BEHRINGER X AIR X18 Digital Mixer

Mix from a tablet, keep every track.

Rehearsal, Tuesday night. Halfway through the new song, the bridge finally works and the harmony lands. With the X18 in the room, you mix from a tablet and record every channel as it happens. Tomorrow, every separate track from the take is ready to mix again.

Every channel on its own track

Sixteen Midas-designed preamps take microphones and line sources. Inputs 1 and 2 have high-impedance preamps for guitar and bass. The 18 x 18 USB audio and MIDI interface records up to 18 channels at once and plays 18 back. Mix the take later on your computer, when the room is quiet.

Hear the take through dedicated monitor outputs

Unlike the XR18, the X18 has RCA outputs for a pair of active studio monitors. The control room button sends them the main mix or your headphone and solo signal. The RCA inputs bring in an MP3 player, an iPad or another mixer.

A balance for every player

With no router, the integrated Wi-Fi module connects up to four tablets or computers directly. Six aux sends feed stage monitors or headphone mixers. Add optional P16-M personal mixers over Ultranet, and musicians set their own balance.

Features

• 18 channels: 16 mic preamps plus a stereo RCA line input, and 4 effects returns
• 16 Midas-designed mic preamps: programmable preamps on XLR combo jacks with switchable 48 V phantom power
• Guitar and bass inputs: inputs 1 and 2 have high-impedance preamps for direct connection
• Mix from a tablet or computer: control all software functions from an iPad or Android tablet, or a Mac, PC or Linux computer
• Built-in Wi-Fi: internal antenna and an access point for up to 4 devices, so no external router is needed
• Three network modes: connect over Ethernet, as a Wi-Fi client or as an access point
• 18 x 18 USB audio and MIDI interface: record 18 channels at once and play back 18 from a computer
• Computer and tablet support: Windows 7 or higher, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or higher, iOS 7 or higher on iPad, and Linux
• Studio monitor outputs: RCA outputs carry the main mix or the headphone signal, selected with the control room button
• 6 aux buses and main LR: six balanced jack aux sends and two XLR main outputs
• 4 stereo effects engines: the same effects as the X32 mixer, including reverb, echo and chorus
• Three EQ types on the buses: 6-band parametric, graphic or true EQ on the main and monitor buses
• Real-time analyser: see the spectrum before or after the EQ while you adjust it
• Auto mix: assign mic channels to either of two auto mix groups
• Personal monitoring: Ultranet port connects P16-M personal mixers or P16-D distribution hubs
• MIDI in and out: DIN MIDI ports send and receive MIDI with external equipment
• 40-bit floating-point processing: 0.8 ms analogue I/O latency including channel and bus processing, excluding insert effects
• Power supply: autorange 100 to 240 V switch-mode supply with 30 W power consumption