adjusting levels of other musicians in your headphones

[Meduslacis]

Hello!
I decided with my band mate to play with headphones, plug our instruments in audio interface, then signal goes to DAW and back to our headphones. My drummer wanted option to adjust how much he hears my guitar in his headphones
Is there devices who could do it?

 

[PorterhouseMusic]

I would think latency might be an issue?

Even if not - something like this is what my band used for a while - and might be more suitable for your purpose:

Behringer | Product | HA8000

www.behringer.com

 

[Steenamaroo]

Hi. Welcome to the forums!
There's a few ways to do this but, yeah, that's one.
If your interface has multiple outputs then you could use a headphone amp with multiple ins, like that one ^,
then you'd have to have a submix in your recording software.

So you'd have main mix -> out of interface 1+2 -> Into headphone amp 1
then a submix -> out of interface 3+4 - > Into headphone amp 2

There are easier to manage solutions which take multiple separate channels out from your daw and send them to a control unit with headphone output, volume knobs, etc, but they're pretty pricey solutions!

I'd probably tell the drummer to pop one side of his headphones off.
The loudest guy in the room wants to hear himself better... ?‍

 

[Farview]

Also, the drummer can turn his headphones down to the point that he can hear his drums naturally. I used to do that all the time. The only thing in my headphone mix that was kind if loud was the click.

 

[TalismanRich]

I've been getting together with some friends and we are using real drums, but direct in for the bass and guitar, plus vocal mics.

One day the drummer commented that he and I weren't really in sync, I tended to be ahead of him. It was because I really couldn't hear his drums so well with my Senn HD280 with the bass and my guitar going. The solution for me was to bring my AKG 240s which are open back. It gave plenty of bleed, meaning the drums come through nicely. Things improved drastically.

 

[grimtraveller]

I've played in the past with a couple of guys who were so loud, I could never hear what I was playing and literally went by feel.
They were some of my best playing and recording ! But I hated it while we were actually doing it.
For years now, I don't bother to have the drums in the phones because

Also, the drummer can turn his headphones down to the point that he can hear his drums naturally

 

[TimOD]

Many audio interfaces, such as the Focusrite 18i20, which I use, can give you up to 5 separate mixes, whereby you can adjust the levels of the individual inputs/players and the DAW output to suit each mix that goes to those players.* These are latency-free, because they bypass the DAW, though any input(s) can be recorded. One must mute any input in the DAW that is being recorded or you will hear the delayed signal being fed back into the monitor mix. It's pretty much fool-proof, and is the way to go. The 18i20 is about $500.00 or so, though its smaller cousins (like the 18i8) are cheaper. Do yourself a favor and get something like this. It's well worth it. You can always really step up and get something like the RME HDSPe RayDat (about $1000.00), which has incredible functionality insofar as custom monitor mixes go.
*We're a two-man band, and I'm rarely playing while the other guy is drumming, but I simply mute all the drum mics and some of the other mics and I have no trouble hearing those drums in the small room we're in.