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How to Make Your Snare Drum Punch on the Behringer X32
If your snare sounds like a cardboard box, or it’s harsh and pokey, or it just disappears behind everything else on a Sunday, the fix is usually simpler than you think. And most of it happens before you ever touch…
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How to Compress a Bass Guitar on the Behringer Wing
One thing I really like to do on bass is use two compressors, each doing a little bit of work, instead of one compressor doing all of it. That’s kind of my whole philosophy on compression in general, but bass…
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How to Make Your Kick Drum Punch on the Behringer X32
A kick drum can be one of the easiest things to mix or one of the most frustrating, and most of the frustration comes from not knowing what you’re actually listening for yet. So in this one we’re going to…
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A Conversation Every Worship Leader Needs to Hear
I sat down with Micah Waller, one of the worship leaders at First Baptist Huntsville, which is one of the largest and oldest churches in Alabama. Micah’s been a friend of mine for a long time, going back to our…
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Why Your Church Sound Is Bad (and It’s Probably Not the Sound Booth)
After leading worship for over 20 years and running sound in church for most of that time too, I’ve found there are really four things that decide the sound that comes out of the speakers on a Sunday morning. And…
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Behringer X32 Snare Settings: The Top and Bottom Mic Blend
Here’s how I dial in a snare on the X32 in a real worship mix, both the top and the bottom mic, and how I blend the two so the snare has body up front and sizzle on top. These…
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How to Mix a Full Worship Band on the Behringer X32, Start to Finish
In this one I build a full worship mix on the X32 from start to finish, using my current layout that’s based on my advanced scene. We cover a lot of ground, so this is the one to watch if…
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How to Mix Toms on the Behringer Wing
Toms can be a pain, because they ring, they pick up everything around them, and the gate is fighting the cymbals the whole time. So here’s how I handle them on the Wing, working through the gate, the EQ, and…
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How I Use Two Reverbs on Drums on the Behringer Wing
Once your dry drums are sounding good, reverb is what adds length and ambience and makes them feel like they’re in a real space. And on my drum mixes I like to run two reverbs, not one, because they do…
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How to Set Up DCAs on the Behringer Wing
This is how I set up my DCAs on the Behringer Wing, and it’s the same way I do it on the X32. The console is different but the workflow is identical. If you’re not sure what a DCA is,…
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How to Mix a Kick Out Mic on the Behringer Wing
The kick out mic is the one in the port hole on the front of the kick, and it does a totally different job than the kick in mic. Here are three ways I’ll mix one on the Behringer Wing,…
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The Livestream Mix I Use Every Sunday on the Behringer Wing
This is the simple way I run our livestream at church from the Behringer Wing. The big idea is that I treat the livestream as its own main out, separate from the house mix, so I can process it and…
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Three Vocal Effects That Changed My Worship Mix on the Behringer Wing
Vocals are where a mix lives or dies, and a few effects can take a good vocal and make it feel finished. Here are the vocal effects I run on the Behringer Wing, the reverb, the delay, and the little…
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Bass Guitar EQ and Compression Settings for the Behringer X32
Bass is one of the trickiest things to mix well, because it’s dynamic and it covers a huge frequency range depending on the player’s tone and how they attack the strings. Here’s how I EQ and compress a bass on…
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Behringer X32 Kick Drum Settings: Two Mics and the Pultec Trick
Here’s how I set up a kick drum on the X32 in a real worship mix, running two mics, checking phase, and using a couple of the effects on the board to add body. These are the settings I landed…
