Wondering How To Send Reverb To Monitors? Behringer X32 XR18 - M32 MR18 - FX To Mons How To Guide

'How to' guide for sending effects (FX / reverb) to monitors for the X32 & XR18 consoles from Behringer & the Midas M32 and MR18. With more and more musicians now using in ear monitors (IEMs), the demand for reverb and other FX on their microphone and in their monitor mixes is growing.
The detail level of an in ear monitor mix is high, and distracting ambient sounds are much more controlled. Therefore, musicians are more likely to notice undesired changes in the mix, as well as appreciate the spaciousness and studio quality that reverb can bring to a monitor mix. But with the isolation and detail of live in ear monitor mix, there comes little margin of error for the engineer. Understanding how to give the musicians reverb, when requested, and the options and things to look out for, can be a big help in making for a solid performance for everyone. The crowd, the performers, and the engineer(s).

This information is pertinent for live wedges or IEMs. In fact, although the examples are demonstrated on the Behringer X32 and XR18 digital mixing platform, the methods are the same for any audio console.

Summary: This video is a live sound reinforcement tutorial focusing on the routing of effects to monitors for live audio mixing.

Behringer/Midas scene files (.scn) from this video are available for download by Patrons on the Patreon Page.
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Suggested videos:

Five Tips For Better Live Vocal Mixes:

Behringer X32 Monitor Setup Tutorial:

Behringer XR18 Monitor Setup Tutorial:

5 Typical Mistakes Behringer X32 and Midas M32 Users Make:

5 Typical Mistakes Behringer XR18 and Midas MR18 Users Make:

X32/M32 Monitor Mixing Tutorial Playlist:

Drum Mixing Playlist:

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0:00 Intro
0:09 Scenes
1:18 FX Setup
1:52 Shared FX Setup
2:12 Mons From FOH Scene
5:19 Dedicated FX Setup
7:34 IEMS

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[AlanHamiltonAudio]

There are always a lot of questions on Behringer sites about routing the FX to monitors, so I decided to make this the subject of the most recent video. With gigs coming back and IEMs getting more and more popular, this is a topic that's going to be around for a while I imagine. It's not that reverb was and is never used in wedges, but it has not been requested nearly as much as it is for IEMs. As always feel free to ask any questions and to share the video link!

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Amazon Affiliate Links:

Behringer XR18 on Amazon:

Behringer X32 on Amazon:

KZ ZS10 Pro earpieces on Amazon:

Behringer Powerplay P1 Personal In-ear Monitor Amplifier on Amazon:

Shure SM58 on Amazon:

Shure Beta57A on Amazon:

Stellar XT (Narration) Mic on Amazon:



Suggested videos:

Five Tips For Better Live Vocal Mixes:

Behringer X32 Monitor Setup Tutorial:

Behringer XR18 Monitor Setup Tutorial:

5 Typical Mistakes Behringer X32 and Midas M32 Users Make:

5 Typical Mistakes Behringer XR18 and Midas MR18 Users Make:

X32/M32 Monitor Mixing Tutorial Playlist:


Facebook Group:

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[josedepaz]

Yeah I was about to comment, one FX could be sent to FOH and another one to MONITORS. This is exactly what I was thinking as I was watching the video. These videos are super helpful!

[djabthrash]

Excellent video !
I just realized recently that sharing FX for FOH and MON was a bit tricky and there are things to know about that :)

[johnsix]

Excellent video on monitor sends. I love that you show the XR18 and x32 systems.

[jacobdadisman]

I've been used to using full desks up until this year and had to downsize to the XR18 for portability. Love these Behringer tutorials, they are much appreciated!

[AlanHamiltonAudio]

0:00 Intro
0:09 Scenes
1:18 FX Setup
1:52 Shared FX Setup
2:12 Mons From FOH Scene
5:19 Dedicated FX Setup
7:34 IEMS

[bagassetiawan]

Next day I will streaming for graduation ceremony with behringer x air 12. I uses LR for on site speaker, aux for OBS(stream to YouTube), aux 2 to zoom. There's 4 effect and I use 1 of them for every output.

[stevec]

Love your channel, so helpful. Thanks

[RamboMadCow]

I might need to re-watch this a few times to fully grasp the reverb bleed or how to deal with it... Were you saying there's no way to send a single reverb type for one channel to multiple monitor busses without it bleeding?

My current band uses 3 sets of busses in stereo for IEM mixing. We'd really like to have reverb on my vocals in our busses but not sent to FOH. If the only way to do this is to set up a reverb for every single bus, and we're using 6 total buses (3 sets of 2), does that imply I won't have enough effects for 3 stereo bus pairs?

[Bingbangbo]

Neat, Thahmk you very much, will try that.

[flddoc]

Thank you. These videos are great however, I have a “why” brain. I can do the settings as instructed but the distracting question of why muddles my process. I need the fill ins of both the big picture and just the basic, somewhat detailed explanation to better understand the reason. Is there a relatively short course that can help me out you can recommend?

[billtomlinson]

Hi Alan, great tutorial as usual thank you. With this setup, we have a singer with some effects i.e. reverb, and I have been setting as you show, these would be individual monitor buses for each band member so they can adjust the levels of the other members to suit the, . However, for example, if anyone wants to mute or lower the vocal channel its only the dry signal gets adjusted, and therefore the FX send still gets through, this I can only seem to change by also reducing or muting the specific FX return in that monitor bus. This means the member needs to adjust 2 sliders or mutes to achieve this? or do I need to use inserts to do this, although I prefer send and return type

[roncytron]

Sorry for the naive question: I just got my mixer, and have been wanting to put some reverb in the monitor(s). The X Air app for my iPad doesn't seem to offer the richer functionality you show in the X Air Edit program. I could only find X Air Edit for my Mac, in spite of seeing so many places it should be available for the iPad, where I'd like to host the app. Thanks for guidance!

[murph]

I’m doing a shared setup and in fact, I’m using the exact same plate reverb that you’re using in this demonstration with the same level settings and this issue I am having is the reverb wants to launch the system into uncontrolled feedback. What point of the process am I not doing right and how can I correct my mistake? Possibly reduce the level of the reverb plug-in or cut back on the sends? I’ve got one wedge set at the base of all 3 of my mic stands, a typical monitor position, so I don’t think speaker placement is the issue.

[maxw.]

Thanks for the video!
Perhaps this is a dumb question - but if you were using the XR18 as dedicated IEM mixer, how would you output to another FOH mixer?
I have this exact use case for our on-stage IEM, but I need the individual channels on XLR outs; I can't count on FOH to support AES50 or something like that, which the XR18 doesn't support anyway.
I've been looking for some time, but haven't found an affordable rack-mounted solution yet that doesn't involve abusing Ultranet, which comes with its own disadvantages.

[drumtimer]

I like your videos. I have a very large drum set. Each drum is Mic'd with Audix mics corresponding to each snare, toms, gong and kicks plus 2 condencing overhead and 2 cond on hh and ride bell. Every instrument has its own channels. I'm using a Behringer XR18 Air. When trying to add an effect to the snare, let's say reverb and or delay or both. I get effects bleeding over to all other mics. I would think this may be fixed by gating them? Although when doing so, I loss volume. What do you recommend?

[jweaks]

Love your videos, Alan. My problem is I'm using a dual stereo mix bus as a send to our video livestream, and I can't figure out how to add a teeny bit of reverb to the whole Bus to add a little flavor since it lacks the room echo. Any tip there?

[fabiobba]

I was wondering if it was possible to remove the effects from the buses and use them as normal monitor lines.
For example bus 13 with no effect, xlr 13 output to a stage monitor. Ie bus 13 like MixBus

[EmomBerks]

Is it possible to send effects to the solo bus for control room monitoring in order to get the reverb levels right before sending them to the front of house.

[AKustik]

My guru Mr. Alan, on your video, step 1 is to pull up the vocal channel level first on a monitor 1 (for example), then select FX1 (reverb) channel, then go to SENDS, then pull up the level on monitor 1. My question is, if I have others like guitars, other singers, drums in that monitor 1, this means sending FX1 reverb on monitor 1 will affect all others in that monitor correct? What if I only want just the vocals to have reverb in monitor 1 and not the others? thank you!