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Artisan Sound
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Qlab devamping on steroids
In this video we go over revamping techniques in Qlab. The first section shows for our Qlab operators how to read and handle revamping instructions, and after about 5 minutes we show the under-the-hood-techniques.
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Gain Structure for Musical Theater vs Band - Behringer X32
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In this video we’re exploring the differences in the gain structure between musical theater and typical live settings with band, singers and speakers in a rock concert or church. This may be a bit controversial, so just watch this video with an open mind and leave a comment with your questions or ideas. Mixing live sound for music theater with Behringer X32 or Midas M32.
Prologue and Tower of Babel -iPad mix
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Godspell iPad mixes raw footage for educational purposes. Prologue and Tower of Babel
Willy Wonka Jr - sound setup
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In this video we look at refining the mic automation with individual mute and unmute events in Qlab that are used when actors go off stage before a scene or song ends, or when someone enters the stage after the beginning of a scene or song.
Mic and DCA layout for Willy Wonka Jr - Workshop
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Mic and DCA layout for Willy Wonka Jr - Workshop
Little Women - Some Things Are Meant To Be
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Little Women - Some Things Are Meant To Be
Thank you for your videos. I've moved from a very small theater with a tiny analog board and 8 mics, to now having mixed a few big shows at a larger venue on a Midas Pro2. I can really see the benefit of using a board like this with scenes. The Pro2 is great and a big upgrade from the tiny analog board but I still have to do a lot of work following the script and muting and unmuting. I try to group things as much as I can but it still can be challenging.
Perfekte Werbung, super Clip - Gratulation....
You mention a longer video in the description but there is no link
This is invaluable... was a bit confused at first, but experimenting with QLab driving the M32 it suddenly became clear. You have made my life much easier sir! :)
Audio cue not music cue
Why are there 2 Snippet sections? I have never understood the reasoning for that... I have created snippets in the Mixer Snippets section and trigger them through midi just fine. What is the correct procedure to creating and using these snippets? Are we supposed to create them Offline, on the same section as shown on this video first? Then export them, save them on the computer? Once connected to the mixer, then what? Load the Imported Snippets in the Mixer Section one by one and save them in the mixer section? I am starting to believe that I only need to create them Offline and not using the Mixer Snippets section at all as the offline section does everything the Mixer section does. Am I missing something? Unfortunately there is no help to be found in the user manual of the X32 Rack, so I would appreciate some feedback from fellow users. Thanks in advance.
I have been trying to get a straight answer on these same questions for month. I wish someone could explain it.
thank you!!! you're a life saver
Is this something you can do on the board and not on a computer?
You didn't explain what desk you started on. You didn't explain how you prepared inputs before you began mixing groups. I could go on and I will. You didn't describe how you inspected the system, from the microphones and other inputs to the speakers. You really can't teach this topic in twelve minutes.
I think that’s why the video is titled “Ground rules for Musical Theatre mixing” and not “Everything You need to know about Musical Theatre mixing”
separate question, theres a headphone jack on the side of the board, and i was wondering what i can use it for !!
Wonderful video! Do you have a video that goes over the board configuration of assigning Q lab Audio Level output patches to Aux tracks or other channels on the X32 board? You mention this at the very end of this video, though did not go over how to configure this on the board. Thanks for sharing, loved your explanation!
This depends on the routing settings in the board. I usually have only Aux 1-4 inputs routed as Card. In that case you can access two stereo pairs from Qlab. I'll see if I can make a video about it.
@@artisansound1807 thank you!!!
Thank you so much! That's gonna make my job soooo much easier
Is there any reason why you don't use TheatreMix (formally X32 Theatre Control) to manage your DCAs alongside muting and other automation?
very interesting process ! thank-you for this video
Sweet heard about it ,glad you showed it !
You do realize that the faders are logarithmic? Sorry, Using a behringer makes the advice suspect
This is way beyond my skill level. What resources would you recommend to learn this type of programming?
Nice! I was always curious about the live perspective of musical theater audio
Thank you
great and true! I used to do a lot of sound design for musical Theater. I always struggled to get the local sound technican to mix musical instead of technical. you have to mix from the heart and not from the head.
Very helpful. Thanks!
Thank you!
Hi in what order should this collection of videos be viewed?
Appreciate the advice, but the signal to noise is ridiculous!
Are you talking about the background noise you hear in this video? That's not coming through the board. It's just the air conditioning that was running when I was recording the video. I don't mix any shows from our booth because it's too noisy, and I can hear much better from the audience. I mix on an iPad. I can sit anywhere in the audiecen doing that.
Can you effectively mix remotely on the ipad and simultaneously call up those cues with GO button or do you have to be at the board for that? Thanks for the info...
Very cool!
Nice!
Very well said! Awesome, Awesome, Awesome!!! I play in a pit orchestra for shows and our soundboard operators do not have a clue. They do what you said at 11:11. We are all pro musicians that are never heard. The audience only hears cymbals and an occasional trumpet, acoustically. Even for dance numbers (no singing) the shoes on stage are louder than the music. SO FRUSTRATING!!!! I wish you were doing our sound.
Yep, just like choosing musicians, there's a giant difference between an audio tech who only knows how to switch mics on and off, and someone who has the skill, the experience, and the ear to actually "mix" the show. The latter is what you get when you hire a pro audio engineer. These tips are all spot on!
the gain was very bad ... it's -18 dbs
I don't think that's a bad thing: ruclips.net/video/7MJ3rfj7HNc/видео.html I may be missing something, but I don't think so. (Happy to learn something I don't know...)
I’ve given this some more thought and just posted a new video that explains why we’re using a more conservative gain structure in musical theatre mixing. Check it out!
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Also I dont use the mute button. I keep all of the faders at -inf until my script tells me when.
This is my console layout when I mix musicals, rf mics ip, dca vocal fx, dca aerials/boundaries, extra percussion ip, qlab ip, spotify ip, group metals, group toms, group kick/snare, group bass guitar, group guitars, group pianos, group brass, group strings, group rf, dca band, livestream aux, ext. video matrix, backstage aux, center monitor aux, l/r monitor aux, front fill matrix, sub aux, L/R matrix, center matrix. I keep this on my lowest layer and above these layers are the aerials/boundaries and band. On the topmost layers I have the fx. I use an edited version of the script to queue the mics "manually". I used to mix with the muted mic setup when I first started but it wasn't very good.
There is a midi controller on my computer that I would like to use as vst for beat making . I am using a x32 . The midi is showing on cubase and I have signal but the sound it not coming out. Any help please!
If you're using the X-USB driver, and have the X32 connected correctly to your computer via the X-USB port, the sound outputs to the board should show up on your computer. So you can select them there. Then you need to also make sure that you have some input on the board set to have some card channels selected. For example, we just set the Aux 1-4 inputs to Card 1-4. That's in the Routing menu on the board. When you do that you can select OUT 1-2 or OUT 3-4 on your computer, and the sound should show up on the corresponiding Aux inputs on the board.
@@artisansound1807 thank you I will try this
Is there a live orchestra or just music from Qlab?
The music is playing from tracks in Qlab.
This video would be helpful if you actually showed how you built the cue list.
I made a new one that shows that. It’s the most recent one at the moment.
Thank you Thomas for all of your hard work! I know that Dalton has really enjoyed working with you on music and German! Until next time. God bless you and yours!
GOOD TUTO, THANS SIR
Do you know if it is possible to save monitor fader levels as a snippet?
Do you mean levels of buses that feed monitors? Yes. In the Snippet filters you can select Fader (= levels) and any Bus(es) you want to save.
How is this better than Theatremix? Theatremix seems like a lot easier to do......
Hi Thomas, Just wanted to say I've recently found your channel and it's actually helped with a couple of great ways of planning my approach to sound design within Musical Theatre. One of the biggest things I've been trying to resolve is the ability to use Qlab to control my X32 and I've found that you have done this. I'm sure in a previous video you made a comment that you had scoured the web to find information on MIDI details for doing this. ( I too am struggling ) Do you have any links that would assist in this area? I have managed to now set up my X32 to accepts MIDI from qlab and I have successfully achieved to fire a cue to Mute and unmute direct channels. I'm now looking to find the way to fire Cues & Snippets. I honestly think I'm on the edge of discovery for this but as I've seen you have achived this! Can you help? Pete
Hi Pete: here is the link to the complete MIDI command chart that I found: behringer.world/wiki/doku.php?id=x32_midi_table I had been looking for this for the longest time. Really surprising that it’s not in a more obvious official documentation.
Thomas your'e a legend! This was like finding the Holy Grail. I'd managed to send MIDI from the X32 to Qlab and fire the cues no problem. I just could not code it to work the other way. With this document I'm now able to easily fire all the Cues/Snippets and direct channel commands as required. Thank again.
Thomas - thank you for these videos! They are very useful for theatre sound mixing which I do too.
Great!
So do you mix using the dca faders? Because what if you have a many different characters on stage at the same time. Do you just route their mic to the same dca and work with it that way or do you mix it from the channel input faders?
Yes, I mix mainly with the DCA faders only. I route the open mics to 6 DCA faders differently for each scene/song, as needed to give me best control with just these faders. If there are any imbalances within larger groups, I adjust them with small tweaks on the channel faders. But for the most part, everything can be handled with the DCA faders.
@@artisansound1807 Thank you!!!
Thank you for the step by step guide. I was under the impression that any audio being passed through Qlab had to be coming from the same source as the output source. It seems that in this example, you have audio coming from a laptop and being output through the board. Did they change the parameters in Qlab? BTW, I love the fact that you split audio and SFX to different stereo inserts on the board. That's a clever trick and I will defiantly be using that.
You are welcome! We are not passing audio through Qlab in this case. We are playing WAv or mp3 files from within Qlab. I don't know if you can route audio through Qlab also to different audio patches. I would assume that you can do that with the Mic patches, but we're not using that feature, so I don't know for sure.
Thank you so much; your videos have been so crucial in teaching me the process of mixing theatre on an X32, and they've truly helped me so much. You deserve a lot more recognition for the work you do ❤️
If I want to be part of your band can it be possible
Thank you so much! Technical AND artistic.
very useful advice, thanks
Separate question, would you do a video on how to use faders/deca groups? I have a ton of questions if your willing to answer then. It's hard to find people who use the same sound mixer as I do and can answer questions. If you do live streams or willing to do zoom calls I would love to pick your brain about it.
Do you have any specific question about how to use DCA groups that goes beyond what I mentioned in this video already?
@@artisansound1807 Could you go a bit more in-depth about them? It would be great on how to set them up, and possibly how to use them for multiple things. I will definitely be checking out the scene mutings this weekend.
That is awesome, I've worked with the x32 and Qu-32 for about a year. I'm 100% going to start doing this. Thank you so much.
You can do it! Let me know how it turns out for you!