Welcome to the Routing Worksheet Set!

Thanks so much for joining the group of audio technicians who have a firm
grasp of their channel routing and board workflow!

Over the years of doing digital live audio, I have found that nothing can beat
having a written workflow of your channels. If you are in the planning stages of an
upcoming band or complex service or if you have had the same routing for the
last few months, having a written plan of your channels will ultimately help you be
organized and efficient.

This set will give you a variety of different worksheets to help plan your physical
inputs and outputs, as well as your mixbus and DCA assignments, channel routing
and also has spots to notate if channels have a polarity reverse or need phantom
power.

I have made these sheets to be fillable in your Adobe Acrobat program to give a
professional feel when printed. If you are in the brainstorming stages, just print
off the blank sheets to fill out with a pencil or a pen! You will be glad you did this
planning before the day of the show or service!

Thank you again for being a part of dBB Audio!

Drew Brashler
Instructions for use:
You have a couple of options for filling these sheets out: You can either fill them out in any pro-
gram that can read .PDF files or you can print them out and fill them out by hand. Either way, it’s
best to start is with the ‘Physical Routing & Assignment’ page. This page is left blank for you to
write all of the instruments or pieces of the band that require audio. There are 32 slots on this
page, so if you fill it up, you may have too many XLR inputs! Once you have all of the pieces writ-
ten down, write what physical input you want each item going to.

Once you have the inputs listed, next you want to think of the layout of your board. I always find
that I like the channels that I am going to be adjusting constantly (like vocals and lead guitar) to
be on the 1st layer of the board. The channels that I will have set and wont be adjusting through-
out every song, like the drumset, I will have on the 2nd layer of the board. This way, I have access
to the correct channels at the right time. Don’t forget to fill out if those channels will require a
polarity reverse or phantom power!

Next, copy the ‘Physical Routing & Assignment’ on to the ‘X32 Inputs & Outputs’ page. If you
choose to type into this sheet, it will populate the inputs to the following pages to save you time!
Don’t forget to list what outputs you will need during the show or service. Things like PA Left, PA
Right, Subwoofer and In Ear Monitors will need a physical output, so make sure to plan this now.

The ‘X32 Channels’ page will list the channels that you listed from the previous page and you
can now make notes of your microphone or location, phantom power, polarity or any additional
notes that you want to make.

After having all of the channels listed, the ‘Channel Bus & DCA Assignments’ page will help you
plan for the mix busses.

We will need to plan the outputs. I have included a ‘Matrix’ and ‘Output Routing Destinations’
page to help plan the output side of the board. You can also list what type of signal tap you will
need on the outputs such as Post Fader, or Pre Fader.

Lastly, we come to User Routing, Version 4 firmware update brought 1-to-1 patching to the
Behringer X32, and it is perfect for those wanting to use advanced routing!

Once you have finished this, print them out and keep them close by! If anyone on your team has
a question about what input to plug something into, direct them to this packet!
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purpose

scene name

description / note
date

scene #
Physical Routing & Assignment

X32 Physical Input

X32 Channel Assignment

Microphone/Pickup Type
location

Phantom Power
Polarity Reverse
Additional Notes
 X32 Inputs & Outputs

purpose date

scene name scene #

description / note

X32 Input X32 Output

01 XLR 01
02 XLR 02
03 XLR 03
04 XLR 04
05 XLR 05
06 XLR 06
07 XLR 07
08 XLR 08
09 XLR 09
10 XLR 10
11 XLR 11
12 XLR 12
13 XLR 13
14 XLR 14
15 XLR 15
16 XLR 16
17 AUX 1
18 AUX 2
19 AUX 3
20 AUX 4
21 AUX 5
22 AUX 6
23
24
25
26
27
28
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29
30
31
32
AUX1
AUX2
AUX3
AUX4
AUX5
AUX6
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Chan.

08
07
06
05
04
03
02
01

32
31
30
29
28
27
26
25
24
23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
09
purpose

AUX6
AUX5
AUX4
AUX3
AUX2
AUX1
Item scene name

description / note
X32 Channels

date

scene #

X32 Physical Input

Microphone/Pickup Type
location

Phantom Power
Polarity Reverse
Additional Notes
 X32 Block Routing

purpose date

scene name scene #

description / note

Channel Processing Block Patch - Record

1-8 9-16 17-24 25-32 AUX IN

Local 1-8 Local 9-16 Local 17-24 Local 25-32 Aux Ins

Channel Processing Block Patch - Play

1-8 9-16 17-24 25-32 AUX IN

Card 1-8 Card 9-16 Card 17-24 Card 25-32 Aux Ins

AES50 A Outputs

1-8 9-16 17-24 25-32 33-40 41-48

Output 1-8 Output 9-16 Output 1-8 Output 9-16 P16 1-8 P16 9-16

AES50 B Outputs

1-8 9-16 17-24 25-32 33-40 41-48

Output 1-8 Output 9-16 Output 1-8 Output 9-16 P16 1-8 P16 9-16

Expansion Card Outputs

1-8 9-16 17-24 25-32

Local 1-8 Local 9-16 Local 17-24 Local 25-32

XLR Outputs

1-4 5-8 9-12 13-16

Output 1-4 Output 5-8 Output 9-12 Output 13-16
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MAIN L
M/C

DCA 8
DCA 7
DCA 6
DCA 5
DCA 4
DCA 3
DCA 2
DCA 1

MIXBUS 16
MIXBUS 15
MIXBUS 14
MIXBUS 13
MIXBUS 12
MIXBUS 11
MIXBUS 10
MIXBUS 09
MIXBUS 08
MIXBUS 07
MIXBUS 06
MIXBUS 05
MIXBUS 04
MIXBUS 03
MIXBUS 02
MIXBUS 01
CH.
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
Channel Bus & DCA Assignments

scene #
date

description / note
scene name
purpose
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Channel Bus & DCA Assignments

purpose date

scene name scene #

description / note

MIXBUS 01
MIXBUS 02
MIXBUS 03
MIXBUS 04
MIXBUS 05
MIXBUS 06
MIXBUS 07
MIXBUS 08
MIXBUS 09
MIXBUS 10
MIXBUS 11
MIXBUS 12
MIXBUS 13
MIXBUS 14
MIXBUS 15
MIXBUS 16
DCA 1
DCA 2
DCA 3
DCA 4
DCA 5
DCA 6
DCA 7
DCA 8
M/C
MAIN R
MAIN L

CH.
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
AUX1

AUX2

AUX3

AUX4

AUX5

AUX6

AUX7

AUX8

FX1L

FX1R

FX2L

FX2R

FX3L

FX3R

FX4L

FX4R
 Matrix

purpose date

scene name scene #

description / note

Item Additional Notes

MATRIX 1
MATRIX 2
MATRIX 3
MATRIX 4
MATRIX 5
MATRIX 6

Item matrix 1 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 4 matrix 5 matrix 6 m/c main l main r

MIXBUS 01
MIXBUS 02
MIXBUS 03
MIXBUS 04
MIXBUS 05
MIXBUS 06
MIXBUS 07
MIXBUS 08
MIXBUS 09
MIXBUS 10
MIXBUS 11
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MIXBUS 12
MIXBUS 13
MIXBUS 14
MIXBUS 15
MIXBUS 16
M/C
MAIN L
MAIN R
 Output Routing Destinations

purpose date

Output Signal Source

scene name scene #

Output Signal Tap

Additional Notes
description / note

Delay (ms)
Delay (ft)
output
Item
xlr

01 Post Fader
02 Post Fader
03 Post Fader
04 Post Fader
05 Post Fader
06 Post Fader
07 Post Fader
08 Post Fader
09 Post Fader
10 Post Fader
11 Post Fader
12 Post Fader
13 Post Fader
14 Post Fader
15 Post Fader
16 Post Fader
Output Signal Source

Output Signal Tap

Additional Notes
output
Item
aux
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AUX 1 Post Fader

AUX 2 Post Fader
AUX 3 Post Fader
AUX 4 Post Fader
AUX 5 Post Fader
AUX 6 Post Fader
AES L Post Fader
AES R Post Fader
 User Routing Input 1-32

purpose date

Input Signal Category

scene name scene #

Additional Notes
description / note

Input Signal
Input
User

Item

01 OFF
02 OFF
03 OFF
04 OFF
05 OFF
06 OFF
07 OFF
08 OFF
09 OFF
10 OFF
11 OFF
12 OFF
13 OFF
14 OFF
15 OFF
16 OFF
17 OFF
18 OFF
19 OFF
20 OFF
21 OFF
22 OFF
23 OFF
24
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OFF
25 OFF
26 OFF
27 OFF
28 OFF
29 OFF
30 OFF
31 OFF
32 OFF
 User Routing Output 1-32

purpose date

Output Signal Category

scene name scene #

Additional Notes
description / note

Output Signal
Output
User

Item

01 OFF
02 OFF
03 OFF
04 OFF
05 OFF
06 OFF
07 OFF
08 OFF
09 OFF
10 OFF
11 OFF
12 OFF
13 OFF
14 OFF
15 OFF
16 OFF
17 OFF
18 OFF
19 OFF
20 OFF
21 OFF
22 OFF
23 OFF
24
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OFF
25 OFF
26 OFF
27 OFF
28 OFF
29 OFF
30 OFF
31 OFF
32 OFF
 User Routing Output 33-48

purpose date

Output Signal Category

scene name scene #

Additional Notes
description / note

Output Signal
Output
User

Item

33 OFF
34 OFF
35 OFF
36 OFF
37 OFF
38 OFF
39 OFF
40 OFF
41 OFF
42 OFF
43 OFF
44 OFF
45 OFF
46 OFF
47 OFF
48 OFF
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purpose date

Output Signal Source

scene name scene #

Output Signal Tap

Additional Notes
description / note
output
Item
P16

P16 01 Post Fader

P16 02 Post Fader
P16 03 Post Fader
P16 04 Post Fader
P16 05 Post Fader
P16 06 Post Fader
P16 07 Post Fader
P16 08 Post Fader
P16 09 Post Fader
P16 10 Post Fader
P16 11 Post Fader
P16 12 Post Fader
P16 13 Post Fader
P16 14 Post Fader
P16 15 Post Fader
P16 16 Post Fader