Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Behringer X32

I know I am a little late to the game on reviewing the Behringer X32 but I have been a huge fan of this line of consoles for over a year now!  In my opinion, this line of consoles literally changed the game of quality audio.  You can get the X32, X32 Compact, X32 Producer, X32 Rack, X32 Core and soon the X18.  All of which use the same concept and have most of the same features, just less analog inputs.

Like anything, there are parts that I don't like but they are so minor that I believe they do not really matter.  I also believe that this line of consoles are perfect for churches.

Lets start off with what I don't like....

I am not the biggest fan of the iPad app.  Not really the functionality of the app, just the flow.  It is a little odd at first but there is so much in the app that once you learn it, you can literally do anything from the app that you can do on the console.  And now with version 2.0 the app seems better!  I still wish the EQ portion was a little more user friendly... (I really like the Mackie DL1608 version of EQ)

I wish I could pair odd even or even odd channels, but if I really care that much I could simply soft patch the channels to an odd even pair!

 Probably the biggest thing I love and yet don't love about the board is the versatility...  You can set it up to do anything you want in many different ways to make it super easy to use on a regular basis.  But, if you don't know what you are doing when you set it up, you will cause yourself a lot of extra work for nothing.


What I love about it!

Compressors, Gates, 8 Stereo Effects, Ducking, Keying, Remote Gain Control, Scenes, Assignable Encoders and Buttons, Motorized Faders, Recording Straight to USB on the Console, Multi-track recording, and the list goes on...  This board gives you the tools that used to cost thousands and thousands of dollars and its all in one console.  It has a great clean sound, and is incredibly useful!

After all that I really really love the price!!!!!  You can get all this for $2,800 or less street price! It is incredible that all this is cheap enough for anyone to afford!

All in all I love this board and think that they really changed the game for live sound. I would not hesitate to recommend this to anyone!

Read more about it here!  Behringer X32