X32 Discussion

Re: Bass guitar through DI settings?

Timo Ulkuniemi said:
Hello

I found one Pyle DI-box @ Amazon for 13,35 or so...

it looked quite decent for price - there were specs also. Input impedance was 50K , which is way too low for bass guitar ( unless it has preamp built in )... Something in vincinity of 1 Megaohm would be good. That means active box - battery operated or phantom driven.

That Pyle di might be perfectly fine with keyboards, dj-mixers, computers and other active unbalanced sources.

I suppose that besides extremely low level the sound was nothing to write home about... Here in Finland we call it "phonecall from Chicago"
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Here is a link to the Whirlwind boxes that are working fine for me.

Whirlwind EDB1 Passive Direct Box
 
Re: Mono Out?

John DiNicola said:
Hi Donnie,
The Mono bus on the X32 is a separate bus, so in order to use that you would need to engage the MONO send for each channel and give it level.
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Since we dont do AUX fed subs, I use the Mono Bus as an "extra" bus to feed my matrix. I send all my vocals to it and then to the matrix for recording purposes.
 
Re: Bass guitar through DI settings?

Liam Donaldson said:
I was using a Pyle brand DI. Cost $13 with tax and delivery. Seemed solidly built with a metal case.

That is being returned and I ordered the Radial.
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Any passive DI that cheap is going to have a crappy transformer in it which means low frequency rolloff, saturation, and distortion with hotter sources. Avoid them. When it comes to passive DIs, spend the extra money for something decent. With active you can often get away with the cheapies, but not always. Generally speaking, you usually want to use an active DI with any guitar/bass setup with passive pickups to present minimal loading to the pickup in order to maintain frequency response and minimal distortion. With piezo pickups and no preamp, you want really high input impedances, usually >2 megohms.
 
Firmware 2.0

When is firmware 2 going to be released... ??? At least can somebody give a time frame, not necessarily a due date ??? In about 2 weeks, 2 months, 2 years ???? anyone ???
 
Monitor out whine

So I have just had a fantastic 3 days using the X32 for FOH and monitors at the Rochester Sweeps festival, such a dream to use. But hey, my monitor outs have the whine! Hadn't noticed before and it was only when the monitor out was fully up. Now to be fair with the monitor out at that level if I had solo'ed a channel I would have blown my head off, we are talking about seriously loud, but with nothing through the monitors you could hear a very low level whine. With the monitor out set to a sensible listening level the whine was no longer audible so actually not a problem in practice :)
 
Re: Software Request - RTA, FFT, Transfer Function

Luigi Chelli said:
mmmm... are you sure that studiolive has a transfer function?
i had a little experience with it and i've seen just a 4 band parametric eq, and a delay finder tool (that imho didn't find the correct delays)

the real smaart is 100% a different beast, give it a try!
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Seeing the smaart integration on studiolive is a great first step to getting more tools in the box with less gear to drag out, I would hope Behringer can take the Smaart concept that appears in studio live presonus and exceed what they have started on doing. Ideally this will be in new firmware that comes out. Seeing what they set out to include in video linked below is really the beginning of what is possible, I am assuming this is legit transfer functions being done in the background or rational would not have licensed their name out?

PreSonus
 
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Re: Bass guitar through DI settings?

I'll step up and go for the DI-100, (the new one, that uses lead free solder; the old ones had a nasty habit of the phantom power failing (permanently). I like the sound, loads acoustic pickups well (little tone change), handy dual pads, nice battery option and +48 led. It really reminds me a bit of the BSS active DI... ;)

Nick Sheridan said:
I notice no one is recommending the Behringer DI's ;)
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Re: Monitor out whine

Nick Sheridan said:
So I have just had a fantastic 3 days using the X32 for FOH and monitors at the Rochester Sweeps festival, such a dream to use. But hey, my monitor outs have the whine! Hadn't noticed before and it was only when the monitor out was fully up. Now to be fair with the monitor out at that level if I had solo'ed a channel I would have blown my head off, we are talking about seriously loud, but with nothing through the monitors you could hear a very low level whine. With the monitor out set to a sensible listening level the whine was no longer audible so actually not a problem in practice :)
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I read somewhere that the whine could come from the lcd. Try setting the brightness to 100% to see if this is the issue.

Just for fun - Also try to set the lamp to 100% to see if it helps...
 
Re: Bass guitar through DI settings?

Declan Slater said:
I'll step up and go for the DI-100, (the new one, that uses lead free solder; the old ones had a nasty habit of the phantom power failing (permanently). I like the sound, loads acoustic pickups well (little tone change), handy dual pads, nice battery option and +48 led. It really reminds me a bit of the BSS active DI... ;)
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Me too!

It's slightly muddy in the low end when using i.e. 5-string bass so for recording my radial or reddi comes to the rescue. But for live use I can't hear the difference between the di-100 and the j48.
 
Re: Sticky Buttons

I'm based in London uk, and I've had my x32 for about 2 months, yesterday I fired it up and found that the bus send 1-4 select button and the shelving EQ button are both sticky. Exactly the same symptoms as described here.


The problem is I kind of put all my eggs in one basket and got rid of my analogue set up. The desk is in a venue where it's in use 3-4 days a week, so I can't really afford to pull it and lose it for days. Hiring an equivalent as a temp replacement will be expensive so I'm kind of resigned to just putting up with it. It's really taken the gloss off of what I believe is an excellent product for me. I'd be prepared to take it to Kidderminster if it could be turned around or swapped out. (The desk is only 2 month old).




help!!!
 
Re: Sticky Buttons

Richard Lewis said:
I'm based in London uk, and I've had my x32 for about 2 months, yesterday I fired it up and found that the bus send 1-4 select button and the shelving EQ button are both sticky. Exactly the same symptoms as described here.


The problem is I kind of put all my eggs in one basket and got rid of my analogue set up. The desk is in a venue where it's in use 3-4 days a week, so I can't really afford to pull it and lose it for days. Hiring an equivalent as a temp replacement will be expensive so I'm kind of resigned to just putting up with it. It's really taken the gloss off of what I believe is an excellent product for me. I'd be prepared to take it to Kidderminster if it could be turned around or swapped out. (The desk is only 2 month old).




help!!!
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Hi Richard

I have just dropped you a PM, to see how we can help resolve your dilemma

Thanks

Ian Riley
VP CARE
MUSIC Group
Behringer
 
Re: Sticky Buttons

Dear X-Heads,
This is a special day for me. One year ago, I posted my first impressions about mixing with the X32 console on an open air event on “father’s day”. Some might remember.
Well, yesterday was “father’s day” and I mixed the same band again at the same venue. I think, it is fair to say, that we all can celebrate an “X32 jubilee”:-)
I did lots of X32 shows and even I can’t remember all of them, I never had a show stopping event. Instead the X32 experience was really positive across the board for me.
Not only that the X32 offers an excellent bang for the buck, also the teamwork of the Behringer R&D and the members of this forum is outstanding for me! All lot of smart ideas
and feature requests were born here and lots of them were implemented by the R&D guys.
THANK YOU!
I think, it is absolutely phenomenal, what the X32 has become within a year!

And it seems, that the X32 is family is still evolving strong and has a strong impact to the whole mixing scene. This father’s day event seems to prove that.
The second band was mixed with a Yamaha 01V96 last year. Yesterday their soundguy showed up with an own X32. Go figure!

I was on bumming tour again and could you use the X32 Rack for this event. I mixed the whole day with XiControl and iPad. In addition, I used SAC as a VST host
and I used Drumagog for the kick drum (mixed with the original kick drum mic). I inserted SAC by using the AUX inuts. Really nice – helped me a lot.

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Sure, there is still room left for improvements and I bet we will see some cool stuf with the upcomming V2 firmware at the end of this year.
In the last weeks I had some really cool shows with professional bands, like "Dubioaza Kolektiv" from Bosnia.

Dubioza kolektiv "U.S.A." OFFICIAL HQ (lyrics) - YouTube

There are a major act in their country,
and they where on their way from Munich to Amsterdam and had normally a day off, so we could book them to play a show in our hometown. Their soundguys was nothing but awesome.
He never mixed on an X32 before and I showed him the basics within 5 minutes and he was good to go. He mixed eight lines of monitors from foh. Impressive!
The next day I mixed Tony Spinner+ band in the same venue and did a USB recording straight out of the desk. Nothing beats good musicians :-)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21028604/Tony Spinner Band - Rockschicht.mp3

I'm curious, where the X-journey will lead us to. So far, I enjoyed the ride:-)
Christian
 
Re: Monitor out whine

Hi Nick,

If it ever does become a problem for you, please let us know so we can arrange for the desk to be looked at by our service technicians.


Kind Regards,
Fiona Hammond
CARE EMEA
MUSIC Group
BEHRINGER

Nick Sheridan said:
So I have just had a fantastic 3 days using the X32 for FOH and monitors at the Rochester Sweeps festival, such a dream to use. But hey, my monitor outs have the whine! Hadn't noticed before and it was only when the monitor out was fully up. Now to be fair with the monitor out at that level if I had solo'ed a channel I would have blown my head off, we are talking about seriously loud, but with nothing through the monitors you could hear a very low level whine. With the monitor out set to a sensible listening level the whine was no longer audible so actually not a problem in practice :)
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Re: X32 Cooling Fan

Robert Wester said:
Hello,

I'm using my X32 for a couple of days now, but noticed that my desk produce a lot of noise by the cooling fan . The fan is running at full-power blowing air from under the desk.

A review on the internet says "the (very quiet) slow-speed cooling fan on the bottom of the desk". My cooling fan is running at full-speed is this normal, a setting or a defective? Because I use it in churches a noisy fan is a problem.
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Problem solved, the desk is replaced by the reseller in the Netherlands. The new desk is very quiet :-)
 
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