Behringer XR18 EQ & Connection Help

Fine on the Genzler DI straight to the XR18.

 

What @Geri O said

EQ tips? Gonna depend on the room. . I prefer to send (and receive when running FOH) a clean FLAT bass, so I can adjust it for the room. Bass/Kick are the hardest ranges to clean, separate and make space for in the mix.

 

Do you mean EQ with your amp or EQ with the Mixer? My personal preference is to send the Board a Pre DI signal, so there is no EQ applied. This gives the audio tech a blank pallet to work with. This makes sense because often the main mix requires a bit different EQ than is used for on stage monitoring. Also the frequency response of PA speakers is often very different from musical instrument speakers. IMHO, since your drummer is running sound, ask what he/she wants.

The monitor sends on mixing consoles can be configured different ways. My personal preference is usually for the monitor sends to be setup Pre EQ. The idea here is the audio tech may have to do some really serious carving to get the bass to lay well in the main mix. Often with a small system, your amp will pretty much dominate so the audio tech will only put a little bit of mids into the system to increase clarity. But if someone on stage needs bass in their monitor they need more of the lows. Since the lows have been EQ'd out for the main mix, you can't use a post EQ setting on the monitor send. Flat is by no mean ideal...running audio involves quite a bit of compromise. There are ways around this problem with a larger, more capable mixer, but they are rarely used because they add complication and confusion.

 

I missed that part of the OP.. IME - the drummer should be the LAST person in any band to be running sound , unless someone is telling you what to do.
Otherwise, the drums will occlude anything else.
S/He probably owns the PA ??

 

I thought that might be the case.. but honestly, both as a bassist and a freelance FOH guy, the drummer should never be the one mixing a band from stage. I could list 1000 reasons, but the main ones are logical.
Nothing but drums, terrible location to listen to a band mix, and so on..

 

I used to run sound from stage while playing bass. We did a long and extensive sound check before the gig with the mixing console out in front of the band. Most of the sound check was done without bass. When it came time to set the level of the bass, I went up on stage and the keyboard player dialed me into the mix. The final part of sound check involved moving the mixer to the stage and dialing in my monitors. I set my monitors post fader so they would track any changes I made to the main mix.

Hard to imagine it working this way with a drummer running sound.

 

IMHO having him EQ and mix the drums while you play them is not a good strategy. It's unlikely that you will hit the drums the same way he does.

 

In this case it is only said to be "kick and 1 x overhead" (I guess only the BD has to be tweaked), so it shouldn't be much of problem.
But in general I agree with you, the touch of a drummer is a delicate thing.