TUTORIAL: Behringer X32 & X32 Compact |PART 1| The Basics

In part 1 I teach the basics of using a digital console and give you a tour around the Behringer x32 Compact. Everything in this course can be applied to the X32, X32 Compact, and X32 Producer.

-- THE GEAR --

-- VIDEO --

-- Work with me --

Richie Deegan:

0:00 INTRO
1:18 Faders
3:45 Channel Strip, EQ, Gate, Compression
5:47 DCA's - Subgroups
7:26 Mute Groups
8:16 Scenes - Saving and Recalling
11:10 Mix Busses - Monitor mixes
12:41 Mix Busses - FX
15:02 Sends on Fader - Fast Monitor Mix
16:24 USB Recording

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[ebentechstudio]

The best and simple tutorial on a digital mixer

[tchads_]

Thank you for taking the time to do this. We had an A/V person who set up and ran our church service streaming. He left and now we’re scrambling to figure it all out. I have a very basic knowledge of using an analog board and this tutorial has helped understand the digital X32 Compact we have. Thanks again!

[backstageliv_]

Thank you so so much! I started working with this at my dad's church and the most I could do was control volume and mitigate feedback and add coloring to the sound with the EQ, but everything else I couldn't figure out for the life of me. Thank you for this simple yet detailed breakdown, I feel a lot better about being able to give my dad the sound he wants for his church!

[mobrien]

Great tutorial. Our church just picked up an X32 Producer and I've never worked a digitl board before. This gives me a great starting point.

[rodbrents]

Thanks Matt. I'm still learning the system at church so this will be VERY helpful. It was a pleasure meeting you last week.

[the_bootstrap_paradox]

Would love to see an X32 Compact in depth explanation/tutorial on routing and set up using digital snakes etc, plus a more detailed session on effects please.

[jeremy]

Got this board a couple months ago at church. We've been trying to figure out stuff on our own, but since we have been having issues, I thought I'd check out your video before our meeting on getting everyone on the same page. The scene info is going to be very helpful, because everyone else gets crazy with this board.

[lordmonty]

I am looking forward to watching this. Our church is now using this mixer.

[TheCJHutchison]

Great tutorial, thank you for sharing this! For 10:52 you may want to anyway save the previous setup for the whoever made it, before you then re-open yours

[damianlifestyletv]

Wonderful and in-depth, I was scared to even touch a digital board because I have only used analogs, but with this lesson am ready to go digital

[raynaldo]

Thanks for a great tutorial! We use 12 mics and one thing that I find very useful is the ability to view your 16 mic inputs across the board by selecting 1-8 and 9-16 on the left side of the board at the same time.

[JungleQueen]

I was LIKE 667, doing new mic set up at church today. Im a student, so helpful! TY

[nanakisdrums]

awesome tutorial! I am also apart of a church band and we have two groups; scenes feature seems easy and fun to use when it comes to making our own presets. We are planning to make an upgrade to our pa system and this board looks very promising! Thank you so much for this video, it was very helpful and educational!

[marmar]

I need help on how to use a group aux out I want to get more than 6 monitor outputs

[davidrenfro]

Great Tutorials, Matt. Our small church recently purchased a Behringer X32 Compact and I think it's going to be an enormous asset to our audio/visual efforts. We have both "pulpit" stationary Mics and Wireless/Cordless Mics -- but the problem I'm having setting up the board is getting "sound" from the pulpit stationary Mics to come out the house speakers... the wireless Mic setup and sound comes out, but not the stationary pulpit & Lecturn Mics. What am I doing wrong? (Does anyone else have this isssue?)

[willpestka]

I have been looking into acquiring one of these for a cover band I am FOH for. They do mostly small venues with occassional medium size venues. There are 9 instruments, 6 vocals, and one drum kit requiring 9 mics at large venues. Max board inputs would be 24. Minimum (at small venues) is 10. There are 3 vocal leads which change based on the song.
Using this would be so much better than trying to condense down into the an mg16 and mg20 the band owns lol

[robertmciver]

Great tutorial. Our church plans to order the X32 compact. We don’t have a clue how to work it & have no audio background. What are bus output & matrix output & do we need to know this? Since I am so new to this, most of what you are saying makes no sense, however, we will get 5 hours of training. We have someone who will set everything up for us. We have a simple setup with pulpit & lectern stationary mics, a couple of lavalieres & handheld mic as well as two overhead mics to pick up our choir. Do you have a basic tutorial once the setup is done on how to work the board? Sorry we are so inexperienced. Thanks

[ransfordfearon]

Hi Matt. Your video is great.. I am new to the Behringer x32 compact. I am trying my best to find way around it. Just a few days ago I cannot get any audio feed to go to the monitors. The two main speakers work great but my 3 floor monitors have no feed coming through them from the console. What advice can you give me? Thanks

[keithjoseph]

Hi this is keith i have th behringer x32 compact and just brìging out my own litte band but i m having little trouble with getting my mic audio loud, the music always covering the vocals, i will like to see some audio adjustment please and feed back cut out

and second, i also will like to see clearly how to get 17-32 mics channels active

3rd i connected my digital s16 box the light were green but no output audio
thanks for your help

[Jinaci]

There's something that confuses me about the Behringer x32. I would usually use the mix buses for different monitors. Why does the mixer use some of these for effects? Let's say I have 5 musicians playing and 3 singers, and I want them all to have stereo IEMs. There are 16 outputs in the 32-channel stagebox. I'll need to use all 16 outputs. How do I do this if mix buses 13-16 are being used for effects? Can someone please explain?