Monitoring Ways..

[tju85]

Would this be possible?

I'm using Logic Studio. Would it be possible to give me bassist, drummer, and guitar player all different mixes by doing the following.

Create 3 AUX's in the DAW.

AUX 1 is for the bassist, AUX 2 is for guitarist, AUX 3 is for drummer.

I set their mixes each up in the recording program from the incoming tracks. IE like bass player will obviously want more of his bass in his headphones than the guitar

THEN.

I could route each AUX out a different output on my firepod, since I have 8.

So AUX 1 would go OUT3-4, AUX 2 would go OUT5-6, AUX 3- OUT7-8

The whole rest of the mix would go out the regular outputs, 1-2.

All I would like to do now is find a headphone amp that has 3 headphone outputs, but lets me put a different input on each channel.

Like the Behringer HA4700, but with an input on each channel. I see it has an AUX on each channel..would that work?

Sorry if this question is a bit confusing.

 

[ssscientist]

Not a confusing question at all - it's something that every engineer who works with live bands needs to confront before tracking can begin.

You've come up with a good plan, but consider the advantages of using something like this --- link --- as an all in one solution without tying up your Firepod. Send 4 prefade aux sends from the board into this 'Headphone Matrix Mixer' and you can let the musicians decide for themselves how they want their headphone mixes balanced.

If you record without a mixing board, patch a single line into each of the 4 available channels from your Firepod and take the stereo mix into the 'stereo' bus.


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[tju85]

So, with this I could output say the Bass, drums, guitar, and vocals into a firepod output for each one.

Then plug them into the Mackie at like

A- bass
B- drums
C- guitar
D- vocals


and then each person could create their own mix?

With the "Stereo Mix" what exactly would I put in that? Everything that isn't in the bass, drums, guitar, and vocals mix?

 

[ssscientist]

Something like that. You need to see what suits your needs.

These are new on the market and I've never used one --- I found it on the web thru another HR question, but Mackie is known for good gear and it's a good price. And nothing I've seen out there will do quite the same job.


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