Testing The Behringer WING COMPACT As A Multitrack Recorder

[@carnpitts]

Sounds great!! I started watching your videos where you go around fixing churches sound. I’m a drummer at my church and we don’t really have a sound man, just some volunteers that help with levels during service. I’ve become the guy in charge of sound, I guess lol. I really enjoy your videos. Your mixes sounds so good. And this band sounds incredible! Nice work!

[@aaax9410]

Great musicians :)

[@Dubez1240]

Aye I love watching your videos, I'm going for audio engineering for university because of the motivation ur videos give me

[@CeesoTLKR]

This sounds really good even despite the bass guitar and kick drum not being the best source material. The guitar player has his stuff dialed in completely and gear i'd lean towards for sure. Impressive results for such a quick little setup/project. That Console is wild

[@RolandDeschain1]

Attenuating and boosting simultaneously on a Pultec is a famous technique. If you do it on the low end it gives a nice warmth and saturation to a mix bus.

[@deewizzard808]

magnificent mix bro. tha is for this video. ordered mine yesterday

[@AsianJBlazian]

Amazing videos man! Especially when its just the raw video recording with minimal cuts. Super inforamative, just seeing what the process is like with cleaning up the mix.

[@revp01]

Man, thanks so much for uploading this. Similar to how I setup for live & studio. We are currently on 3-M32s, X32Rack, & M32C. Definitely will be updating to the Wing platform in the near future. Compact & Full Wing for live. For my home studio and live keys & backing track rig, I use MR18. Might consider a Wing Rack to upgrade. Behringer has done well!😊

[@chrishammillaudio]

The quality of these pres allow me to push the tracks like I couldn’t before with the X32. It’s a very easy console to get good sound off of.

[@Opensourcetrio]

Thank you!

[@Rafaeru_png]

Man, this is soooo good, thx for bringing content about this console. I'm considering buy one of these to put on my church. We have a analog console, I think the wing console would be an amazing upgrade.

[@chrishammillaudio]

You really can’t go wrong with it. It’s so versatile. I’ve been using this just about every day for a month and I’m still learning about it.

[@agentfizz1047]

I've been thinking about it too. Planning to go with the full size with an SD32 though

[@kaboozle]

It’s always sad when pro gear goes to die in a fantasy setting like a church.

[@chrishammillaudio]

@@kaboozle It's always sad when I see a new comment notification and it's some hack bullshit from an atheist.

[@deepdance111]

Very Nice :)) ...Please More about ...plugin emulation on this mixer !!:)

[@musicmankeyz]

That would be nice to see

[@LegatoSoundsandLights]

I love the POV view of view explaining

[@anthonycook5238]

3:43 ahhhhhh you mean the part where we pull out the strip tape and sharpie !!!, no, but for real when I can tell on this console is that assigning channels is already a lot easier once in my opinion will eliminate the need of strip tape , but you know how them festivals get multi bands in one day it gets hard , but for recording it fully makes sense , I’ll make sure to go watch your other video of this consol in action in a live setting at dingbats next !

[@chrishammillaudio]

You can save scenes and presets for each band.

[@joshuadriesbach4281]

Very tempted to get one of these. Wanting to get more into studio recording and being able to mix bands live at different venues in my area. Thinking this might be the most cost effective way to be able to do all of it.

[@chrishammillaudio]

It’s changed the game for my personal use. It’s an amazing console.

[@viktorevgenievich812]

good job!

[@oneammonday]

If you don't wanna use sd cards, can you use the usb port on the back for multitracking, or do you have to install a card. I see it comes with a dante card already installed. Few people have dante rigs, everybody has a usb port. Cheers, Chris.

[@drazenl7046]

Excellent video mate 👋, and it seems that this console is exactly what I need for my home studio purpose (and even much more) 😉👍. We are band of three and usually record instrumental part of a song in one take with lot of guitar and vocal overdubbing. Therefore, my question to you is what outputs you were using during recording session to enable the monitoring for each band member (due to the fact that as I understood, compact WING has only two headphone OUTS ?!) Looking forward to see new videos on a Behringer WING range 🙂...

[@gatlinproduction]

Great Video. I recorded drums following your steps, but after Recording on the SD cards, I cannot hear playback through my headphones. I have no speakers connected or no monitors. How do I hear playback through my headphones?

[@chrishammillaudio]

You have to set up the console to allow playback with the channels or just drag the file on the sd card into a DAW

[@isaiahbernal]

Is there channel presets like on the x32 . like the whisky presets? for kick and snare , overheads .......

[@chrishammillaudio]

None that I can see.

[@tonybell1597]

fantastic,

[@naakaalastudio6655]

The SD card can record processed channels? I thought you had to do all sort or routings with the P16 option for it to do that. USB records process channels also?

[@chrishammillaudio]

The SD card records only the pre amp. No processing. I’m sure there’s a way to print the EQ and effects to the SD card, but why would you record multitrack if you can’t mix it later after tracking? I always want to record raw and have the chance to mix later. The usb drive can record the main L/R and that includes all of the processing you do in your signal flow.

[@naakaalastudio6655]

@@chrishammillaudio Ok thx.

[@Vi3ion_]

🔥

[@smartsystemav]

Question, I’ve just got the wing rack, can you link channels so that both levels change, I know you can set them up as stereo but that doesn’t link or group faders.

[@chrishammillaudio]

No. As far as I know.

[@smartsystemav]

Didn’t think so. Thanks

[@gatlinproduction]

What’s the name of your stand you’re using to hold up your wing?

[@chrishammillaudio]

A keyboard stand.

[@audiobunny1767]

Nice work, new sub

[@juukoisaac9421]

While recording, is one sd card used or you bave to put in 2 sd cards in the two slots?

[@chrishammillaudio]

One but it has 2 slots

[@jimyvick1]

Just curious what you used channel 10&11 for. I know you mentioned “tracks L and R” but for what specifically? Thanks, great vids! Much appreciated!!!

[@chrishammillaudio]

Backing tracks.

[@Elior1030]

Nice board man. Could you give us the dimensions of the board?

[@chrishammillaudio]

57.43 x 45.337 x 22.5 cm

[@Elior1030]

@chrishammillaudio thank you sir, for taking the time🫡

[@BoldlyReformed]

Sounds amazing in my Status Audio Between 3ANCs

[@DOMANSED]

This is just awesome, what a wonderful sound! Fantastic!

[@wolfey2917]

How’s the monitoring work was it hooked up to the desk or separate if so what? I am surprised how the band aren’t afraid of showing there pedals boards and amp really cool band

[@chrishammillaudio]

Connected right to his studio monitors.

[@huntersound82]

Kapan ada d Indonesia

[@chrishammillaudio]

No clue

[@Hovor_mi_matej]

May I ask how you played and mixed the recorded tracks through the wing after the band stopped playing? Can it only be done with the SD card?

[@thomas_ger4098]

You can setup an „alternative“ routing where you can route the tracks you recorded on the sd card to the channels. So usually you would route trk 1 to channel 1, trk 2 to channel 2 and so on. the you can switch with one button the whole console to the alternative routing - means all channels now receive their signal from the sd card. The recording writes the signals to the tracks on the sd card directly after the mic preamp. So you get unprocessed signals in the recording, When you play it back (and have done the routing into the channels) you get the unprocessed signals into your channels and can process them - so as if the band would play live. This incredibly useful. I use it a lot for pre-soundchecks at the venue before the band has arrived.

[@chrishammillaudio]

You can set it up to be a daw controller But in this instance it was straight through the sd card.

[@Hovor_mi_matej]

@@thomas_ger4098thank you so much!

[@MsMivvi]

Is that the SD card playing back through the desk?

[@chrishammillaudio]

No. That’s the mixed recording in sync with the original tracking.

[@jerryfield5815]

Well I know someone who is going to get him one Wing compact that would be me 😊

[@SteveSmithStuff]

One more here. I already do this with my M32R. Just the 24 local inputs is enough for me to want a Wing Compact.

[@AyeYoPat]

I wish you had captured the audio from the wing…… as you were recording. I want to hear the actual wing cause I want one.

[@chrishammillaudio]

It would have been one giant distorted mess since everything was hovering at -18 to -12

[@voca-chan7953]

Hey Chris, I know it doesn't make sense for a channel aimed at audio, but would you like captions to be written for your videos? Especially like this one. I absolutely love all these videos and I think adding captions to make everything understandable would make it seem more professional.

[@chrishammillaudio]

My videos have auto captions on.

[@agork]

More like this and different genres plus importing and mixing in DAW.

[@chrishammillaudio]

I have a whole livestream of importing and mixing raw multitracks.

[@Blue_Reded]

how do you set up the input source level in wing?

[@chrishammillaudio]

Select the channel and go to the input page under the home button. Adjust gain where needed.

[@Blue_Reded]

@@chrishammillaudio I mean I want know what is the standard value of input source

[@petercastle4381]

Chris please all your studio wing videos in the Behringer Wing | Studio music production group on f book.

[@chrishammillaudio]

I don’t use Facebook.

[@ronaldroberts343]

What does "printed onto my computer" mean?" I assume "printed" means somehow you played it back from the console and recorded it on your computer? And you said this is the result (at the end of the video). But they are playing LIVE.... so how is this a recording from your PC ?

[@chrishammillaudio]

You assumed correctly. They are playing live with the finished mix of that performance.

[@ronaldroberts343]

@@chrishammillaudio OK, thank you. So you sync'd the audio with the video?.... and they are actually playing live, but ww're not hearing them play live, we are hearing them from your mixed-down recording from your PC or MAC sync'd with the video ???? Is that correct.? Just want to understnand and thank you again for the video....

[@chrishammillaudio]

Yes. Syncd audio with video.

[@gregstroup549]

Do you an email address to ask you a Wing question.

[@chrishammillaudio]

Just ask me here.

[@caffeinastudio832]

dang that sounds good! and no samples!

[@chrishammillaudio]

Drum tuning and mic placement work wonders. Also helps when you have a drummer that can actually play!

[@austinnichols3557]

wish we could hear direct line

[@chrishammillaudio]

You literally hear the final product at the end of the video.