"Gain is not volume control " it really ,THANK YOU!

ROFL. I’ve been running FOH at churches and on staff for almost 20 years. I’m so blessed you started this video out with the water line/faucet thought process..! I prayed about how to teach others, and started using this type of example about 8 to 10 years ago. May God richly use you to continue to teach others how to mix sound correctly for church..!! When we mix sound for a service, we aren’t actually back stage or behind the scenes; we are literally becoming the means of how clearly the attendees hear the Word of God preached and taught..!

Thanks for pressing that point about gain staging every time you start a mix. My pet peeve is hearing singers say that I should be able to “set it and forget it” (they want to show up at start time or later-🤮).

Simply put… gain deals with input signal (microphones, instruments, etc) into an audio interface or mixer and volume deals with output signal (speakers etc) leaving the interface or mixer. Thanks for the insight and knowledge! 👍🏾

It's also important to note that setting the level coming out of the instrument itself (if available) as hot as you can without distorting is just as important as setting the gain level coming in to your mixer. If it's not hot enough, you will have to turn your gain up even more to compensate, and that will increase your noise level.

Well that was incredibly helpful and refreshingly concise. Thank you.

Best simple lesson ever! Thanks kade

Thanks! This is the most practically helpful video I've yet seen on mixing for live sound! Lee.

This is the best description of gain 😎

This was helpful. I'll definitely be passing this video on to our new sound techs.

Woow thanks brother May gob bless you, very usefull love from srilanka🇱🇰

Wow thanks for yr videos.I been bands most my life and was always told to ALWAYS run Amps wide open lol..I just replaced my Drum PA amp with a bigger Amp and was searching to see if it was ok to turn the Amp down (choke lol) . This and yr other Amp level video really cleared that up for me. Much appreciated 🙏

Thanks for the straightforward, simple explanation. I really liked the faucet analogy. It can be tough to find helpful content for newbies like myself.

My master looks peaked out all the time in Pro Tools for our livestream...still trying to figure out why this is. I will be looking at gain in the tracks as you said. Thank you!!

Eye opener to me❤

Have a question. Different instruments are used in the keys for different songs. For example , trumpet is being used for a particular song. In that case the amount of sound coming into the mixer is more . So di I need to reduce the gain when the keyboard player uses trumpet as the instrument ?

AHHHHHH. So. I should be sending my dj board to the "line" inputs so only the board is effecting the total output of the signal. Correct? I get a bunch of changes in clarity when I go dj(xlr main out) to channels 15-16 on the xr18. I'm assuming this is right, I'm going to try it out, but thanks regardless! I might have solved the problem.

Easy instruction ever Thank you

God bless you brother for educating the body of Christ. I have very little knowledge of the Behringer X32 compact. My church is very small and is especially affected by the Covid Virus. I have to take up the mantle. For the past3-4 weeks there is no audio feed leaving the X32 to the 3 floor monitors. The Monitors have juice but no audio sound. What could be the problems? Thank you and may God bless you.

Great video thanks 👍

Freaking fantastic, practical video bro!

Very informative, thanks Kade.

Great Video. Love all you are producing. And the cheat sheets are the best!

Gracias

Awesome thank you so much!!!

Is there a trim control on the x32?

My drums hit the yellow spot on the mixer, whereas the keys and the guitars don't hit that much but they do are audible out. should I decrease the fader and set the gain to the level that all the input levels are equal or should i just look at the output of what I am able to hear?

wow! you the man, well said man.

Great tips man!

So how loud do we have to put the instruments volumes like yhe piano and all the stuff... should we put it all the way up and then do gain?

Great advice. One question though. In your downloadable you start with: "While the musician is singing/playing with 'live performance' energy..." Where does one find the magic unicorn that practices/sound checks at "live performance energy"? 🤣🤣🤣

Setting gain for every instrument or vocal 1:41

To the point very clear, but my mixer doesn't have separate channel gain meters.

Is the X32 significantly different than other mixers? Generally you'd want to get as close to 0db as possible for the best quality signal. Anything above 0db will cause clipping so if something is too dynamic you'd have to be careful, but I am very curious as to why -18db is your recommendation. Thanks!

Thanks for the informative video. Like you said, setting up gain is one of the most important parts when mixing. This video made me curious about your channel and after taking a look at some other videos, I decided to subscribe your channel. I also want to point out something about units. When we talk about -18 on the meter, it is supposed to be -18 dBFS (dB Full Scale). Not -18 dB. For example, 0 dBFS corresponds to maximum possible digital level of sound. Therefore, the signals above 0 dBFS would get clipped. In my opininon, as there are more than one decibel units such as dBm, dBu, dBV and so on, we should be more careful about units. Thanks for the sheets as well.

Same Therory for live stream ? Also, the download email is not working. I’ve had no issues with other resources from you, but this one does not work.

Hi thanks for the great videos. I set the gain as you say every night but find once the singer starts there's not enough volume so i push fader up which then causes clipping so i reduce gain which causes loss of volume again. I find it a vicious circle. Plesse help??

HI Kade! We use the Playback app to run tracks. We run it from an ipad Pro through the headphone jack and into two D/I boxes for a stereo in-ear mix. I've noticed that some tracks run hotter than others which makes setting gain tricky. Would you suggest setting gain on a per song basis and then riding the fader up and down so as to not impact the mix negatively? Open to your thoughts...

Awesome

I did the same thing,I tot I was wrong to pushed the solo button to check input signal level...

I'm still confused. I turned the volume all the way down and tried to set the gain like you described and the meter didn't show anything until I brought up the volume. So how do you set the volume and gain since both will change the meter readings?

Disclaimer - not for church only

Hi kade, or anybody, when setting gain, where should I place the fader? At unity or turn it down completely? Thanks

How do you get your track to be loud if your sounds are sitting at -18db?

Hi Which mixer is best when it comes to effects yamaha or soundcraft?

Great video - My digital mixer (Soundcraft UI24r) does not have green/orange/red lights just numbers. Is there a guideline I should use like -12 or -9??

Thank you for the video kade! Can i get some advice for my problem? I use Qu 24 mixer. I use it in a small room, when i set the gain about 0 and when i raise the fader about -30, it's already loud. Can i get some advice about this thing? Thank you

My mixer is having a peak indicator on every channel strip. What will happen when one of the channel strip peak indicator blinks.

My wireless mic receiver (Phenyx Pro PTU-5000-2H2B) and my analog mixer (Behringer 1204USB) both have gain controls on them. Is it just the same process X2 or something trickier. Thank you !

I was always a believer that before you adjust your gain you should have you fader set to unity. I was always if the belief that all faders should live around unity. Am I wrong?

And can you tell me how to Mix a soundboard analog one superbly with a nice output without peak or unwanted noises please, we are using an analog in our church thats y

The gains on all the inputs are set as you describe but when I select the main output I see clipping on the gain meter even though the output meter on the display doesn't show clipping. I'm aware of bus gains but not a main output gain. How do I eliminate this distortion?

Would this method not affect feedback? When we start moving up the faders

Great tips, please include the Indonesian translation

What about instruments with a really weak signal? I find that acoustic guitar is really difficult to get up into that -18, -12dB range. I often just don't worry about it just because I'm not really looking for an acoustic driven sound. Any thoughts on that?

Great instruction. But, why do we need to, according to the cheat sheet, set everything back to default, all EQ , all aux sends (monitor levels), turn down fader, bypass any external processing? This is a deal-breaker for me. Too much to reset and too much to remember where I had it.

Hi Kade, why gain interferes with the speakers when its set high with the fader? What are the best levels for both gain and fader?

would it work the same when have a dedicated mixer to send signal to logic for livestream?

Nice. 👍☝️

Hi, why do I have my sound of power mixer going off when volume increased please??

thanks so much.........I always did it wrong

how do i set my high and low on the keyboard combo or amp.?

When I push the gain to around 2 o clock for vocals for the desired -18 it makes things around very loud as well (flipping through bible, drinking water, etc. is this normal ?

I don’t have lights on my mixer.

Is the loudest supposed to be -18/-12 or just the normal speaking 🗣?

If my vocal doesn't rise to that point and my instruments can, what I can do?

Y en la XR18?

where is the gain cheat sheet?

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