A couple questions

[Shout It Out]

These are some questions I always ponder becasue i do not have answers for them...
1. Are headphone amps used for headphones in multiple places in studios?
2. How does rack gear work/ what do you plug it into if you record with a stand-alone recorder?
3. Is a acoustically perfect control room a lot better than a sub par control room with parallel walls...(home studios only)

 

[Farview]

1. Are headphone amps used for headphones in multiple places in studios?

Headphone amps take a line level signal and amplify it to work with headphones. You can put them anywhere

2. How does rack gear work/ what do you plug it into if you record with a stand-alone recorder?

A lot of people don't use outboard gear with a standalone.

3. Is a acoustically perfect control room a lot better than a sub par control room with parallel walls...(home studios only)

Yes.

 

[rayc]

Hi
1. Yup & very handy they are. (I actually used some "listening posts" thrown away by a school - 8 mono connections with attenuators- for a couple of years.)
2. Sometimes in a chain, often through a patch bay, commonly not at all. What do YOU mean by standalone? Is it a DAW, a TAPE machine???? A digital contraption?
3. Tune the room if it's below par (bass traps etc) very few h/rec control rooms are approaching OK let alone perfect. You can always break up the parallel walls with projecting things cupboards, shelves, amps etc.

Don't be put off by the lack of perfection - you can/will learn to compensate esp if you use reasonably flat response monitors.
Cheers
rayC

 

[Shout It Out]

Far the stand-alone I was talkign about a multitracking device. I usually record to the stand-alone then send them through cakewalk to be mastered. Thanks for the feedback.