TheRealWaldo
New member
Here's a probably very simple question.
I'm going to be doing a record in a way I haven't attempted before.... A very small practice studio, isolated, but unfortuneatly, the band has stated that they aren't comfortable with doing the record track by track... The room is about as large as most drum-rooms I've worked in.
So, I'm going to have to do a 'one shot', multi-track record (basically live). I'll be dropping guitars through direct boxes into a mixer (which will be a rental, as my stuff was all stolen a while back...), and micing the drums, so that I get little to no bleed from the drums in such a small room.
Now, to do this, I'd like to have all 4 artists on headsets, to hear the mix from the board. This would mean a total of 5 headsets between myself and the artists, as we will all be crammed into this small room.
I assume there is a 'splitter' box of some sort that I can route all the headsets through, so that each artist could hear the mix as they play, exactly the same, off the cue of the board. Am I correct? I assume this because if I just connect the headsets in series via. splitter cables, I'm going to lose the signal quality and volume (more resistance, etc.), and would require an amplifier for each set to be proper.
This is a low-budget, volunteer record... I wanted to do this track by track, which would only require the one headset, but the artists have stated that they rely on cues from eachother rather heavily, and are not comfortable with that sort of record. We also have a major time limitation in the studio, maybe 4-5 hours to do 4 full songs.
Let me know,
W.
I'm going to be doing a record in a way I haven't attempted before.... A very small practice studio, isolated, but unfortuneatly, the band has stated that they aren't comfortable with doing the record track by track... The room is about as large as most drum-rooms I've worked in.
So, I'm going to have to do a 'one shot', multi-track record (basically live). I'll be dropping guitars through direct boxes into a mixer (which will be a rental, as my stuff was all stolen a while back...), and micing the drums, so that I get little to no bleed from the drums in such a small room.
Now, to do this, I'd like to have all 4 artists on headsets, to hear the mix from the board. This would mean a total of 5 headsets between myself and the artists, as we will all be crammed into this small room.
I assume there is a 'splitter' box of some sort that I can route all the headsets through, so that each artist could hear the mix as they play, exactly the same, off the cue of the board. Am I correct? I assume this because if I just connect the headsets in series via. splitter cables, I'm going to lose the signal quality and volume (more resistance, etc.), and would require an amplifier for each set to be proper.
This is a low-budget, volunteer record... I wanted to do this track by track, which would only require the one headset, but the artists have stated that they rely on cues from eachother rather heavily, and are not comfortable with that sort of record. We also have a major time limitation in the studio, maybe 4-5 hours to do 4 full songs.
Let me know,
W.