12-31-2020, 05:30 PM
I see what you mean, and it's a conundrum to me as well. While it sounds as if the unit can't do direct monitoring in the first place, I know that it can. How? By simply putting on my headphones, plugging them into the Phones/Ctrl jack, turning the mixer on and listening. I can hear the wall clock in my studio ticking, the sound picked up by the overhead condenser mic. The computer is off... to me, that is "direct monitoring". I'm hearing exactly what the mic is picking up and feeding into the mixer. I control the volume by the phones volume control knob.
Now I turn on the computer, load up JK and open a private session. Nothing changes. Still hearing the exact same thing I was hearing before I started up the computer and JK app. So, again to me, this is "direct monitoring"; I'm still hearing exactly what the mic is picking up and feeding into the mixer, NOT what is being sent to JK and then returned to me through the USB connection.
I also have a Presonus Fire Project AI I use, and it works just fine, conforming to the general JK admonition that if direct monitoring is off I should hear nothing in my headphones until I enter a JK session. With the mixer, I hear a signal, the same signal, the entire time.
The only reason I quoted that part of the Quick Start guide was that it was the only thing I read that even offered a suggestion about any kind of "monitoring", and I wanted to hear what others thought about what this might mean. I know Behringer is notorious for "hiding" user info, or at least being unclear about how things work --- for example, try to track down the difference between the "QX" and the "X" model of this mixer... and why no user manual for the "QX", but a full manual for the "X"? Rabbit hole questions, for sure.
This is more a PIA than anything... I'm fine using the Firestudio unit, although it doesn't have all the effects, compression, gain, volume, etc. bells and whistles, just a single volume (gain) knob foe each channel, and the latency is not stellar. But it works. It just drives me nuts when I run into things like JK telling me to make sure direct monitoring is turned off and.... well, where the hell is the knob/button/lever/string/rope I push, pull or yank to do that????
Now I turn on the computer, load up JK and open a private session. Nothing changes. Still hearing the exact same thing I was hearing before I started up the computer and JK app. So, again to me, this is "direct monitoring"; I'm still hearing exactly what the mic is picking up and feeding into the mixer, NOT what is being sent to JK and then returned to me through the USB connection.
I also have a Presonus Fire Project AI I use, and it works just fine, conforming to the general JK admonition that if direct monitoring is off I should hear nothing in my headphones until I enter a JK session. With the mixer, I hear a signal, the same signal, the entire time.
The only reason I quoted that part of the Quick Start guide was that it was the only thing I read that even offered a suggestion about any kind of "monitoring", and I wanted to hear what others thought about what this might mean. I know Behringer is notorious for "hiding" user info, or at least being unclear about how things work --- for example, try to track down the difference between the "QX" and the "X" model of this mixer... and why no user manual for the "QX", but a full manual for the "X"? Rabbit hole questions, for sure.
This is more a PIA than anything... I'm fine using the Firestudio unit, although it doesn't have all the effects, compression, gain, volume, etc. bells and whistles, just a single volume (gain) knob foe each channel, and the latency is not stellar. But it works. It just drives me nuts when I run into things like JK telling me to make sure direct monitoring is turned off and.... well, where the hell is the knob/button/lever/string/rope I push, pull or yank to do that????