connecting behringer xenyx q802usb to garageband

When you leave the Phones/CTRL Room button in the up position but activate the USB/2-Track to Main Mix button, the inputs (your microphone) will not be sent out of the USB hence Skype will not receive your audio. That’t not good.Īny other setups/routing configurations for the USB will result in one side being muted. I’m not sure why this happens but it means that you not only can’t hear your audio, you can’t see the levels either. Interestingly, this also cuts off the audio meters from displaying your audio levels despite the fact that audio is still carried to the Main Out and you are still sending audio out of the USB. This means you cannot hear, through the Phones output, whatever you are inputting into the mixer via the analog channels…in other words, you can’t hear your own microphone a.k.a., yourself. When this button is active (in the down position), it is also mutes any audio that you are inputting into the mixer’s inputs.

This sends audio that the USB is receiving from the computer into the “Phones” output. To hear audio coming into the mixer via USB from your computer, you need to enable (press down) the USB/2-Track to Phones/CTRL Room button. Here’s how the USB routing buttons on the Q802USB work and how they prevent monitoring in both directions. The next steps were to figure out exactly what the problem was and if I could make the mixer do what I wanted it to do allow me to monitor the audio I’m getting from the computer as well as hear the audio I am sending. I needed to know more so I asked B&H (they had originally supplied the review unit) if I could get the mixer back for some testing and they promptly sent me one to review… again.Īfter hours of testing and endless notes, I confirmed with my own ears and eyes that indeed this was a limitation of the Q802USB.

I searched other videos and reviews and found one that indicated that indeed this was a problem. I posted the video on YouTube and I started to see some comments that alerted me to this potential issue. Mostly because I had never seen it before nor did I know that there were mixers that could not do what seemed like an obvious task. When I did my initial overview video of the Q802USB I didn’t find this quirk. Skype) at the same time when using the USB connection. In other words, you can’t hear yourself and the audio from the computer (e.g. The Behringer Q802USB mixer doesn’t send audio to the headphone output in both directions (in and out) when using the USB to interface with your computer.

Connecting behringer xenyx q802usb to garageband