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FlipsideYear Goes By... (Behringer XR18 Two Years On) — gerenm.photographyWell-nighBlog Galleries Music Contact Menu 701 Franklin Avenue Westminster, MD 21157 (443) 691-2616 the images, words, and music of geren w mortensen jr Your Custom Text HereWell-nighBlog Galleries Music ContactFlipsideYear Goes By... (Behringer XR18 Two Years On) May 14, 2018 Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. This was just planned to be a quick post here, to talk well-nigh how things have been going with my Behringer XR18 digital mixer. Nearly flipside year has passed since I switched from the Mackie DL1608 to a Behringer X-Air XR18, so I've been using it for well-nigh two years now. The last time I wrote well-nigh it, I had assembled a make-shift front-of-house "console" consisting of an Asus touch screen, a keyboard/trackpad from Logitech, and a Raspberry Pi 3b microcomputer. Since then, I've made a few ... improvements. There are now two of the Pi-based touch-screen consoles, in new tailor-made cases, well-constructed with cup holders. The idea is that one is to be used for front-of-house mixing, and the other used as a stage-side monitor mix position. The FOH panel is usually unfluctuating via WiFi, and the stage-side panel hardwired to the router in the system rack. As part of the project, a new system rack has moreover been constructed, with components mounted front and back. The configuration allows all connections for input and output to be on the same side of the rack -- both the mixer "front" and the amplifier "backs". Auxiliary power and network connections are moreover placed stage-side. One "console" sets on the top of the rack, with matching dimensions.I moreover doubled the number of wireless mics. I'm still leery of spending a lot of money on UHF wireless gear, so I purchased flipside pair of the Samson Concert 88 systems, made quite affordable by what I can only seem is an error on the part of Amazon (the 500MHz wreath units were marked lanugo substantially, where the now-discontinued 600MHz units are still at the regular price. In fact, they really shouldn't plane be misogynist for sale at this point, as they're technically no longer legal for purchase. But... I digress...).[UPDATE: The 600MHz units are no longer misogynist at Amazon]The whole system was put to a test this past Saturday on a gig for my band, 7Souls. The mixing system worked flawlessly, supporting both an engineer at the FOH panel and the monitor mixer stage-side with ease -- once we got going. For some reason, I had a difficult time getting the wired console to connect to the mixer. That particular unit sometimes doesn't marching on the first attempt, and I'm thinking I may need to rebuild it. It's moreover possible that I was simply trying to get things running too quickly.To say that I'm still extremely please with the XR18 would be an understatement. It continues to perform flawlessly. I've yet to wits increasingly than a couple glitches, and I'm very pleased with my visualization to move yonder from the Mackie.  In fact, the only real technical issue we faced during the evening was related to the wireless gear. The rack ended up stuff placed up stage right, overdue my position at keyboards. Subsequently, the  wireless mics were projecting their signals yonder from the receivers, resulting in drop-outs as our front-line vocalists moved around. This ways that I'll need to modify the receivers so that they can use a remote antenna system -- my thought is to mount one antenna on each speaker stand. This will indulge me to place the very receiving antennae in a increasingly towardly location. Before mounting the new receivers, I took a squint at how the stock-still antennae are installed.From the looks of the spin board, it looks as if Samson unquestionably had something like this in mind. There are unquestionably solder points on the workbench for antenna connectors. And, there's plenty of space to add professional BNC connectors so the receivers can be fed by an antenna distribution system. The screw in the picture is the stud that mounts the existing antenna, and zone marked CN1 is where I think Samson had possible intended "bigger and better" antenna to connect. The question mark is the correct value for the R39 resistor, when coupling the receiver to a standard 50ohm UHF antenna. [UPDATE: The antenna system is washed-up and ready for the road. I discovered that my two older Concert88 receiver spin boards are completely variegated from the two new units, so I had to do a lot of improvising to get the new wiring done.Increasinglylater, maybe....]The other shortcoming of the PA, as it exists, has to do with stage monitoring. 7Souls is a seven-piece band. Ideally, each member should get their own monitor mix. Right now, I only have two channels of unfurling for stage monitors, and there are only six Aux outputs from the board. As of this past week, the drummer and I are using wired in-ear monitors, since we don't move virtually the stage. This past weekend, we ran two monitor mixes into four wedge monitors for everyone else. In a couple of weeks, I'm planning to increase the number of misogynist monitor amp channels to at least four, which will help a lot -- at least until increasingly wreath members are worldly-wise to sire in-ear monitoring.Planeso, there still won't be quite unbearable mixes for everyone to have their own mix using the conventional Aux outputs. While the wordplay is to expand into Ultranet monitoring, the forfeit of entry could be relatively upper -- although, now that I think of it, the P16-M personal mixer is really not much higher than a vital wireless IEM package. I could perhaps grab one for myself, and use it to momentum my ear-buds. Since Ultranet is completely separate from the rest of the mixer, that would self-ruling up an Aux bus for use by flipside wreath member. What the heck, right? It's not like I'm not fully single-minded to living in the Behringer infrastructure at this point.... Guess I'll just add something else to the shopping list!And, marrow line? 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