, I would fix it, then sell it afterwards or sell it to a dude who could fix it himself and give him a discount equal to buying the parts. Other than that I'd say donate it to a curious youngster with a knack for breaking down electronics.

 

[Dan Richardson]

Re: Behringer X18

the solution to all the various Ipad sizes that the Roland M200 uses is quite neat, a simple support and an adapting cable to whatever flavour of wacky connector Apple can dream up next into the port on the back of the console.

Or you can use the solution that the X18 and the TouchMix propose. Don't dock the iPad at all. Unless you're trying to use it for record/playback, there's no reason to. In fact, there's no reason for the X18 to even look like a console.

 

[Per Søvik]

Re: Behringer X18

Or you can use the solution that the X18 and the TouchMix propose. Don't dock the iPad at all. Unless you're trying to use it for record/playback, there's no reason to. In fact, there's no reason for the X18 to even look like a console.

Yeah, it would be better house inside something like this


only problem with that is that a lot of users looks for something that looks like a mixer, so it would be harder to sell in droves.