rotherdrummer
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Hi
I have a small rehearsal room at home with 2 electric drum kits. At the moment, I've got a pair of headphones connected to each drum kit but I would like to hear both kits at the same time (as I'm teaching my son how to play). I don't want to use Jamhub (or similar) as I would prefer not to wear headphones at all. Both electric kits have standard 1/4" mono outputs. I could simply purchase 2 x small amps for each kit, but for the same price I thought I might be able to get more for my money. My initial thought was to purchase a small powered mixer with a single passive speaker. I was going to opt for something like a Behringer PMP530M powered mixer with a Behringer Eurolive VS1520 or a VS1220F speaker. I've done some research and I believe that either of these speakers should be able to cope fine with the frequencies created by both electric drum kits (please correct me if I'm wrong). However, I've got a couple of concerns:
1. The powered mixer is expecting a pair of speakers for the output, right? How would a single speaker effect the sound? I'm not sure the Behringer PMP530M has the ability to pan the sound to a single left or right output. Would this be a problem or will it simply output everything to one speaker by default?
2. I'm a recording novice, but one advantage of using a mixer is that it will provide me with the ability to centrally control both kits (to a certain extent i.e. volume) and also record the output. However, I have noticed that the Behringer PMP530M does not have a line-out. It doesn't even have a Phones output. It does however have a Rec-Out, but I'm not sure what this is?
3. I have also looked at non-powered mixers, as they seem to have more options, but they sometimes have outputs such as 'Tape-Out' and I'm unsure whether that's the same as a regular line-out?
4. At the moment, I only have a laptop with a standard microphone socket. If I opted for a mixer with a Phones output, what would be the difference between recording via the Phones output and regular Mic input as opposed to using a proper line-out and line-in sockets?
Any advice would be much appreicated
Thanks
John
I have a small rehearsal room at home with 2 electric drum kits. At the moment, I've got a pair of headphones connected to each drum kit but I would like to hear both kits at the same time (as I'm teaching my son how to play). I don't want to use Jamhub (or similar) as I would prefer not to wear headphones at all. Both electric kits have standard 1/4" mono outputs. I could simply purchase 2 x small amps for each kit, but for the same price I thought I might be able to get more for my money. My initial thought was to purchase a small powered mixer with a single passive speaker. I was going to opt for something like a Behringer PMP530M powered mixer with a Behringer Eurolive VS1520 or a VS1220F speaker. I've done some research and I believe that either of these speakers should be able to cope fine with the frequencies created by both electric drum kits (please correct me if I'm wrong). However, I've got a couple of concerns:
1. The powered mixer is expecting a pair of speakers for the output, right? How would a single speaker effect the sound? I'm not sure the Behringer PMP530M has the ability to pan the sound to a single left or right output. Would this be a problem or will it simply output everything to one speaker by default?
2. I'm a recording novice, but one advantage of using a mixer is that it will provide me with the ability to centrally control both kits (to a certain extent i.e. volume) and also record the output. However, I have noticed that the Behringer PMP530M does not have a line-out. It doesn't even have a Phones output. It does however have a Rec-Out, but I'm not sure what this is?
3. I have also looked at non-powered mixers, as they seem to have more options, but they sometimes have outputs such as 'Tape-Out' and I'm unsure whether that's the same as a regular line-out?
4. At the moment, I only have a laptop with a standard microphone socket. If I opted for a mixer with a Phones output, what would be the difference between recording via the Phones output and regular Mic input as opposed to using a proper line-out and line-in sockets?
Any advice would be much appreicated
Thanks
John