Skip to main content
jasonmayer
jasonmayer
Participant
January 25, 2023
Question

Studio Recording with XR18 and Audition (St. Augustine Beach, FL)

  • January 25, 2023
  • 1 reply
  • 1314 views

My setup is this:

  • Mixer:  Behringer XR18
  • Software:  Air X on a PC
  • Connection:  USB to XR18 (and using onboard WIFI for XR Management)
  • DAW:  Audition on PC using USB connection

 

I'm trying to record the following tracks one at a time to mix into a finished product.

  • Rhythm Guitar
  • Lead Guitar
  • Bass
  • Drums
  • Vocals

 

I've finally gotten to what I would call competent, but far from an expert, with mixing on my XR18.  Now I would like to record what's coming out of the Main L/R to Adobe Audition.  I figured out to lay down multitracks and can record, but am really struggling with a bunch of aspects of this.

 

First, none of the effects are recorded.  I have the "I" clicked thinking that would include them in the final mix that's recorded, but there are no effects applied.

 

Next, I'm having huge issues with playback.  How do I get the recording back into my XR18 for playback so that I can play the next instrument with each mix after the last was added?  I'm envisioning doing this like I do when I practice drums; I play the song from my iPad which is plugged into 17/18 for playback.  So with each "mixdown" how do I play in back to the system so I hear it in my monitor, while playing and recording the next instrument.  Then, I want to do it all over again, and then mix the final song in post (after capturing each track).

 

Can someone help with this workflow and connectivity.  I know it's asking a lot, but dang-it, I've sat through a bunch of tutorials and haven't found anything that walks through how to do this with my exact setup.

 

Thanks in advance!

- Jason

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
Community Expert
January 25, 2023

First thing you have to realise - and I think you have - is that this isn't the most straightforward mixer in the world to use like this, due to the 'virtual' nature of its controls. Also, nowhere I can see in the manual does it mention, for instance, that to work as a multichannel interface with Audition on a PC it needs to use an ASIO driver. Without that you'll only get two channels in and two channels out. But it's going to be virtually impossible to give you step by step guidance because none of us that I'm aware of has one of these mixers. And, we're an Audition U2U forum so really, it's somewhat beyond our remit. The only thing I can gather is that you can assign mixer channels to be either inputs for recording, or playback channels. Presumably what you need to do is find out how to do this, and proceed from there. It's all in the manual, but I'd be the first to admit that it's going to be a bit of a slog...

 

As to the specific issue of recorded effects: Audition only records dry - whatever internal effects are used. This is standard industry practice, and prevents you making a mistake that you might come to regret when you have a perfect track with far too much effect permanently on it - if you see what I mean. If you add an effect in Audition to a track, you'll hear it in the monitors when you play it back, but only as long as it's still present on the track - IOW it's playing the dry track through the effect again - so if you remove it, then it goes.

 

I hope that's at least a little help...

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices