5:25 was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Tonight at a gig I asked the much more experienced sound engineer who was running sound for the band how I can EQ the left and right Mains separately with pink noise. He told me I needed to route the left and right output to 2 stereo matrices. On the first I only use the left side and on the second I only use the right side that way I have a parametric EQ that I can use to tune the system instead of using the much more simple EQ on the main mix fader that affects both left and right. I asked him how to do this because I noticed today when he was tuning the system that the left and right main speakers sound very different from each other. I don't have access to the dbx driverack so I'm going to have to adjust the EQ on the board itself. Thank you for showing how to route it properly
My god FINALLY! A clear explanation on what Matrices are! I couldn't grasp the necessity of the Matrix concept in Live mixing since in a DAW, you can send busses to other busses and so on. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
This is what old school UA-cam felt like. Handheld cams in a room having some super smart person teach me things exactly the way I needed to learn. No over-produced company training videos that don't actually teach you anything.
I've been mixing in analog mixers and DAWs for as long as I can remember and I just tried an M32 today; the manual gives ZERO explanation on matrices. Thanks for this video.
Wow. Thank you for a very extensive tutorial. I’ll definitely follow your page to learn this mixer inside out. Not many people are good at dumbing it down for a newbie to understand.
Just wanted to add that if you use matrices for crossovers, you don't have to use the simple hi pass/low pass functions. You can choose from various Butterworth and LR filters on bands 2 thru 5. Just choose the desired type instead of "PEQ."
Excellent video, thanks! Still getting my head around understanding this thing about digital mixers, channel, bus, matrix and all the options of routing and tweaking ... my head is still in analog and it has issues following the flow, I understand to a certain point and then I go blimp :) ... we just bought a Yamaha DM3 and will have the chance to practise on it.
Routing-> card outputs Assign card 1-8 for example to out 1-8 or to ultranet 1-8 and then on the out page or on the ultranet page you can assign output 1 to matrix 1 (Doesn't have to be 1-8, any number) This is how you send a matrix out of the usb card
I setup my livestream mix on Mix Bus 9 & 10. If I link them, I will select 1 and hit the matrix button and then fader flip and then increase the volume for the matrix fader ...right?
My sound engineer is using matrix for our church livestream…however the bass is super low in the livestream…He said if I turn up the gain or slide the bass guitar channel up, it won’t affect the volume in the live. I’m guessing the di box I’m using is sending poor signal to the matrix..what do I have to do to turn up the bass guitar volume only in the live??? By the way, he created a bus guitar bus mix too..we use the behRinger x32 too
So can this be done with the X air either 16 or 12 and also how do you do this in Mixing Station. Great video man you always explain a lot of stuff and death pretty cool.
@FeedbackEntertainment no the x air series doesn't have matrix unfortunately. On mixing station you can click on the LR and mkve to the sends tab and send it to the matrix from there
Great video Daniel, very informative. Do you know if mute works on a matrix as well as channels do with buses? I mean, if I have a bus connected to a speaker on stage for the singer, who is send also in a matrix connected to a speaker for my reference, if I mute a bus in my matrix send will it still be active on stage ?
It depends on the tap points On the out page by default the tap point for the busses will be post fader It means that the signal going out of the bus is affected by the fader position and the mute You also have a prefader tap and prefader + mute If you select the prefader without the mute then regardless of the bus fader position or the mute, the speaker will still get signal from the bus Then you have the inputs taps for the matrix where you can decide if the fader of the bus itself affects the send level to the matrix or not Then you have the mute button in the sends tab of the bus. That mute is like unassign it removes the bust from the matrix without needing to turn down the send level So if you mute it inside the sends tab it will only be muted for that matrix but if you press the mute button on the bus it may or may not be muted depending on the tap points
@@MohammadSalah1979 most of the people who watch my videos are in the USA and other English speaking countries so it doesn't make any sense to speak in a different language
As i sent the question about the Jmix 8 I realized another way to achieve the same result. Just use One Matrix Mix the send the Main L/R and the M/C to the that matrix, Set the crossovers on the main and mono then sent that Matrix to a pair of stereo ouputs..... But the question still remains, can u send multiple matrixes to one stereo output? With crossovers ofcourse?
I have mixbuses set up for our in ear monitors, 7 mix buses total. However, I’m not able to send those buses to the fx bus (obviously, because you can’t send a bus to a bus). Could I use this matrix to send the mixbus which I have the in ears assigned to, to the fx bus? I’d like to do this so I could add reverb to the vocals in the in ear mix, as the vocalists are only hearing their dry signal. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
the reverb sound is on the fx return channel not the fx bus. just send your vocals to the reverb like you would normally do (or to another reverb if they want something different in their ears) and then send the return channel of that rever to their in ear bus. on the Aux FX layer you will find channels called Fx1L Fx1R, Fx2L Fx2R....this is what you want to send to the monitors
this is why PreSonus is the best you can send channels and subgroups to the matrix and the subgroups and matrix have their own controls independent of the aux and you can convert an aux to a matrix
Hello there is a way to explain with the configuration Dl 32 and M32c with especially the editor M32 or Mixing Station please thank you Bonjour il y a t-il moyen d'expliquer avec la configuration Dl 32 et M32c avec surtout l’éditeur M32 ou Mixing Station svp merci
Daniel, can you talk about sending matrix to aes a or b. My question is really about differentiating in the routing the physical output. Also, if you need more outputs than 16, can you route some to your board and some to your snake? Like if your using matrices and iems it's easy to go over 16 outputs. Thank you, Mike
Yes. By default what goes out of your console and stage box is the outputs 1-16 that you can find in the OUT page, there you can decide if you want to send out a channel, a bus, a matrix... if you used all 16 outputs of the OUT page, you still have the ULTRANET page with 16 more outputs than you can assign to whatever you want. What goes out of the physical xlr outputs on the back of your console is decided in the XLR page. By default, it's assigned to the 16 outputs of the out page You can assign outputs 1-8 to p16 1-8 and now the first 8 outputs from the ultranet page are going out of the first 8 xlr outputs on the back of the console Same goes for stage boxes On the AES50 A or B page you can assign outputs to OUT or P16 or user outputs an then configure it in the user section
I believe you are limited to just 16 physical outputs on this M32 and the X32 regardless of having a stagebox or not. You can sacrifice your effects channels to take advantage of all 16... You want more outputs you have to spend money on bigger boards. To sometime maximize my outputs for Iem's and things Ill use my aux outs for my MainL/R an M/C outs. The least inexpensive way to have more ouputs on these 2 boards is to buy P16 personal monitoring systems. Those units utlize the ultranet port and represents as seperate outputs literally adding outputs to your board by daisy chaining them via cat5e cables. Mini mixing boards. That's the only work around or more money on a bigger board. Alot of people are unaware of this.
I have a pair of Evox j8's which only takes one input per side for the tops and the 15in woofer, so it has a built in crossover (2way). But what if I wanted to control the sub frequencies seperately the same way I would do using seperate tops for mains and the M/C output for external sub woofers with its own signal? Is it possible to send multiple matrix mixes to the same output? For instance, Matrix 1&2 for the low pass to output 1&2 then Matrix 3&4 for the Mids and highs to outputs 1&2. That should work if the crossover points are at the right frequencies correct? So again my question is, when using a speaker with a crossover already built in, whether it be two way or three way and takes one signal, can u send multiple (crossed over) matrixes to the same stereo outputs for seperate control if u wanted to? I have various tops and subs and always mix using Main L/R and M/C for the subs so I'm curious? I never use my Jmix 8's for mains so I never had a reason to try this.
You can send multiple busses to the same matrix but each matrix can only have 1 physical output If you were to assign multiple matrices to the same xlr output then what's the point of using a matrix in the first place The point of using a matrix is to control different speakers But if the speaker has a woofer and a midrange drive and a tweet all in the same cabinet and only takes 1analog input you cannot control the different drivers separately
Bus to matrix and bus to LR at the same time yes you can But if you mean send the matrix to the LR no that's not possible because the LR is a bus and a matrix cannot go to a bus
SO basically you have use the output 1 to output 6 you may no longer be able to use those output for you Bus 1 to bus 6 right as it is being used and assign to the matrix...
it doesn't need to be 1-6 you can assign the matrices to any output from the OUT page but to answer your question, yes if you used an output for a matrix you cannot also use it for a bus at the same time
Hi man can you help me please ? Do you know how to route one external synth to ableton live with a x32 behringer? Please help me I can pay you if you help me for real. Please get in touch I need it a lot. ❤
Omg that was painful as fuck. But THEEE ABSOLUTE EASIEST I HAVE EVER HEARD!!! Can you just slow down when you speak. You have a a great voice and tome and your English good....I find it hard to stay with you at times....so much I have to rewind your video...A+ content tho!!!!
@umuhungu201 the point is speaker management. You can send your main LR mix to different matrices and connect them to different speakers, subs, front fills, delays..and eq the speakers appropriately
BEWARE NOTE: Behringer has a major problem with its products documentation manuals in them using proprietary PDF X software, just has a nice long email session with them and this is my findings response: I believe the problem is you are using a proprietary PDF X software and it is a password protected doc. Most all pdf docs will open in acrobat pro and have full edit, but yours does not and has a password protection on if. I do not use any other PDF creation software, do to them not having the functions that Adobe Acrobat has and does such as copy, scan and insert functions that all others do not have. SO whoever created this manual in PDF X software, password protected this and all your other PDF docs created by it. SO yes your downloads for manuals are password protected by its creators. In conclusion this is a major problem, so no one can copy text or pics to create quick reference user notes to learn on using behringer products.
5:25 was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! Tonight at a gig I asked the much more experienced sound engineer who was running sound for the band how I can EQ the left and right Mains separately with pink noise. He told me I needed to route the left and right output to 2 stereo matrices. On the first I only use the left side and on the second I only use the right side that way I have a parametric EQ that I can use to tune the system instead of using the much more simple EQ on the main mix fader that affects both left and right. I asked him how to do this because I noticed today when he was tuning the system that the left and right main speakers sound very different from each other. I don't have access to the dbx driverack so I'm going to have to adjust the EQ on the board itself. Thank you for showing how to route it properly
I like the way how you explain. Simple to the point and answering questions before I can ask them!
My god FINALLY! A clear explanation on what Matrices are! I couldn't grasp the necessity of the Matrix concept in Live mixing since in a DAW, you can send busses to other busses and so on. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
This is what old school UA-cam felt like. Handheld cams in a room having some super smart person teach me things exactly the way I needed to learn. No over-produced company training videos that don't actually teach you anything.
I've been mixing in analog mixers and DAWs for as long as I can remember and I just tried an M32 today; the manual gives ZERO explanation on matrices. Thanks for this video.
The most clear definition of Matrix, thank you
One of my favorite engineering teachers 👏🏾
Teaches with such clarity
Great great great! Congrats and thanks
Wow. Thank you for a very extensive tutorial. I’ll definitely follow your page to learn this mixer inside out. Not many people are good at dumbing it down for a newbie to understand.
Excellent explanation of such a confusing topic! This helped me a lot, thank you!
You have that analytic brain the reason you can explain the concept so clearly! Thanks for your videos.
you are really a GEM my brother, more power! Thank you, this really helps me a LOT. The way you explain is very comprehensive and easy to follow.
Best video on matrixes yet! Thank you!
Fantastic stuff! Every minute is really informative, especially coming to this mixer from other boards.
Very well explained!
Best review on matrix now I understand
Holy crap, very informative, thanks so much!!
Subscribed and will watch everything else you have on m32 🤙
Thanks for the information.
Extremely helpful and very clear. Thank you Daniel.
Thanks very much!
You're a really good teacher
The best channel for ths mixer
Thank you for this video explanation..!! 💯
Just wanted to add that if you use matrices for crossovers, you don't have to use the simple hi pass/low pass functions. You can choose from various Butterworth and LR filters on bands 2 thru 5. Just choose the desired type instead of "PEQ."
Thanks🤗
Excellent video, thanks! Still getting my head around understanding this thing about digital mixers, channel, bus, matrix and all the options of routing and tweaking ... my head is still in analog and it has issues following the flow, I understand to a certain point and then I go blimp :) ... we just bought a Yamaha DM3 and will have the chance to practise on it.
Thank you very much for this wonderful explanation❤
I love this, well explained
omg. Best vid ever. Straight to the point. Thank you Thank you!!!
Great video thank you for the indepth explanation
Great explanation. Cheers!
Excellent video
Thanks david !
Perfect and clear as always ..
An another video .. please
Thanks for posting this, great information!
Super tuto, very clear, thank you !
Thank you!
Great video. Thanks!
Great video, the matrix strips are great for recordings.
Great lesson
How do I route a matrix to the usb output on the back of the board?
Routing-> card outputs
Assign card 1-8 for example to out 1-8 or to ultranet 1-8 and then on the out page or on the ultranet page you can assign output 1 to matrix 1
(Doesn't have to be 1-8, any number)
This is how you send a matrix out of the usb card
I setup my livestream mix on Mix Bus 9 & 10. If I link them, I will select 1 and hit the matrix button and then fader flip and then increase the volume for the matrix fader ...right?
@@BrotherMiguelRodriguez yes
@@danielkharrat I’m not sure what I did but now I’m not getting any sound out of the usb
@@BrotherMiguelRodriguez routing -> card outputs page
Look what is assigned there
Thank you
My sound engineer is using matrix for our church livestream…however the bass is super low in the livestream…He said if I turn up the gain or slide the bass guitar channel up, it won’t affect the volume in the live. I’m guessing the di box I’m using is sending poor signal to the matrix..what do I have to do to turn up the bass guitar volume only in the live??? By the way, he created a bus guitar bus mix too..we use the behRinger x32 too
Amazing 👍
So can this be done with the X air either 16 or 12 and also how do you do this in Mixing Station. Great video man you always explain a lot of stuff and death pretty cool.
@FeedbackEntertainment no the x air series doesn't have matrix unfortunately. On mixing station you can click on the LR and mkve to the sends tab and send it to the matrix from there
How do I get the change the “pre/post” on SENDS to post fader… it’s done on the routing side
Select the bus
Go to the Sends section
Hit the down arrow to get to the second page
You can change the tap point from there
Great video Daniel, very informative. Do you know if mute works on a matrix as well as channels do with buses? I mean, if I have a bus connected to a speaker on stage for the singer, who is send also in a matrix connected to a speaker for my reference, if I mute a bus in my matrix send will it still be active on stage ?
It depends on the tap points
On the out page by default the tap point for the busses will be post fader
It means that the signal going out of the bus is affected by the fader position and the mute
You also have a prefader tap and prefader + mute
If you select the prefader without the mute then regardless of the bus fader position or the mute, the speaker will still get signal from the bus
Then you have the inputs taps for the matrix where you can decide if the fader of the bus itself affects the send level to the matrix or not
Then you have the mute button in the sends tab of the bus. That mute is like unassign it removes the bust from the matrix without needing to turn down the send level
So if you mute it inside the sends tab it will only be muted for that matrix but if you press the mute button on the bus it may or may not be muted depending on the tap points
@@danielkharrat All Clear! That's the best explanation that anyone could ever give. Thank you again!!!
Enta from lebanon bro
I just got this question for you Dan...what's the function of the Mix bus?
Take in multiple signals from multiple channels and combine all of them into one signal that goes out of 1 output
شرح جميل وعاشت الايادي بس ياريت لو بالعربية حتى يستفادون منك اكثر عدد ممكن وشكرا لجهودك والله يعطيك الف عافية🙏
You can send me a message on Instagram if you want an explanation in arabic
@@danielkharrat I understand you in English but there is some people thay don’t know English 🙏🏼 and i will make follow in instgram also
@@MohammadSalah1979 most of the people who watch my videos are in the USA and other English speaking countries so it doesn't make any sense to speak in a different language
@@danielkharrat okay
@@danielkharrat how about the effect how you can send it to the channel for Mic or Tabla there is no any video about it
As i sent the question about the Jmix 8 I realized another way to achieve the same result. Just use One Matrix Mix the send the Main L/R and the M/C to the that matrix, Set the crossovers on the main and mono then sent that Matrix to a pair of stereo ouputs..... But the question still remains, can u send multiple matrixes to one stereo output? With crossovers ofcourse?
No you can send multiple busses to the same matrix but you cannot send multiple matrices to the same physical output
@@danielkharrat Ok my brother I appreciate your feedback. Your awesome too. Keep up the good work
I have mixbuses set up for our in ear monitors, 7 mix buses total. However, I’m not able to send those buses to the fx bus (obviously, because you can’t send a bus to a bus). Could I use this matrix to send the mixbus which I have the in ears assigned to, to the fx bus? I’d like to do this so I could add reverb to the vocals in the in ear mix, as the vocalists are only hearing their dry signal. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
the reverb sound is on the fx return channel not the fx bus. just send your vocals to the reverb like you would normally do (or to another reverb if they want something different in their ears) and then send the return channel of that rever to their in ear bus. on the Aux FX layer you will find channels called Fx1L Fx1R, Fx2L Fx2R....this is what you want to send to the monitors
Sir smart v8 connection routing please
I don't have smaart so unfortunately i cannot give you an accurate answer to that
this is why PreSonus is the best you can send channels and subgroups to the matrix and the subgroups and matrix have their own controls
independent of the aux and you can convert an aux to a matrix
Hello there is a way to explain with the configuration Dl 32 and M32c with especially the editor M32 or Mixing Station please thank you Bonjour il y a t-il moyen d'expliquer avec la configuration Dl 32 et M32c avec surtout l’éditeur M32 ou Mixing Station svp merci
Yes i will publish a video about that very soon
@@danielkharrat thank you very much good Night
Daniel, can you talk about sending matrix to aes a or b. My question is really about differentiating in the routing the physical output. Also, if you need more outputs than 16, can you route some to your board and some to your snake? Like if your using matrices and iems it's easy to go over 16 outputs. Thank you, Mike
Yes. By default what goes out of your console and stage box is the outputs 1-16 that you can find in the OUT page, there you can decide if you want to send out a channel, a bus, a matrix... if you used all 16 outputs of the OUT page, you still have the ULTRANET page with 16 more outputs than you can assign to whatever you want.
What goes out of the physical xlr outputs on the back of your console is decided in the XLR page. By default, it's assigned to the 16 outputs of the out page
You can assign outputs 1-8 to p16 1-8 and now the first 8 outputs from the ultranet page are going out of the first 8 xlr outputs on the back of the console
Same goes for stage boxes
On the AES50 A or B page you can assign outputs to OUT or P16 or user outputs an then configure it in the user section
@@danielkharrat thank you.
I believe you are limited to just 16 physical outputs on this M32 and the X32 regardless of having a stagebox or not. You can sacrifice your effects channels to take advantage of all 16... You want more outputs you have to spend money on bigger boards. To sometime maximize my outputs for Iem's and things Ill use my aux outs for my MainL/R an M/C outs. The least inexpensive way to have more ouputs on these 2 boards is to buy P16 personal monitoring systems. Those units utlize the ultranet port and represents as seperate outputs literally adding outputs to your board by daisy chaining them via cat5e cables. Mini mixing boards. That's the only work around or more money on a bigger board. Alot of people are unaware of this.
Sorry my bad. Your limited to 16 Mixbuses but u can still use the ultranet for 16 other routing options. But they won't be Mixbuses.
Can you clear mu doubt? Coz im new to the industry.... How to assign mix 1 goes to output mix 2 goes to output to and matrix outs and mc and main LR 🥲
You do that in the routing menu -> OUT page
@@danielkharrat thank you ❤
great video. Too hard gate btw xD
I have a pair of Evox j8's which only takes one input per side for the tops and the 15in woofer, so it has a built in crossover (2way). But what if I wanted to control the sub frequencies seperately the same way I would do using seperate tops for mains and the M/C output for external sub woofers with its own signal? Is it possible to send multiple matrix mixes to the same output? For instance, Matrix 1&2 for the low pass to output 1&2 then Matrix 3&4 for the Mids and highs to outputs 1&2. That should work if the crossover points are at the right frequencies correct? So again my question is, when using a speaker with a crossover already built in, whether it be two way or three way and takes one signal, can u send multiple (crossed over) matrixes to the same stereo outputs for seperate control if u wanted to? I have various tops and subs and always mix using Main L/R and M/C for the subs so I'm curious? I never use my Jmix 8's for mains so I never had a reason to try this.
You can send multiple busses to the same matrix but each matrix can only have 1 physical output
If you were to assign multiple matrices to the same xlr output then what's the point of using a matrix in the first place
The point of using a matrix is to control different speakers
But if the speaker has a woofer and a midrange drive and a tweet all in the same cabinet and only takes 1analog input you cannot control the different drivers separately
is it possible to send busses to a matrix and then just go to the main LR?
Bus to matrix and bus to LR at the same time yes you can
But if you mean send the matrix to the LR no that's not possible because the LR is a bus and a matrix cannot go to a bus
SO basically you have use the output 1 to output 6 you may no longer be able to use those output for you Bus 1 to bus 6 right as it is being used and assign to the matrix...
it doesn't need to be 1-6 you can assign the matrices to any output from the OUT page but to answer your question, yes if you used an output for a matrix you cannot also use it for a bus at the same time
You could send those matrices to aux outs to free up the xlr outs for monitors, etc.
I have M32r Live
Hi man can you help me please ? Do you know how to route one external synth to ableton live with a x32 behringer? Please help me I can pay you if you help me for real. Please get in touch I need it a lot. ❤
If you're plugging the synth into the 1/4" aux inputs go to the routing menu -> card page and assign 1-8 (or any other block) to AuxIn 1-6/TB
Omg that was painful as fuck. But THEEE ABSOLUTE EASIEST I HAVE EVER HEARD!!! Can you just slow down when you speak. You have a a great voice and tome and your English good....I find it hard to stay with you at times....so much I have to rewind your video...A+ content tho!!!!
Morpheus:…. What iiiis the matrix? How does it feel to be in the matrix?….. tumbling Down the Rabbit hole? …
still now i don't get the point of matrix
@@umuhungu201 it's just an extra chance to do something to the signal before sending it out
@@danielkharrat but you can control what to sent in bus and you can even EQ the bus. so what's the point?
@umuhungu201 the point is speaker management. You can send your main LR mix to different matrices and connect them to different speakers, subs, front fills, delays..and eq the speakers appropriately
@@danielkharrat does Matrix have physical output pot?
@@umuhungu201 you can assign a matrix to an output in the OUT page
BEWARE NOTE: Behringer has a major problem with its products documentation manuals in them using proprietary PDF X software, just has a nice long email session with them and this is my findings response: I believe the problem is you are using a proprietary PDF X software and it is a password protected doc. Most all pdf docs will open in acrobat pro and have full edit, but yours does not and has a password protection on if. I do not use any other PDF creation software, do to them not having the functions that Adobe Acrobat has and does such as copy, scan and insert functions that all others do not have. SO whoever created this manual in PDF X software, password protected this and all your other PDF docs created by it. SO yes your downloads for manuals are password protected by its creators. In conclusion this is a major problem, so no one can copy text or pics to create quick reference user notes to learn on using behringer products.