Something that I always get questions on is the ‘Output Tap’ function on the routing screen on the Behringer X32 and Midas M32. Depending on how you have the channel set up, the output tap can be a burden or an aid to your outputs. Today, I wanted to dive into this and really help give a clear picture of how we can use this to our advantage.
Output Tap Options
Open the ROUTING menu, select the CARD OUT tab, and select new sound sources for the card’s output channels. Connect the X32 to your computer via USB. Windows users will first need to install the latest driver available from Behringer. When setting up your Behringer X32 to a digital snake box, you will need to press the ‘Routing’ button and tab over to ‘home’. Once you do this you will be able to select from the AES50 A1-32 for the inputs that you choose to pull from the AES50A Port, or the AES50 B1-32 for the inputs coming from the AES50B Port.
- Behringer Products Mixers Digital X32 COMPACT. X32 Quick Tip: Card Output Routing. X32 Quick Tip: Card Output Routing. Webinar: X32 with Waves.
- X32’s automated control surface is designed to present you with the control you need, when you need it. A total of 29 programmable LCD Scribble Strips offer channel/bus identification that mirrors what is being controlled. Use them to enter input/output tags, plus add icons you recognize at-a-glance.
- Behringer X32 Routing Blocks With all of these inputs, the console can handle a total of 38 channels (when we include the 6 aux channels), but the majority of the channels are routed in blocks of 8. The Home tab of the Routing Section corresponds to the channels 1-32 on the physical console and they are broken into Inputs 1-8, 9-16, 17-24,.
Much like the Mixbus sends configuration, with the output tap, we have a few different options, and here they are below:
- IN/LC
- IN/LC + M
- PreEQ
- PreEQ + M
- PostEQ
- PostEQ + M
- PreFdr
- PreFdr + M
- Post Fader
On the mixer and in version 2 of X-32 Edit you will see them listed like this:
In X32-Edit v3+ you will see them listed like this:
- IN/LC – This tap is directly after the Input, Preamp Gain and Low Cut. Being before any of the EQ and dynamics, this would be the cleanest unprocessed audio from each channel available.
- PreEQ – This tap is before the EQ but after the Gate. There is also a configurable option to have the Insert before this tap, so you can have the Insert set to ‘PRE’ and have this tap pull the audio off of the channel after the insert. (This would be beneficial if an inserted effect was desired, but not the EQ).
- PostEQ – This tap is after the EQ. The Dynamics is configurable to be pre or post EQ; when it is set to ‘PRE’, the ‘Post EQ signal tap’ will include the dynamics as seen in the graphic below. When the Dynamics is set to ‘POST’ then the ‘Post EQ signal tap’ is before the Dynamics section.
- PreFdr – This tap is before the channel fader. Any channel fader movements will NOT affect the signal coming out of the output taps up to this point. One thing to note, if you have Dynamics set to POST, this tap will pull audio off of the channel after the Dynamics. You may also notice that if you have Dynamics set to PRE that the PostEQ signal tap and the PreFdr signal tap are the same things. If the Insert is set to POST, this tap will pull before the insert is applied to the channel.
- Post Fader – This tap is affected by everything on the channel including fader movements, mute buttons, DCA levels, Gate, Dynamics EQ and insert.
Pro-Tip: Don’t get the Channel Sends Preconfiguration of a Mixbus and the Output Tap of a physical output confused. You will often times have two different settings between these. A perfect example is a Mixbus that is being used to feed a floor monitor. While the mix bus itself will typically be a Pre Fader configuration for the channel sends, the output tap on the routing screen will be Post-Fader so that if we need to turn the monitor down, you can do so using the mix bus main fader.
What is +M for?
The +M stands for with mutes enabled. “IN/LC, PreEQ, PostEQ, and PreFdr” are taps that are not affected by the mute button due to those being placed before the fader in the signal flow. So, Behringer & Midas decided to add the +M to allow any of these taps to be muted. Where this affects is the direct out of a channel. So if you were feeding the direct out of a Pastor Microphone channel. And you had that direct output tap set to pre fader, if there was feedback and you muted it on the board, it would still be feeding into that direct out.
Set-Up for a Floor Monitor
How would one best set up a feed for a floor monitor? Most of you are going to be running monitors from your front of house desk that is ALSO feeding your Main PA. With this example, you would want to have a MixBus with a channel sends preconfiguration.
To set this up:
- Select the MixBus Master (i.e. MixBus 01)
- Press the ‘VIEW’ button in the ‘Config/Preamp’ section
- Use the 3rd Rotary knob to select ‘Pre Fader’ and depress knob to confirm
- Verify with the ‘Yes’ button
NOTE: This will take the ‘odd & even’ pair of mixbusses and change the channel sends preconfiguration on both mixbusses even if they are not linked. So 1&2 or 3&4 will be changed.
Next, we will take the MixBus 01 and feed that into an output for that monitor. We will want to pick a ‘Post Fader’ output tap so that we can still have volume control over the monitor level. Take note that our output tap and channel sends preconfiguration are different!
To set this up:
- Press the ‘Routing’ button
- Tab over to ‘out 1-16’
- Use the 1st Rotary Knob to select the XLR output you would like to use for this monitor. In my case we are going to use ‘Output 01’
- Use the 4th Rotary Knob to select ‘MixBus 01’ and depress knob to confirm
- Use the 5th Rotary Knob to select ‘Post Fader’ and depress knob to confirm
Set-Up for the P-16M – PreFdr & PreFdr+M
Some of you have a setup using the P-16M wired in-ear monitor systems. These are awesome systems to be able to have the musicians on-stage be able to adjust their own mix. This is an example where changing the output tap for these sends can be beneficial for the band.
We feed the P-16 system via the P-16 or Ultranet tab on your X32 mixer on the routing page. Typically we will send direct channels to the P-16 so that the musicians can mix their own mix of 16 channels for their monitor. You would not want to send the direct out of the channel as ‘Post Fader’, because then as you are adjusting things in the house, you would be affecting the volume in the monitors as well.
This is where one would normally pick ‘Pre-Fader’ so that we can still get the channel processing with the EQ and dynamics, but not have the house mix get in the way of the monitors. Typically, PreFdr is the right send for this, that way even if the channel is muted in the house, a vocalist can say “check check” in their microphone and hear it in their P-16.
If you want to NOT have audio pass to the P-16 when you have a channel muted in the house, select ‘PreFader+M’ which will enable the direct output to be muted when the channel is muted.
Take note!
Make sure when you are setting up your console, that you keep tabs on what you are adjusting! I have seen time and time again of people making a mistake and choosing the wrong one. Fallout 4 bunker mod minecraft.
One last TIP!
Make sure to look at the ‘Sends’ or ‘Config’ tab on the channels, as this will show you how the current channel is set up with all of the pre/post options.
Thanks for reading!
The X32 RACK allows you to monitor audio sources on a set of headphones or monitor speakers when operating the console from a front-of-house position.1. Connect a set of headphones to the ¼' phones jack on the front panel.
2. Alternatively, connect a set of monitors to the ¼' monitor outs on the rear panel.
3. Press the Monitor button.
4. Adjust the 6th encoder to select the audio source for the monitor bus, for example LR PFL (LR Pre-Fader Listen). Panaflex design software, free download 2018. This will output the main LR pre-fader signal to the monitors when no Solo button is selected on any of the channels or buses.
5. Adjust the first encoder to set the level of the monitor signal. Then, adjust the level of the connected headphones and/or monitor using their respective level controls on the X32 RACK front panel.
6. Press the Solo button on any input or output channel to send that channel’s audio to the solo bus. This operation will not affect the mix that the audience is hearing, nor the monitor mix heard by the talent. Input channels take priority over DCAs, DCAs take priority over buses, and buses take priority over main LRC/mono.
X32 Aux Out
7. Press the “Clear Solo” button above the main fader to quickly clear the solo status of any and all channels. This is particularly useful when solo is active on a channel that is not present on the current input layer and you wish to quickly clear its solo status.
Behringer X32 Monitor Routing
The solo bus also has various preferences that can be set using the second encoder, allowing you tailor its operation to your specific working style. Examples include:
1. Use “Exclusive” if you want the act of pressing another solo button to automatically disengage the previous solo. This is useful if you know you will never want to solo more than one channel of material at the same time. In this mode you can press several Solo buttons at the same time to solo the corresponding channels together.
2. Use “Solo Follows Select” if you want the solo selection to automatically follow any channel that you have selected. This allows you to quickly hear the audio of that channel in your headphones when you select it to adjust EQ, compression, etc. Remember that you need to solo a channel first before this function is active.
Behringer X32 Compact Output Routing
3. Use “Select Follows Solo” when you want the reverse to occur: Any channel that is soloed will automatically become the currently selected channel, allowing you quickly make adjustments for any channel you have soloed.
4. Use the “Channel Solo AFL” to listen to the channel signal after the fader and stereo PAN.
5. Use “Mix Bus Solo AFL” to listen to the mix bus signal after the fader and stereo PAN.
6. Use “DCA Group AFL” if you want to put the contents of a soloed DCA group into after-fader listen mode when the solo button is pressed on a DCA channel.
7. “Use Master Fader” option lets you adjust the solo signal on the monitor/headphones with the Master fader on the console.
Note: The master output level cannot be changed in this mode. This mode has primarily been designed for using the X32 RACK as a pure monitor console where the main bus is not used for your PA system.
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