Just one little tip. While a scene saves your mixer settings to your computer, a snapshot saves the setting to the mixer itself so that you can load it even if you´re using another computer, a tablet, or a phone.

I feel like Saul Goodman just taught me how to use a mixer

Thank you for the video just so no one gets confused your information regarding the FX may be misleading. The Green FX area as you said is not for the monitors when you are on the Main LR page they Return Faders for each effect, whereas when you click on the Blue FX button now all your channel faders are how much of each channel you want sent to that specific effect selected and the FX bus main fader to far right is the master send of that effect. Also you are not sending an effect to a channel but sending some or all of that channels “dry” signal to the effect and then the return from the effect which is “wet” back into another channel on the mixer that can then be mixed via the FX Return Fader to wherever you need such as Mains and Monitors. Insert mode on an effect will insert that effect into a channel or channels directly at a tap point that you select and will only affect those channels

Just a recommendation, you should consider lowering the volume of your mic and talking louder. Your current setup requires you to borderline whisper, which causes you to smack your lips every 5 seconds, along with us being able to hear every breath that you take. and that can overstimulate your audience. I do appreciate the content though!

Saul Goodman!

Many people tried to explain this to me for years, but all failed. You held my attention and explained everything to me within 60 minutes. Great video, Thank you so much!

The Snapshot-Button ist NOT for taking a screenshot! As you can save/load a scene as an external file, snapshots stores the whole settings inside the mixer. So you can have multiple setups saved inside the mixer itself and you can switch between them with an ipad without the need of having access to an external file.

Good overview. The only thing to edit is that the "Snapshot" isn't a screenshot tool. It saves your setting to the actual mixer itself so you can load the settings from any computer, tablet, phone, etc. You can save up to 64 (I believe) snapshots to the physical mixer so if you play different venues you can save the different settings and load them up when needed. If you use the non-snapshot "save" future it's only saving your settings to the current device you're using (your computer) and you can save an unlimited amount of them.

You sound just like Jimmy McGill (Better Call Saul)

Notes on the recorder. It works best to play back only what was recorded on the mixer. To play MP3's simply use a phone or other MP3 device into an aux input. I use a Sandisk for just background music or a full DJ controller for events that need the power of a DJ setup. This applies to the full size X32 devices too. Don't even try to play stuff not recorded on the mixer. It generally won't work.

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Thank you for taking the time to do this. Mine is arriving in three days and I really feel confident I can hit the ground running with it upon arrival. Your style is very slow-paced and easy for a beginner like myself to follow along, yet despite the beginner level content, it was thorough and explored some of the more complex features that might otherwise go untouched for fear of messing something up. I'm sure it's not 100% and that's OK -- I'm now familiar enough with it that I can be dangerous.

Now I understand digital mixers. They seemed so complicated. I think I will love my mixer now.

This is the greatest tutorial in the history of tutorials! My Xr-18 along with the rest of the PA arrives today and I'm super excited. Now, I'll be able to get the basics up and running very quickly and enjoy the rest of the learning curve journey. Thanks SO much!

You made it very very easy for us newbies, sir! It only took me an hour to watch this video and get myself up to speed not only on this specific mixer, but on the overall concept of digital mixing. I appreciate your efforts and attention to detail in this video very much.

I just bought one and love the detail of this video. Thank you for taking the time to explain this. It does seem to be user friendly and laid out well, but your video will save everyone so much time in trying to figure out the where, the what and the how’s. AWESOME video.

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I love the way you explained this without assuming the user is already knowledgeable. Thanks for taking the time to do this. It really cleared a lot of things up for me.

Just watched this video after opening my Xr16 air, I am good to go! Every detail covered and am excited to get recording. 👍🏼. Thanks for the kickstart!

I bought the xr18 and never know how to use it, until now. This is so far the best tutorial. Thanks alot. I have not even use this xr18 unit for several years cuz I didn't know how to use it (It was collecting dust).