How I FIXED a Church's Mix (X32 Overhaul)

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0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Clean Out and System Rebuild
2:04 - Speaker Placement
2:58 - Optogate Automatic Gates
5:20 - S16 Stage Boxes
10:40 - Power
11:57 - Fill Speaker
12:33 - Instruments
17:38 - X32 Mixing Setup

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[slickcross]

The X32 is the Toyota Corolla of mixers.

[scotttroyer]

26:11 In the mixer preferences, turn on "DCA Groups" under "Mute System" and you'll save yourself and your team the headache of trying to figure out why an unmuted channel isn't passing audio because the DCA was muted.

[JakeGuptill]

One thing I’d do for this console setup is enable automix for your 1st four mics (speaking mics). Put em all in the same automix group and set your priorities. Luckily, you put all your mics on channels 1-8 (the only channels available to use automix on the X32). Makes a big difference when you’ve got more than 1 speaking mic on at a time. The automix not only “ducks” the speakers that aren’t speaking at the time.. but it consolidates the output of each automix channel, making the livestream audio more consistent. Without automix, every mic channel you turn on adds approx 3db to the mix.. but with automix, all the automix channels share the same 3db… So if you have a panel of 4 speakers and they all laugh at the same time, the levels don’t skyrocket! I leave automix enabled all the time for my speaking mics, even if they’re not being used.

[buelow]

We use some busses to group channels before they go to the P16s, for example we have a tracks channel or a TB channel. You can also use it to have one channel for different instruments, for example we have a saxophone player that never plays when the electric guitar is playing. So they share a group and you don't need to change any routing for that.

[collinscassel]

Rather than using a 25 foot USB Cable. I use a USB to CAT6 extender. Way more reliable and you can move the laptop or iPad anywhere you need it for tracks.

[DallasSoundGuys]

I wonder if you could put floor boxes / floor pockets into your ~6in stage.

[atster]

Hey man i have the same mixer at my church and wanted to know what the software is called at 19:32, i also have cakewalk with that real time pitch correction from wave (that i still need to test) and connected the mixers ethernet to a router to control it from a ipad, also do all the these softwares comunicate with the mixer with usb to the mixer with no DANTE network???

[okokuvictory]

24:06 How can you get separate outputs for the individual kits.

[DallasSoundGuys]

I used to have the Producer, went to the M32R as soon as I could.

[owenjapar]

Hi Jake, it's okay to use a Linked(stereo bus) for Streaming, not using any matrix rght?

[tulsatom]

PATCHING 1-to-1: @ 18:48 through 19:09
- I assume you are meaning - Stage Box-1 goes to Mixer-1; SB-1 to Mx-2; etc
- If the Mixer is 1 to 16 (or 32) Left-to-Right; then why Place/Number the Stage in the Opposite Direction from the Sound Engineer’s Perspective?

[barakaavenueentertainment]

I like the content for the church front. You really inspire us a lot. 🙏🏽 Thank you

[YourHaloCreations]

So during a service, are you managing DCAs/channels for your mix & leaving the busses for band & vocals alone?

[jonathanhatchmusic]

Pro Tip on Gates, without purchasing any additional gear: most consoles allow the ability of filtering, or keying, your Gate. This does NOT affect the signal input or output. It tells the gate what frequencies in the signal to look for and/or exclude. Many consoles also have the ability to Listen or Solo the filter--do NOT Listen or Solo live during an event. I use this function on drums, talkbacks and sometimes vocals.

[generalsamuk]

Loving the videos.. but can you ask the camera guy to be a little less Zak Snyder with the focus depth 😀

[andrewbrathwaite]

Is there a dependable musical equipment store, that will sell wireless vocal gear to a person of color.

[harlanchaput]

You can turn buses into sub groups on the PC by selecting sends on any channel and selecting "Sub Group" from the list at the top.

[henryvanschalkwyk]

than you for the video, one question, if you use bus 13 as a input channel bus, don't you then loose that effect send?

[urjeff]

Bro lmk if you need help with anything I'm about 30 mins away from there

[jeremiahhussey]

Holy 🙏 cables 😮 seeing this 7months later