i would love to have a grandma like you , greate video. thank you...

thank you. i have had a x1204 for well over a decade that i used as a PA mixer in my home studio. I sold the house 8 years ago and haven't used it since. Just before December 25 i was asked to supply the sound for our village community lunch, of course i accepted but had forgotten how the x1204 worked. Your video helped a lot !! thanks again

the best explanation I seen yet. Thank you so much!!

Hi Deb Erney. Thank you for your video! 🥳

Nice breakdown. Since I mostly do studio work these days I use my mixer as an interface to go into my computer. I use control room and sub mix outs to go to effects and samplers, and bring their signals back in on main channel. Never enough aux out or effects sends for me!

Brilliant video, really got to the point and helped me understand everything I wanted to know. Thanks!

great video, Thanks from Uruguay!

Thank you Deb, best I have seen so far!

Thanks your videos are so much easier and fun to follow. Very thorough.

Glad i found your channel,its gonna help understand my mixer 👍👍

What a great and straight lesson! Amazing video. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much! That mixer's interface is not so obvious to understand than others that I used before (Mackie, Soundcraft ...) and I was really confused when I tried to send signal to ALT 3-4 with that Behringer. Best wishes!

Nice information and explanation . Well done.

Very clever! I had never considered routing CTRL to the main speakers the audience hears. Thanks!

Thank you so much for this very informative video

Bel video esaustivo, complimenti!

Thank you a lot for your well-explained video! It helps a lot!

🙏incredibly informative and easy to follow, thank you

Thank you for your video. Great explanation!

Thanks for another easy to follow tutorial

Thank you so much for your video. You explained it so well. I was bussy with it the whole day.

Thank you so much mam for your packaged information.

Great video Deb, really covered all my questions about different outputs. Thank you very kindly.

Thank you for your explanation.

Explained very well

Fantastic information thank you!!! 🎼

Thank you! This helped a lot!

Thanks Deb!

Thank you!

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Great Video! Thank you so much! I've already by a mixer qx1204 usb and you save me! tks

Thank you so much

Great video, really easy to understand

Brilliant video. Thanks Deb. Have you happen to have worked on a Zoom Live Track L-12 Mixer? I am a novice with it all. So would be interested in watching that video to learn more.

Hi, I have just bought a pre-owned sister mixer to this (the Xenyx 1204FX) and am trying to work out how best to use it. This video has been really helpful for that, but I am wondering what is the best way to connect to my PA system? I have two speakers, one which is powered and a passive speaker which is powered by other. This means I only have one 1/4 inch input option on the powered speaker, as opposed to being able to connect left out from the mixer to one speaker and right out of the mixer to the other. Any thoughts would be appreciated, thanks.

Excellent!

Wow, thank you this really helped!

Thanks for the informative video. I realize it made several years ago. Question on the color-coded diagram: It shows the mixer being connected to an external Zoom R24 recorder, but the in and out arrows are misleading. It shows the Zoom's mic/instrument inputs being connected to the mixer's three outputs for speaker/pa listening/monitoring. Just to clarify: I presume you connected the Line out jacks of the Zoom to a stereo (left/right) line input on the mixer, which can then have whatever's coming from the Zoom be routed to any of the mixer three outputs. In other words, whatever is connected to the Zoom recorder's inputs is not connected directly to the mixer's outputs (as the diagram would indicate), rather, those inputs can be heard thru the mixer and its outputs via the Zoom line out jacks which serves as the interface between them.

Deb I really enjoyed and learn from your very detailed and explanatory video, I still have one doubt, I use a Mackie 1402-VLZ3 for podcasting interviewing people via Skype, but every time I'm going to record I just unplug the Main out cables that goes to the speakers because I do not know which bottom or knob would silence the speaker and still be able to listen thru my headphones. Any help or solution you may know would be very appreciated. Thanks for what you do.

An excellent explanation of using the outputs on the Behringer QX1204usb. I wonder what advantage the Behringer QX1622usb offers with its Sub outputs instead of the Alt 3/4 on the QX1204usb?

This is an amazing video, I just have a question when you use your headphones do you hear the effects that you set up, because I have a problem, I am using the same Mixer, however on my output behind it I can hear my microphone effects and all, but on the control output and on headphones output I can't seem to hear any of the effects.

This is a great video, very well explained! I have a question for you though. I have this exact mixer and I have it mostly figured out. The one issue I am having is that when I monitor myself using headphones (main mix sent to phones/ctrl rm) and headphones plugged into the phones port, the condenser microphone I use sounds really loud with a ton of ambient noise picked up. The recordings, however, sound rather nice, with almost no ambient noise. I'm glad it's not the other way around, but this makes me not trust the way my microphone sounds on headphones. Curiously, I tried plugging my headphones to the control room outputs, and the sound is heard exactly the way it is recorded. I am now considering using a TRSF stereo to dual 1/4 adapter so I can plug my headphones to the control room outputs, but I'm still annoyed at why the headphones sound so loud on the phones port. Sorry for the long question...

Hi Deb, I have this mixer as well and use it for teaching guitar online. I have my vocal mic on line 1, my guitar signals in stereo on 2 and 3, and a headphone out from my computer into line 5/6. This way I can blend vocal, guitar, and things like backing tracks from KZfaq together and mix it all into Zoom. My output is via USB to Zoom, etc, but also to powered monitors which are connected to the mains via XLR. My issue is that sometimes I would like to mute the monitors without turning them down or unplugging them and listen to the mix on headphones while maintaining the same signal out via USB. Thoughts on achieving this?? Thanks for a great straightforward and informative video!

You are brilliant, not just because you understand it so well, but because you explain it so well. I noticed on another mixer that I have that when I tap my PC speakers out with TRS 3.5mm to stereo into channel on my mixer, verify that I have the full sound out of my PC using headphones to monitor, yet when I try to do a FX Send or Aux send out of the mixer I have a low quality sound which is as if both stereo signals not going out. I don't care about the separation, but I expect all of it to be there since my Aux Out only has one out. This is a new Yamaha, which I think may be a balanced/unbalanced issue. Your thoughts? I was going to go get the Behringer you have in this video, hoping I don't have same issue. I'm compulsive some about dropped sound quality, or partial sound loss.

Than you ✌🏽

Hello Deb, where do I hook up my monitors so I can hear myself through my monitors and my main and be able to send only selected inputs to the monitors?

Hi Deb. I'm so glad I found you ❤... can you tell me please if I can record more then two tracks with behringer 1204 on Logic pro x?

Hi Deb. i was wondering if there was a way to send my microphone to two outs, just the mic alone on the behringer q802usb?

Deb...just got a BEHRINGER 1202 ONTO A b-1 CONDENSER MIC. Your video just demystified the whole '2 track out/control room' thing. Basically I have two stereo channels out, do I not? THANKS again & stay safe dear lady......TJ the DJ...

Thank you very much for this. It was very helpful and taught me some things I wasnt even aware of. Do you have anything available on setting up stage monitors with Behringer mixers?

Hi Deb, nice to meet you, this it's my first time here. I need to kon how to connect my analog equipment trough my xenyx x1832 (compressors, delays, multi fx, reverbs) also I have a ultrapatch behringer and a v amp pro, and a u-phoria umc404hd. Best of my regards. Cristian from argentina

Hi Deb, I have the same mixer of yours. Would I able to plug in passive speaker cables to the control room out directly without amplimer? Thank you very much for your well explained and detail video.

Can you record 2/3 guitars and a keyboard oh and the drummer at the same time Deb? And how would you route it to the pc using reaper or Audacity? I would like to record the band on stage etc. I am eyeing off the Zoom LiveTrak L-12 Digital Podcast Mixer & Recorder Thanks heaps.

I just recently got a Behringer Xenyx X1204USB mixer for my birthday a few days ago. Everything is connected, I’m just trying to figure out, how I can route the audio from my computer into the mixer and back into the computer so people can hear my computer audio like music and such over Skype, teamTalk, etc. I have the inputs and outputs set correctly on my computer as USB audio codec. Is there something I have to enable on my Mixer? Just to be clear, I’m using a Mac for this.

Hey deb so I want to buy presonus live 16 and my question is can I connect 3sets of power studio monitors? I am just a rookie but I want to connect each speaker using balanced cables

Bought one of these to use as a mixer for mulitple wireless mics and putting to three differnt output. One to a Black magic web presentor to livestream the event, to a PA system for the panel and one to a H4n Zoo Digital recorder since I want a clean audio recording of the panel discussion. Can you suggest the best sete up for this. I am a new to thise.

great video, thanks..how would I connect 6 keyboards though ? would I just send them in as mono inputs which I guess comes out of the 2 speakers, so not stereo ?

Thats tuff 👌🏼 question, Is it possible to control the level of each channel for those alt outs is listening to? I see just the "send to alt" buttons but not the level of send on each channel, The doubt in me is because of the typical case in which the musician asks for more volume of something specific.

Can you use a mixer to do the same thing that a di box does? If, for example, you had multiple instruments, say, a classical guitar, a steel string guitar, a mandolin, and a ukulele - my understanding has been that you would ideally have a di box for each one that would run to a balanced input on a mixer. I'm still trying to understand some of this stuff, sorry for my ignorance. Anyway, could I just plug each of these instruments into a small, non powered mixer and then used the outputs of that mixer like a di box that ran to the main mixer? Does that make any sense?

Great video, I learned a ton! The configuration you setup spawned a question though. The output that goes to the crowed is configured to the control room output. You mentioned it would be better to use the main output (XLR). I understand this, but at least with this mixer, it would not work, which is probably why you are not using the main output for the crowd in the first place. Reason beeing, the most versatile output is the control room/headphone output. Here you can add + remove all inputs you have created. In other words, with this mixer, you cannot create: main output, all instruments=> crowd while control room (two instruments only) => band member 1 alt 3/4 (other two instruments) => band member 2 Do you know any mixer that could do that? Preferrably even more mixes, e.g. alt 5/6, if that is a proper term. It would be awesome to have a mixer that allows for creating more mixes that just two and on top making them available individually to the headphone/control room for creating/assembling them without affecting the main mix.

Great video! Can you use XLR main outs R&L on a mixer to connect to 2 guitar amplifiers using XLR to mono cables?

Hi Deb, is it possible to headphone monitor individual channels whilst your mixing , islote a channel to headphone ?

5:00 could you add the USB Input to the control room output with the red button on top? Or would that mute the alt and main mix in the control room output?

so Control Room outs is when you are ready to "go live" and Main Outs is for say private communications and practice?

Hello Deb i am new subscriber on your channel i have a problem i have a xenyx 802 mixer and a sony receiver i hook the mixer main out to receiver cd channel the sounds comes out okay but the mic I don’t hear and when i speak to the mic main mix light green but don’t have sound coming out to the receiver i i am using my mixer and receiver for Karaoke purpose what do you think to that problem thank you

I was wondering with the control room / headphones output is that affected by the status of the faders below it or not?

Can you use control room out and main out at the same time so control room and main area both have the same audio at the same time?

is there a way to get the "2-track" to go out of the "Alt - 3 4"

What if the main outs are TS connectors. Do I just need a TS to XLR converter?

What are those cinch outputs on top of the 1204? There are 6 of them

I play solo acoustic gigs (1 mic, 1 guitar) with only one speaker. Can I output a mono track to only one speaker?

Can i take the ctrl room stereo signal and record it right away? thanks, Levi in sweden

Hi Great video! I have same mixer but it produces same noise as in your video whenever you increases volume Is there any solution for this hisssss noise or I have to live with it! Please need your expertise on this

Hi, im using behringer qx2442usb fx , how do i send internal fx to aux for my stage monitors?

Which outs are best for recording? Going to an audio interface then computer

so your pushing the mute buttons to activate the alt 3-4, do you need to push some thing to switch between mute and alt. My understanding is if you push mute it kills the sound for that channel. So how does that channel send a signal to Alt 3-4. Im a DJ who usually plays along side a sax player and drummer. Sometimes the sax would like more sax on her monitor and the same with the drummer and the dj (plugged into stereo chan 5/6) would like even mix of both sax and drums and Dj together.

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My new 16 channel behringer is playing the CD fine but when I put a new blank when I put a new blank CD in it's not reading when I'm on record CD burner is waiting for some sound but not getting it what do you think is not right

Thank you so much maam, really appreciate. Lol 🇮🇳

Just a bit of knowledge to add: 2:54 the piano sounds weird because you are sending a stereo signal into a mono balanced jack, which you can't do (unless you're going for a crazy weird sound). You can't plug a stereo signal into a balanced jack and get good results UNLESS you set the source of the audio to mono.

How do I add Headphone as monitor?

Can you hook up w computer to this mixer

How to record streaming videos ?

Why do I hear a random crackle when I play back a recorded track??

But, what about tape in and out? How does that work?

How to connect amplifier to a mixer?

XLR hotter than TRS, what does "hotter" means here?

Hey.. Genius.. You have different output.. At the same time.. 😁

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Dear Deb, Thank you for your video, I use this console the same way you do (recording 4 separate channels and want to hear it as well over a P.A. system), but I can't seem to get it right, there must be a setting or two wrong, so, everything I have here in front of me is set up the way you do in your video, now only when I press the button AUX SENDS Solo, I get sound over the PA...is that normal? I cannot see if you have it pressed or not. Thanks, Erik