Behringer X Air XR18 Reviews

For the money great entry level digital mixing

Great value. We use this with a five piece function type band, all on in ears and it works a breeze. Everybody takes control of their own monitor mix, the effects are extremely useable and the whole thing is simple to operate, and hey one small rack case and an ipad beats hauling a big desk around everywhere. Only minor gripe is the onboard wifi is hopeless and you will need to upgrade to an external router for gig work

Excepcional Digital Mixing table

It's amazing.

All the features, easy configuration and pricing.

We use it for Tv shows for a round tables, managing 4-5 microphones but the possibilities are infinite.

AMAZING bang for buck stage mixer / 18 channel interface

I use this live and in studio. For both purposes is this device amazing. If Uli Behringer's dream was to make essential gear accessible to the masses, this is his dream come true: now you can mike your drums (with included FX such as gate/comp/reverb), and still have channels for the rest of the band, with 6 dedicated monitor outs for every member if need to be. You need a minimal networking knowledge to make the wireless function rock-solid: you need a dual-band router for cutting through crowds, use a dedicated subnet (I've used 192.168.6.0/24, as .0.0 and .1.0 are usually taken), and use DHCP reservation for your devices -- if you do this, it will never fail once. Create 4 mix groups ("DCA"), label and color-code everything as you want, store presets for different stages / studio. It has very good built-in effects, such as plate, hall, modulation delay, and compressor types. Oh, and, you can record your show / mix into 18 individual tracks via USB any time you want. The unit is actually smaller you would imagine, so you can carry it in a backpack. Buy it today.

fantastic mixer at the price.

i've been using this at gigs for nearly 2 years (that's about 200 shows). 2 mics, 1 acoustic guitar, plus various keys and guitar processors, so typically 12-14 channels in use. i've also used it in a home studio periodically.

good points: 1 - sound quality is fine; 2 - reliability has been perfect; 3 - functionality and features are quite good; 4 - very easy to set up and use.

bad points: 1 - the built-in wifi is nowhere near good enough for use at gigs (a good dual-band router is a must if you want to take it on the road); 2 - i've used various control devices, and their GUI implementation varies between ok and poor, but i've found using an iPad or other tablet is the best option.

it's a fantastic mixer for the price, but when i can afford to spend more i will invest in something with better audio specs, more reliably functional user control interface and with a better set of recording options.

Really handy

This thing is awesome paired with my iPad Pro. Small. Fits small bag and is easy to put where ever on stage. Good inbuild efects. One star away from the easily breaking blastic antenna and awfull laptop app. Works perfectly with pad.

Nice console

a super compact console with a lot of futures and decent sound

Great Digital Mixer

Awesome, Very portable and great quality mixer.

FANTASTICO

i'm a huge fan of these midas designed pre's. sound is great. ease of use is uncompromised and the price is nearly a joke!! my only problem is i wish it has 2x more aux outputs to make it 8x mixes and 2x for L+R.

its the ultimate IEM rig! an it wont break your back!!!

best think for everything

i think its the best soundcasrd for home studio and more,does it all

Portability

It is far heaven a very good product because it?s allow you to have a quality sound with low price.

Does what it should do, great value for the price

This mixer is the best out there regarding value for the money. Easy to work with, app is decent, but the (not free) Mixing Station app works better.

Only thing which is a big downside in my opinion, is the lack of USB key playback and recording capability, what the XR16 does have. It's very easy to record a simple 2 track of rehearsals on a USB stick , as you can do on the X32 and the XR12-16. The XR18 can't do that, and you always need a laptop and DAW for recording.

Didn’t think something this great would be so affordable!

I’ve been wanting my band to go digital mixer for ages! This was too good to refuse and so far has been a revelation. Great quality product, easy to use and great free app. There are after market apps for personal monitor mixing that work well with a few bugs. Would be good if behringer made one, but overall all is great

Superb product

Really much value for the price

Good product Easy to control and use

Good product

Easy to control and use

As expected

A good item. Just what you would expect. Very easy to understand fro a beginner and lots of fun stuff to do if You have experience with this stuff.

We are using this for our in-ear monitoring systems. And there have been no problems up to now.

Excelent. The digital console has many available features that can make a non-professional sounds really good. The compressors, gates, parametrics eq and others are amazing, very clear and ok.

Brilliant piece of kit from Behringer

I've never understood the negative bias so many seem to have for the Behringer name. I've found their gear to be good value for money and perfect for musos like me playing in covers bands at weekends.

When we needed to buy a new PA I did some research and found this was getting great reviews. And so it should - it's simply brilliant. Very easy and intuitive to use - and so many vids on YouTube to help you. I can't believe how much this little box can do for so little money. Sounds great and has greatly reduced the time we take to set up and helped move us to in-ear monitoring.

I think the Behringer app works better on android phones that iPhones but other than that I can't fault it.

All around wonder!

Having worked with Behirnger mixers before I knew what to expect using this one in a gig, but what really surprised me was its use in the studio.

I've used it to record my band and the ease of use is amazing!

Awesome!

Best for the price. I definitely recommend it! The things I can do with it is far more than I expected.

best option for small party or band!

Behringer X Air XR18 small and very effective mixer.

easy to use and setup