They can hear both the music and themselves at a decent volume, but a lot of times they want it to be louder. Not everyone complains about it, but even I agree a bit that I wish I could get it a little louder as well.
The Mix knob on my audio interface(FTP) is set in the center so you can hear both the vocals coming in and the music coming out evenly.
The volume of the vocals coming in are set to where they won't clip (After a good mic check)
The music is also set as high as I can get it with out clipping in my DAW(Reaper)
The volume knob for the output is set as high as it can get as well
The master knob in my DAW is set to 0db.
I've also switched out headphones, and it's been the same issue, so I don't think it's the headphones.
Is there anything you need me to be more specific about? Can you be more specific about how you want me to be specific? (Lol, bad joke, no disrespect)
Well, if you have multiple headphones all plugged into one output jack, that could be the problem (and a headphone amp would help).
This definitely affects it, and I've noticed it before too. But even when I record myself, I find myself wishing I could turn everything up louder, and I'm using a single 1/4'' jack in those instances. So, while it does make matters worse in my situation, they were still not as good as I would have liked them to be originally.
If you're not laying down the loudest tracks to a recording first, this can often be a problem. It took me awhile to figure out that even if I had perfect timing and knew where everything went, it was really hard to record an acoustic drum set and hear guitars in headphones.
A headphone amp is a great idea, and you can find certain models for relatively inexpensive prices at a lot of retailers, which can be good for some one on a low budget. You could also try isolation headphones that they usually make for people to record drums so that they can hear everything inside of them while blocking out any other noise. Make sure that if you buy isolation headphones, though, you buy the kind that have speakers in them and not the kind people wear for gun shooting practice.
I'm trying not to ramble here, hopefully this has something useful in it (I'm having a hard time expressing myself, today.)
In my case, the music is already recorded and I'm trying to record the vocals. The truth is, I've been looking at getting a headphone amp for a while now. I'm leaning towards the one I linked above, but there is also another one for about half the price of this one. I'm a college student, and very frugal, so I like to save money when I can. Right now I'm just debating with myself on which to get. The cheaper one is
Amazon.com: Behringer HA400-MICROAMP 4 Channel headphone amplifier: Electronics
If anyone has any experience with either of these feel free to chime in