Behringer WING 48-Channel Digital Mixer

Description

The Behringer WING 48-Channel Digital Mixer is a 48-stereo-channel digital mixer that’s both ultra-powerful and incredibly easy to use. Benefit from first-class hands-on control, thanks to 24 smooth-feeling motorized 100mm faders, a capacitive touchscreen, adjustable display wheel, and touch-sensitive rotary controls. Capture sound with the utmost in quality, courtesy of eight MIDAS Pro mic preamps, while a bevy of digital I/O options provide near-limitless connectivity.

Digital mixers are insanely powerful; thus they can seem intimidating. That’s not the case with the WING. Despite its deep feature set, it’s a breeze to navigate. Its interface centers around a large capacitive touchscreen that’s augmented by touch-sensitive rotary controls. Best of all, its three fader sections and Custom Controls section can be tailored to your personal requirements. It doesn’t get much more intuitive than that! Whether you require a specific bus send fader next to the corresponding channel fader, or a meticulously configured custom channel that’s always at the ready, the WING is made for the way you want to work.

The WING is jam-packed with I/O — 374 inputs and outputs, to be exact. And if you include its internal signals, the WING includes 400 inputs and outputs. Faced with this much I/O, Behringer’s engineering team reimagined the flow of a traditional mixer, putting the emphasis on your source audio, using what Behringer calls — quite fittingly — Sources. In the WING, inputs are much more than historical inputs, because they contain metadata on what the Source is — tags, input icon, input colour, gain, phantom power, and if the Source is mono, stereo, or mid-side. All of that information follows the Source to any channel. With one simple button, that information can be copied to the channel, and the tags, icon, colour, and other metadata show up on the channel immediately. If you move a Source to another channel, the information goes with it, no need for old fashioned copying and pasting.

With so much focus on Sources, the WING has to go beyond the historical definition of what a channel is as well. With 374 Sources, a single 1-channel input seems a little underpowered. That’s why the WING has redefined what a single channel can do. Each of its 48 channels — 40 Inputs plus eight returns — can operate as mono, stereo, or mid-side. And when you assign a stereo Source to a channel, it automatically renders the channel in stereo. On top of that, each channel features an alternate (ALT) input that can be stereo as well, which makes toggling between two Sources a breeze.

Key Features:

• 48-stereo-channel digital mixer with 40 stereo input processing channels, as well as 8 stereo aux channels.
• 28 stereo buses — 16 stereo aux buses, 8 stereo matrixes, and 4 stereo mains.
• 24 smooth-feeling motorized 100mm faders in 3 separate, configurable sections.
• 1” capacitive touchscreen, adjustable display wheel, and rotary controls provide touch-sensitive channel editing.
• 8 MIDAS Pro mic preamps and MIDAS outputs ensure that you capture high-quality sound.
• 3 AES50 ports provide plug-and-play remote I/O connectivity for up to 144 input and output signals.
• AES50 networks are compatible with MIDAS M32 and Behringer X32 mixers.
• 32-channel StageCONNECT interface for personal monitoring or analog I/O boxes.
• Includes AES/EBU stereo digital I/O, 2 headphone connectors, MIDI I/O, and 4 GPIO ports.
• Compatible with Behringer and MIDAS digital snakes, including the S16, S32, SD8, SD16, DL16, and DL32.
• WING-LIVE card captures up to 64 channels of 32-bit/48kHz audio to a pair of SD or SDHC cards.
• Optional expansion cards supply Dante, SoundGrid, or MADI support.
• Built-in 48-in/48-out USB audio interface with HUI and Mackie Control DAW remote functionality.
• Sources put the emphasis on your source audio rather than on your inputs and channels.
• Apply names, icons, and colors to each Source for at-a-glance identification.
• Each channel can be either mono, stereo, or mid-side — no channel linking required.
• 16 true-stereo processors with effects from Pultec, SSL, SPL, Neve, Focusrite, dbx, Universal Audio, Elysia, and Empirical Labs.
• Auto-Pilot supplies fast and dependable automixing with 2 groups of gain sharing.
• Dual solo/monitor buses per channel for monitoring over phones/IEM and/or floor wedges.
• Support for binary and OSC communication for remote operation.
• WING Co-Pilot tablet app enables you to label or set parameters while patching from the stage.