My husband purchased one of your xr8600 peavey mixer the problem hes having is he cant get the echo settings right.please can you help.

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You should contact Ppeavey customer service. Here's the link-
Peavey com

I suspet you have it connected in such a way that the ohmage the power amp section is seeing is toolow cauysing it to overheat and then fail.

take it to the shop, we fix them all the time...

You CAN drive the power amps from the main amp inout jacks BUT the rest of the inout of the 8600 would be dead then. You can connect the L and R from the FX24 to either the media RCA jacks or into the channel9/10 jacks. FOr the latter, use TRS cables. Leave the two selection buttons in the up position.

You MUST turn off the echo from the computer OR remove the sound card to line in connections. The tape out goes through the sound card and immediately back out to the tape in and around it goes for feedback.

I don't believe there is a mute function on the XR684F unit. There is a mute on the XR8600 but they probably use different boards in it. The mute button for the XR8300 and XR8600 are near the effects selector button and LIKELY is board mounted and would not have a J111 connector. If the electrical function is in the XR684, it MAY just be pads like test points, to only be used during testing and troubleshooting.

Check the pan cotrols are at 12 o;clock.

Verify your speakers are identical and speaker cord length is about the same.

Swap speakers to make sure it is not the speaker,

There are SEVERAL things to set. First is setting the EFX mix for those channels you want the effects to be active. Next, select the effect you want AND the TIME for the effect and FINALLY the amount of the effect output to go to the MAIN and MONITOR outputs. Also the effect disable button below the effects needs to be in the correct state. ALL of these have to be set for using the effects on the mics.

Here is a link to the manual:http://www.peavey.com/assets/literature/manuals/00513220_7.pdf I didn't look at the manual for the crossover but this is probably the way I would do it. Look at page 13 in the manual : Come out of the Main out (31 in the diagram) into the main in of your crossover. Go out of your crossover Hi and Mid out setting back into Power amp In 1 (labelled 32 in the diagram). Hook your speakers that you normally use to the output jacks on the back of the Peavey. Make sure you match the output impedances. Go out of your crossover low output into the Pyle power amp and out of the Pyle into your subs. Make sure the impedance ratings of all your speakers match the output impedances of your amps. You will only be running in Mono mode as that is the signal output of the Peavey mixer. You can run faux stereo by using the Main monitor Out as 1/2 the pair and the Main Out as the other 1/2 to both channels of the crossover but you won't be getting a true stereo pan mode.