re: X32 Discussion
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The manager of Guitar Center called me and let me know that X32 came in. I was so excited to try it. I have to say that looking at the mixer for the first time is impressive. Nice size, knobs feel good, fader caps are not like SSL but they work well. No signal showing up on any channels meter with nothing plug in.
On each channel I like that above the meter signal, there is a compressor light that tells you when it is being used on a channel. Also the menu screen when set to showing all the signal meters also shows the compressor signal on each channel. Very nice. The EQ sounds better than the built in EQ in Cubase. It has a smoother sound, sort of reminds me of the UAD Cambridge EQ. Compressor also is better than the standard compressor in Cubase. Bread and butter effects are also very good. For studio use, there is no reason to use third party plug ins unless you want a specific character they offer.
There are a lot of questions I have with routing and how things work though. It seems inserts are only on FX 1-4. FX 5-7 does not give you the option of insert but channels and 1-4 has inserts and buses. Chorus and some other effects only appeared to show up in FX 1-4. I don't know why? Linking channels worked very well. Moving one fader moves the fader next to it. Did not figure out how to do group mutes yet. Waiting for the full version of the manual.
Note on the one photo above that they used white tape to label two channels since they did not know how to label the tracks. I went to directions I received on the Behringer forum on how to label tracks. I wish there were a couple of less steps to do this. When labeling the channels, the blue color makes it a little hard to read. The stock yellow type of channel color I like best. I like that when you label a track it still shows you the channel number above the label you created. The store only has the quick guide for the mixer. I advised them that the full manual should be released this week. They were running 1.02 and told him how easy it is to update the firmware which he will do. Controlling the pre, EQ, dynamic controls and bus is pretty simple. The store had the speakers hooked up to the control room outs so when you solo a button, only that channel is heard. I told them I believe output channel 15 and 16 is for the main out's on it.
