I've heard it was possible, but how?

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this is the situation:

I'm about to buy a behringer headphone amp(can drive 12 units, with eq, left and right mute, lots of functions for $80) for recording. What I want is to be able to send the exact same output that goes to my stereo amplifier to the headphone amp, so that the talent can hear the exact same thing I am hearing on my speakers.

Now, I have two fostex 3013 patchbays that I got a while back but have never used.

My questions:

Is it possible to use the patch bay to split the signals and send one stereo pair to my stereo amp and the other to the headphone amp?

If it is, how do I do it?

Will a patchbay reduce the quality of my monitoring?. As it is, I dont have the best system for monitoring(alesis ra-100 and yamaha ns10ms,bruce don't laugh) and I dont want anything reducing the level of detail I can hear.

Does anybody know about the fostex 3013? are they pieces of junk? I got them used of somebody and they dont have an instruction manual.

WHat cables do you recommend?

thanks a bunch. All your comments will be very helpful
 
Yo CJ of the Jungle:]

I don't know if this will work for you but it works for me.

I have a can amp and all I had to do was run a stereo patch plug, 1/4 inch, from the headphone patch, of your recorder, to the amp.

Then, you just plug in your can cords, which I'm assuming are 1/4 inch, to he inputs of the amp. Voila -- you can hear and all the others you want can hear. I only have a 4 patch amp but that suits my needs. With 12 patches, you can have 23 other ears listening as you listen in too.

I hope this works.

Got to go; Tarzan is swinging.

Green Hornet




:D :D :p
 
yo stinger who art camoflaged :D
the delta 1010 does not have a headphone out.

right now, what I am doing is going directly from outputs 1-2 to my amp. What I want to do is send outs 1-2 to the patchbay and somehow split them into the amp and the headphone amp.

I wish that the delta 1010 had more than one output with monitor mixer(only outputs 1-2 play all the info coming from software as well as the inputs at the same time)

BTW, the patchbay is a 32 point 1/4 patchbay if this helps.
 
Yo CJ:

I would think Bruce, or Sonusman, or one of the guys/gals would know how to link up your can amp.

Sorry I couldn't help.

There is an answer out there and maybe "Mulder" has it?

Cheers,
Green Hornet
 
The 3013 won't help you, I'm afraid....

The reason is that it is an unbalanced PB.... it won't pass 2 channels of signal thru the jacks....

You could use a balanced PB to split off signals, but it's no different than using a stereo Y connector.... (except with the PB you have the convenience of mult'ing the signal and daisy chaining it as many times as needed -- of course, the more times you split it, the more you degrade the signal - splitting once using a simple 2-conductor (stereo) Y-cable will be no problem...

Bruce
 
thanks bruce, you are right.It wont work with this model. Shoot. I tried messing with it last night, and it would not send to two places at the same time.

I guess I'll just have to go with the y-cable. THanks.
 
Without wanting to even seem like contradicting The Bear, if you are running a normal stereo signal out of you s/card why cant you run the Left and Right channels through adjacent points on the p/bay.....
i.e: Left channel from s/card to rear, top input of p/bay.......rear lower of p/bay to power amp. Repeat in the next points on the p/bay for Right channel. Now, whether your bay is normalled or un-normalled by default shouldn't matter as the signal passes through the bay on the way to your power amp AND you should be able to "mult" off the top front jacks to another destination. In your case the headphone amp.
I hope like hell I'm right because this is exactly what I intended to do here in the next few days......LMAO.

Peace.........ChrisO :cool:
 
ausrock, that sounds like it might work, but say it again, slowly. I got lost in there somewhere.

THis is a full-normalled patchbay, if it makes a difference.
 
ausrock,

no workie. I sent the stereo signal to the first two points on the rear top of the pbay, and then sent another stereo signal from the rear bottom to the power amp. Pluggin another signal to the front top sends it to the other amp, but mutes the 1st amp. Seding the stereo to the bottom mutes the 1st amp but does not send to the other amp.

I think your method will only work with a half-normalled patcvhbay.
 
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