Jakester Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 A weird one, this: I use a wireless mixer for our band's gigs - an XR18. It's great, but the only thing that really bugs me about it is the lack of any hard mute or volume control. We've had a couple of horrible feedback moments in the past when setting up which, on an ordinary mixer, you could kill in seconds, but on the XR takes a couple of moments to find the correct screen and fader - and even more time if the device controlling it has gone to sleep. I also have a slight (probably irrational) fear of some horrible digital error from one of the connected synth devices blowing the speakers if I can't reduce the level quickly. I have a Behringer Xtouch which works fine as a hard controller; however, it's just one more thing to lug around and for smaller gigs a bit of a pain. I was wondering if there was any in-line volume controller or kill switch which would work and came across this: https://www.gear4music.com/Recording-and-Computers/Behringer-MONITOR1-Passive-Monitor-Controller/20L4 Although it's for monitoring, I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work with the main PA outs - it has the 'instant' kill if needed and you can reduce vol a touch easily during a song using the vol control. I assume to set it up effectively you'd set it for max vol at the usual gig volume and only tweak it if needed. So - any reason I should get that to run the main PA feeds (to powered speakers) through? Any other alternative products? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 You've got me wanting one of these now (🙄) even though @Silvia Bluejay and I have been using an XR18 for two years without any situation arising where we'd have needed it! I can easily see it as a belt & braces thing mind, especially since Silvie's attention has to be split between the PA and her video cameras. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakester Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 Lol - I've been using ours for a while too. We only had a couple of occurrences - usually the singer walking in front of the speakers or something, but it's just that slight feeling of a lack of control. I don't know why they put a headphone control but not a master level control/mute on it too. I'm not sure whether it's the right thing or not - as you say, it's belt and braces and if there's no obvious reason why not then relatively cheap too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvia Bluejay Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Although, as Jack says, we've never needed something like that so far, it looks like a great little device for emergency use in those unfortunate cases when the tablet loses its connection to the XR18 at exactly the wrong moment. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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