Heaphone Mixs

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i am looking for a cheap but good monitor set up for headphone mixs..

any suggestions?

I'd like to have atleast 4 channels to goto the headphones.
 
I've used the Rolls 1 (pair) into 4 (pair) box and it does the job. A little annoying if you can't get used to a noisy signal as a "click" track but it's got plenty of balls for long cable runs and individual volume controls to compensate for distance and headphone efficiency so the most efficient and/or closest user doesn't get blasted out so the others can hear.

But you'll still need a mixer to do a proper mix of the 4 channels into a stereo mix suitable for recording. Even better if you can provide custom mixes for each player, but not on your budget!
 
hp amp or mixer

If you need 4 input chanels, well that's a bit out of the the scope of most headphone amps. if that's the case you may want to look into a small mixer, Behringer has a few low priced ones.

If a Headphone Amp is what you are looking for, I use the ART HPFX, It runs two mic chanels through it, It has vocal efects that come through on the monitor mix, yet goes out dry to your pre-amps. That's great if you have latency problems with PC recording. You hear yourself wet, yet you record dry, it works great. By the way it has four headphone jacks with vol.

You can pick one up on Ebay for under $150, or online for not much more thath that.

Check the speck's on this baby out at:

http://www.harmony-central.com/Reviews/ART_HPFX/

I love it.
 
Hey.. thanks for the info...



the thing is i have a powerbook with the MOTU inferface and digital performer. As well as Pro Tools LE

For my mixer, i got the Yamaha 01V Digital


soo if i run into the powerplay headphone amp, i can create stereo mixs that i bus out from dp right? or something along those lines....


cause im recording with a 4 piece band. and we can only take in 8 tracks at a time. so i was thinking while the bass and guitar was playing through my headphones and they could hear me through theres.. we could just record the drums, then add them to the drum tracks later...


would that work well?
 
you can record 8 tracks at once, right, first record scratch track, one line for each piece (1 overhead track on the drums). Now you 've got the whole song that your can listen back to for reference, through any Headphone amp.

Now you do each track over, one at the time, while listening to the scratch tracks. Of course as you get a good take on each one, you dump the corresponding scratch track. Since you are recording on a computer, I strongly suggest the ART HPFX(build in vocal effects), the vocalist will thank you for it. Being a singer myself, I know how much hearing yourself dry, or trough plug in effects, can take away from the feeling of a song.

Have fun...

Drums will drive you nuts
 
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