Behringer X32 - How to send Reverb to a Monitor

A common request from vocalists is how to have reverb in their floor monitor or IEM mix. Having reverb in their mix can help them feel less isolated when using IEM's and can make their mix more pleasant to listen to.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:21 Basic Showfile Setup
01:07 Step 1 - Setting Up Sending the Mic to the Reverb
02:20 Recap on How Effects Routing Works
02:36 Step 2 - Routing the Reverb Return to the Monitor
04:26 Individual Reverbs for Multiple Singers
04:55 Conclusion

[@danielmorales711]

I'm a drummer. I love reverb on snare and all vocals and pads and pianos

[@BrianMDPhD]

Thank you so much for this video! I had a talent last night asking for reverb on monitor on an M32 and for the life of me I couldn’t figure it out.

[@carlosmayorca4642]

Hi Drew. Amazing video as always! I had to do this for an IEM mix a few days ago in a show; I had to do it on a rush so I ended up just inserting the verb on the bus for the IEM. Thanks for explaining the most efficient way to do this. Now I know how to do this next time.

[@marshlandstudios1]

One of the best channels! Thanks Drew!

[@PaulPaul-vj2vx]

Just starting with the x32 … your channel is very helpful! Thanks!

[@mickeymiguel2726]

Excellent teacher

[@preshkeyz]

Thank you for this video.

[@cpope3391]

GREAT and timely info...! thank you...

[@vy4ngaming311]

Great Video!!

[@heathercollins4432]

Thanks, Drew!!!!! 🤩

[@Froggynu]

Thank you for the Video i have the been tryin to prevent the bleeding from the FOH from doin that and your video just showed me the best way to solve the problem thank you sir.

[@michaelnebeling9085]

Great Video. On point and informative!

[@blattytungu8544]

If I’m able to understand and run X 32 it’s because of you. We’re small French Church w/English language interpret

[@matthewpaynemusic]

Great video, thanks! I need to send keys to the vocal monitor but needed to EQ it differently .. With this I can send the keys to an EQ FX rack and then send that to their floor monitor!

[@joakimblomgren5118]

Tanks :) Good learning

[@ndayishimiyerichard-hh5yl]

Excelent Teacher thanks🙏🙏🙏

[@koniguy1]

Hi Drew, always a delight to see your videos. Indeed very resourceful. Can you make a video on how to use a Dbx driverack 2 (high, mid and low steroe speakers outputs) with the X32. Our current config is LR + Sub but the Dbx only takes a steroe input; How can we get all 3 outputs (including the mono-sub) into the Dbx?

[@RealAlphaDrum]

Thanks, I had this set up for myself a few years ago, and I couldn't remember how I did it. The key was the last piece, which was bothering me. Setting the FX Return Send to pre-fader, which makes sense. You have to treat it as a send, as it functions as a virtual input and virtual output. Hard to get a handle on if you're not used to running old school analogue effects. Luckily, I still had the scene saved on my work laptop and it checks out. Prefader on the sends tab.

[@dx9s]

I can't be the only sound guy that @0:35 in saw the mic and said "SM57" !

[@paulvenkman]

I work with a band where I send them a separate reverb just for their wedges so any alterations I make can be done freely without affecting their reverb fx. However I'm considering adding outboard fx using the auxiliaries so it frees up the processor but allows me to use other things too.

[@TokkanFX]

One problem to watch for with most reverbs is that they are mono in stereo out so you may need more reverb units than you think (this includes the built in effects as far as I can tell). In that case you will end up with singer A's reverb in singer B's monitor and vice versa. I have some Behringer V-Verb units that can run as 2 monos when you use the spdif input and output as one channel and the analoge I/O as the other channel. This also then brings the fact that the AUX I/O is balanced and most Spdiff converters are not. If anyone knows of a balanced I/O cheap mono or independant channel reverb unit please let me know.

[@BjorgenEatinger]

@@TokkanFX Way too technical. Can you please break this down?

[@mbalabenoit7750]

Thx .

[@paulcardone6262]

Hi Drew. Thank you for producing these videos. They are the most informative I have come across. I am working with an x32 producer and because of this video I now can route effects to a monitor bus. However, I have a question. It applies it to everything going into that bus, drums, guitar, etc. Is there a way to only apply to just the vocal inputs? We are using an IEM as an fyi. Thank you again.

[@66fitton]

If the only thing going INTO the verb is vocals, you should not have verb on the guitars and drums going into the bus. If you're hearing verb on the guitars and drums, you have sent those channels TO the verb. At 1:35 in the video is where he sends the vocals to the verb. He "selects" bus 13, hits "Sends on fader", and raises the vocal mic fader. If ANY other faders get raised, they will go to the VERB. Make sure at this stage that ONLY vocal faders get raised! If by chance you have inserted the verb itself directly onto the bus that feeds the IEM, you will hear verb on everything. Drew did not do that. The verb was on bus 13 and the monitor was bus 1. Vocals got sent to bus 1 to get it to the monitor, and also bus 13 to get it to the verb. Then the Effects Return for the verb also got sent to bus 1 to get the verb to the monitor. Hope somehow this helped!✌

[@steffsb9895]

On ne pourrait pas simplement couper l'envoie des sorties d'effet vers L/R ? Encore merci pour toutes vos vidéos passionnantes et instructives !

[@alexc2234]

Maybe it's just me but it felt like a super fast paced video to keep up with.

[@EmomBerks]

Is it possible to send reverb to the solo monitor / contol room... I cant seem to do that. Great for cueing channels before sending to main lr but it always seems to be pre effects. Great tutorial by the way, much needed.

[@rickolchui6517]

Hi drew ....many thanks for your video to make me know more about x32 And i have one question about x32 and p16 May i make a chancel on p16 for a independent reb for a chancel ? Coz my vocal need a lot of reb in his ear 🙇🙇🙇🙇

[@DNF.2]

Hey Drew, fantastic video! I'm a fan of your videos on the X32, very easy to follow and very complete too. Quick question, one time I saw an Audio Engineer assigning/converting the inputs on a X32 (lets say 4 for vocals) to create a copy of those in order to send it to their in-ear monitors. So the case is that the vocalists needed some sort of specific eq or reverb in their in-ears and the Audio engineer did not use the method you showed on this video but instead, created a copy of their channel and whatever effect he applied on that copy it would go ONLY to their in-ears. Does it make sense what Ii'm talking about? :) Do you know? Thanks in advance

[@billynewcomb2485]

I would love to see some videos on mixing a drum kit without a drum shield. Also a video about mixing guitar and bass.

[@elexcessxs3394]

I can't hear a sound when I plug in my headset. What do I do? Thanks for your tutorial. From Nigeria

[@roberthudson761]

Do you have a video that explain how to get reverb into monitors using a Behringer XR18 and Mixing Station for iOS?

[@sylvainvanuffelen2272]

Do you know if it is possible to get reverb on a vocal channel in the P16M? It is connected to the x32Rack via ultranet.

[@galaktika177]

Спасибо дружище. Эффект должен регулироваться ручкой возврата?

[@JeremyShick]

Great video. Question: how would you do this to send an FX to P16 system?

[@HollandTeye]

i think you can assign it to a bus, and route the bus throught to the p16. i play most gigs that way, adding the BV's to a bus and routing it to the p16 in ine channel, same as my Main L-R sometimes. so i think assigning the fx to a bus would be helpful

[@HasnainKhandokerChmok]

great video... wondering so I cannot sent vocal 2 to the same bus channcel to use the same reverb plug-in? the way we do it on DAWs(like logic)

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

I have a simple question, I'm interested in reverb for my lead vocalist in his ears. Does this method then tie the FX proportionally to the Vocal Fader? Because the way I set it up, if you were to pull the Vocal Fader all the way day, the wet FX still remain in the monitor. Whereas I think if you were to do the same thing on the Main LR Layer and pull the Vocal all the way down, the FX would then be also pulled all the way down and you wouldn't hear any of it through the PA. That's how I'd like it to be in the Monitor if possible so any adjustments to ears on the fly the FX will follow it. Does this way allow that?

[@Ingestone]

I get occasional sound engineer gigs from an event company. They own the X32 Producer model. Are there any critical differences (particularly with routing) to the main model? A video on the differences between the models would be very useful...

[@morsikpl]

No differences except missing channel strip LCDs and (obviously) less faders and less I/O on the back.

[@drahcirarodner3680]

Hey Drew, are the returns SENDS can be configured to POST or PRE SEPERATELY for FOH and MONITORS on a MIDAS/BEHRINGER? For example, the STEREO RETURN 1 & 2. i Will make it as PRE for MONITORS, but POST for FOH. Thanks!

[@mikerosenbush3516]

Great tip as always. I got a little confused however on what it is you are changing. You are selecting the fx return fader channel, but altering a property of the monitor channel inside that fx return? What is the purpose of setting it to “pre”? Is that pre-fader? What will happen if you don’t change that? And…if this value is a property of an effects return that affects a monitor send bus, then do you need to change it for any effect return you wish to send to monitors? For example what happens if you also want to send delay (separate fx bus) into the monitors? Repeat the process? It may be useful to know what is happening when you make this change, in addition to just knowing where to change it. Many thanks for your continued videos! 😊

[@DrewBrashler]

Great question! If you kept it on Post Fader like it is default set to, you would be affecting the volume of the reverb being sent to the monitor while you are mixing front of house and adjusting the volume of the reverb up and down. Delay would be the same setup, just a different sound in the monitor!

[@HollandTeye]

@@DrewBrashler so if i get you, changing it to pre fader, breaks that link runs from the Fx return to any bus or output routed to? so my questions is, i personally mix fx during gigs with the bus 13 (i.e the original fx sends), meaning i keep the return at a constant level and control the level with the sends so would this still not affect the monitor send even if the fx return is set to pre?

[@solafajobi]

Hello Drew, thanks for your amazing informative videos on X32. I was wondering why you have to press the solo button to hear the reverb. That part wasn't quite clear for me. Is it just to hear it in the main out or it must be pressed to hear it in the monitor ?

[@BriggsMullen]

I believe he is using the headphone out on the board, which defaults to the main LR out. If you solo a monitor, it will switch the headphone out to listen only to that monitor instead of the main LR. So when solo is on, you are hearing what the monitor would hear, and when it is off, you are hearing what the house would hear. This is just for demonstration purposes to show when/where the reverb is working.

[@darrylkallen]

If you're wanting the same reverb for both the FOH and the monitor, do you need to setup two different FX racks with the same reverb since the one for the monitor is pre-fader?

[@66fitton]

No. The main L/R bus stays post fader. He changed bus 1-4 to pre. He didn't change the effect at all. Cheers

[@mickyc989]

Awesome vid man! I was wondering if you have any suggestions on how to get a great rack Tom/Floor Tom sound. My guys drums are tuned well, but maybe just need suggestions on frequencies/gates and reverbs. Maybe mics. (We use sennheiser e604) Thanks Brotha!

[@66fitton]

Your mics are good enough for sure to get good sound. I learned something a while back that was a game changer for toms. Thing is you need to be able to see your toms on an RTA to really get it right. If you are using an x32 you got it made lol. Pull up the eq screen for your tom channel. leave the eq flat to start. Watch the screen while the drum is being struck. You are looking for the spot in the bottom end that rises the highest when the drum is struck. Go right for the middle of the biggest hump. Raise that frequency at least 6-to 8 dB with a medium Q. Not too narrow, but not really wide either. Yes things will get boomy and muddy at first!! So here's the magic.... whatever the frequency is that you raised, DOUBLE that frequency exactly, grab the next eq and drop that frequency by at least 8-10 dB with a very narrow Q. Then double the second frequency that you dropped 8-10 dB and do it again. So if your floor tom is ringing loudest at 70 htz, BOOST that, then go to 140 htz and DROP it, then go to 240 htz and drop that frequency too. Just double the number every time you add another eq. What's happening is you are removing the overtones at exact octaves from where the fundamental note is ringing. It is a game changer for sure! The only other thing to do is add some highs in to get however much click you want to add. If you can't SEE the tom on an RTA, this is nearly impossible to do lol. If you can see it, it takes 90 seconds. You may find you need a lot less gating and comp because you tightened up the drum itself. If you do use the gates on the x32, remember that they are frequency responsive! You can tell the gate to only listen to certain frequencies!! That way when your snare is cracking loud at 1kHz the gate ignores it because it's only listening to the 100htz range. Louder sounds out of that range the gate ignores no matter how loud they get. Friggen brilliant if you ask me! Sorry for the book lol. Cheers✌

[@mickyc989]

@@66fitton Fun stuff, Thank You!!! I will def try that trick out next show, I can’t wait!🤘🏻

[@augustw.7635]

Could you do a video on using a DAW (such as GarageBand) and/or how you could use a DAW to mix audio for a livestream?

[@eliemusic3108]

Thank you for that video!! Is there an other way to send Reverb to a monitor if i don't wanna use Solo botton for it?

[@DrewBrashler]

The solo button was just used to show that reverb was going to the monitor send. Follow the same steps in the video and you will be good! Hope that helps!

[@TylerTripsTunes]

Does making the fx return pre for a bus have any effect on main LR reverb return

[@flappyou]

Would this would with any mix bus that is created? We are using a mix bus for our live stream and would love some effects going to it, but can’t get it there. Everything is already set to pre.

[@arnoldpeneueta8238]

Aloha Drew, can you please make a video of how to send reverb to floor monitors using the M32 app? Our church currently uses the Behringer x32 Rack, and so I mix from the Ipad. I have had several musicians ask me to add reverb to their floor mix, but I'm not sure how to. I'm a novice at this, and I'm open to learning. I enjoy running sound for our worship team, so learning and applying new techniques is a plus for me. Thank you, and I look forward to the video.

[@ke6gwf]

It should be exactly the same as this video, you just have to find the corresponding controls on the app. I use Mixing Station instead of the Behringer app, so I can't speak specifically, but if you poke at it you should be able to find Sends on Fader and all the busses easily enough.

[@joetrujillo1028]

Hi Drew what about if I need send reverb to p16 monitors on the stage for the musicians ? For every musician

[@NicholasReguin]

Great vid, Drew. Can you also send verb over p16?

[@DrewBrashler]

You can! You would just route from one of the Effects Returns to the P16 sends.

[@myronblackmon8883]

Hi Drew. My singers want reverb in the p16s and this video seems to be more about wedges.....

[@QuebecFitness]

How do you EQ and compress etc .. individual insruments into the monitor without changing the mix in FOH ? Is it the same way as to send the reverb in the monitor ?

[@loudasthunder]

I would like you to do a video about using an external mic preamp. I have an 8-channel Focusrite ISA828 mic preamp I would like to use with my Behringer X32 mixer. How do I use my Focusrite preamp instead of using the X32's preamp?

[@66fitton]

Run the outputs of the 828 to the inputs of the x32 and leave the x32 preamps at zero. Do all you gaining up with the 828. If you don't gain up on the x32 preamps, you are not using them.

[@danieldubon95]

How do you send it to the p16?

[@zarkentertainmentdjaudiovi7388]

Hello Drew.. Thanks for the video.. Why did you change to Pre ?? please help understand

[@geneconnelly3852]

I believe, that if it was left POST, that any change to the ffects fader (as you might mute it or lift or change it's level) will also change the amount of reverb in the monitor. Setting it as PRE lets you change the reverb in the House (MAIN OUT) without effecting the artists monitor. I generally leave it as POST, but my effects returns never change. If i need to pull out the reverb (like when a singer is speaking) i mute it at the efeects send level.

[@scandic24]

Excellent video - What if you have a P16 Personal Monitor and want to add some reverb on the voc mic's in the in-ears?

[@DrewBrashler]

You would need to send the verb on its own channel to the P16, or use a mixbus to mix it before sending to the P16. I often use a mono mixbus as what I call a "Flex Bus" for mixing a stereo channel to a single channel for the P16's. But if a vocalist was also wanting reverb on their vocal with a P16, I would use this flex bus for them. Basically I would only send the Vocal + Verb to that mixbus, and then send that mixbus to the P16. Hope that helps!

[@scandic24]

@@DrewBrashler Thank you for your quick reply. I am not 100% sure how to do what you suggest but I will give it a try. We'll see how it goes. Maybe a topic for a video? 🙂

[@nyochat12]

drew , i think , i could send my bus fx (for example bus 13 ) to one channel in to p16… it’s that correct ?

[@user-gh6kk8bf8o]

Question....can you simply add reverb to a "Bus Mix", which is what we are sending to the stream? Or do you have to add it to each channel individually, then send them to the "Bus Mix" channel with the reverb rack?

[@mbalabenoit7750]

The solo presed can't go in headphone?

[@shammusic2011]

Hi Drew..do u have video for Fx send to mon in WING..tq Sir..

[@DrewBrashler]

Not yet I'll make sure to add that to the list!

[@victormbale4520]

Hello drew, can you explain why the settings of the FX to monitors were changed to "Pre", what was the reason behind and the significance of it?

[@user-ye6uk3ue9r]

Pre stands for pre-fader, and the fader it’s referring to is the main channel fader going to the LR mix. The buss that’s sending signal to the monitor is pre-fader, so that the monitor mix is independent of the LR house mix. If you sent the signal to the FX post-fader, the amount of reverb going into the monitor mix would change depending on the position of the main channel fader, LR main fader, and the mix in the house. Putting the FX pre-fader will feed them parallel to the Monitor buss, which is also pre-fader.

[@alexc2234]

Now that I had a year to get familiar with the X32, I have a related issue. Vocal Channel works, Monitor Channel (in-ear) works. I have effects in both, so good right? but..... 1. If I LOWER the volume on the Vocal Channel, the Monitor Channel EFFECTS disappear but raw volume is still ok there. 2. If I MUTE the Vocal Channel, the Monitor Channel is also muted so my in-ears go dead for that channel. Not good if I'm rehearsing and don't need to blast through the main speakers but would still like to hear myself in the in-ears. I hoped your video instructions would help but here's what happened after setting to "PRE".... Both the Vocal Channel volume and Monitor Channel volume doesn't work anymore, but sound is still coming though purely through the effects in those channels. SO I lose volume control in both.

[@foxytv4896]

Great Tutorial actually, but it's a bit of a pity he doesn't explain WHY he actually does it. To my experience, Buses going to Wedges or Stage Monitors are set to pre fader in most situations anyways. So does he simply show how to configure the bus so that any source (Mics, FX) goes pre fader onto it ('them' as they are paired) or am I missing out on something here? Thanks a lot.

[@johnnyvlee]

Usually I immediately understand what you're saying but in this instance I'm going to have to try it to understand exactly what you did. It didn't appear that you changed any send routing, all you did was change the sends from post-fader to pre-fader? Also, maybe I missed you saying this, but it seems that you didn't really emphasize that this took the reverb effect off the main bus. So it's not like the reverb is being shared both by the monitor and the main. There seems to be some personal preference in whether monitor bus sends should be pre or post fader. I see that you're firmly in the post-fader camp. I need to do some reading on the trade-offs. I would have thought pre would be better so that adjusting the main mix does not affect the monitor mix.

[@vadimmartynyuk]

How can this be done on WING ?

[@danielmorales711]

Are you at our church watching us have issues lol you're videos are on time

[@Liveband-life]

I got lost for the first time , why the solo, when solo you hear the reverb ,when not soloed the reverb is off,I was lost there .

[@andyfeig5896]

In his house mix, the Effects 1 return faders are all the way down, so none of that effect is going into the house. If you watch when he turns the monitor solo off, you'll notice those faders drop. If you pushed that up when not solo'd you would also have the reverb in the house.

[@rodneyhewitt453]

He presses the SOLO button so he can hear the monitor mix locally. He turns it back off to hear the main mix. So he is using the SOLO button to switch between the two.

[@74djrichard]

I'm kind'a confused. Why would you set to PRE for FX monitor set up, since most general practice is POST.

[@GhanaianBluesman]

Hey Drew, what mic are you using for your voice audio?

[@DrewBrashler]

I'm using the Thor Hammer Headset. It was given to me by a friend years ago, and have still used it since! thorav.us/hammer-headset-microphone/

[@GhanaianBluesman]

​@@DrewBrashler Does this work for a Sennheiser style mic? If not, what would you recommend Sennheiser Ew 100 G4 setup

[@house1918tyler]

So is this reverb just the channel or is it reverberating the whole monitor mix? Like if I do this, will everything that I send to that mix get reverb?

[@house1918tyler]

Kind of a newb question, I know. Believe it or not, I’ve been doing this for 20 years 😂

[@ilyuha_25]

Good day, Drew! I have a question for you regarding the Behringer X32. I am just a sound producer in my church. See. I have a main stream that I broadcast in the hall. I send the sound from MixBus 1-2 to the computer for recording. At the same time I use the layout, which you quite simply explained in your youtube videos. Then I have a parallel translation in English and French. I use MixBus 3-4/5-6 for that respectively. The question is as follows. What do I need to do on my computer to make the sound come from USB so that I can in the video program OBS (for example) and capture sound from MixBus? The scheme is as follows: I use User Out: User Out 1 - MixBus 1 User Out 2 - MixBus 2 User Out 3 - MixBus 3 User Out 4 - MixBus 4 User Out 5 - MixBus 5 User Out 6 - MixBus 6 Is it possible what I'm asking or is there some additional software I need to download? The option to send to AuxOut in my case is not an option, because through the "RCA"-cable there is a small interference - and without them I only consider USB. I will wait very much for feedback! Thank you!

[@HollandTeye]

just a suggestion as we wait for Mr Drew, you mean you want your usb to take 6 outputs at a time? or just 2

[@66fitton]

I can't figure out what you're asking? ...The question is as follows. What do I need to do on my computer to make the sound come from USB so that I can in the video program OBS (for example) and capture sound from MixBus? You said you send out bus 1 and 2 to computer for recording. Are you asking how to get those sounds from the computer back to the board? Or are you asking how to record all six bus' instead of just the two? Or are you asking how to get the signal from bus 1 and 2 to record in a separate video program? I will be here if you clarify! Cheers

[@woodrowtremckenzieiii]

How do I turn fx off through main left and right ?

[@DrewBrashler]

I would take a look at your FX returns and see if they are un muted. Additionally, make sure that none of your effects are inserted on the LR bus by looking at your Effects page. Hope this helps!

[@philipwalker4919]

I enjoy your videos, Drew, as I use an M32. I think you need to do this one again to make it a little simpler to understand

[@rciancia]

Drew - would love to see you connect a subwoofer and show how to route bass/kick to it.... thank you !!!

[@loveaboveall2382]

Jesus, That's a lot of fader flipping just to get reverb, and even more steps to get the reverb to the monitor. I feel like i need a PhD to truly master these steps. Please tell me it's easier on other digital mixing consoles.

[@stephensams709]

I think your videos are very informative and I'm kind of new to the X32, but you go so fast, I have a hard time following you. I've just started slowing down the speed of the video to make it easier to follow.

[@proggydan8257]

Mmmmm. This is 1st video of yours I have struggled to follow. Got a little lost there 😆

[@DrewBrashler]

Oh no, thanks for the feedback!

[@morleychallenged]

The only answer is NO. Do you really want to die that way? What about the talent, surrounded with so much latency between room acoustics, audience response, and stuff spilled on all the gear? Do you actually dress that way at work?

[@lo-filivesound1595]

Get to the point drew pls

[@rovertokid]

I don’t like this mixer 👎

[@mbalabenoit7750]

Thx.