Question for Behringer HA4700 users

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I'm thinking of buying this headphone amp and I have a specific need that I cannot verify can be met from reading the manual.

Is there a way to mute the Main Outs and still output through the headphone channels? My problem is that I can only use one output at a time with my Layla24 and N-tracks setup, and the headphone out in the Layla uses the analog out, while the monitor uses the digital out. Therefore whenever I want to switch between monitoring via headphones or studio monitor, I have to go into my N-tracks preferences and switch outputs. I would rather do this with the push of a button.

Some kind of A/B switch would accomplish this, of course, but I would like the functionality of a multi-channel headphone amp as well. Or it may be time to break down and buy an outboard mixer to send the signals to headphone amp or monitors from the mixer, but that adds expense, clutter, and complexity.

So, can I mute the Main Out on the HA4700 separately from the headphone outputs? I'm not asking for general rants against Behringer or recommendations to get new audio software or a new card. :)
 
I'm pretty sure you can't mute the main out separately from the headphone outs. From Behringer's perspective the purpose of the main out is to connect additional headphone amps. Thus, they saw no reason to add such functionality. Now that you mention it, that would be a nice feature to have.
 
Thanks, Gonny. That's the way I was understanding the HA4700's functionality from reading the manual. I was just hoping.
 
If anyone has one of these units, I'm curious as to how they like them as I may be possibly be looking for a multiple headphone amp in the future.
 
They work and they get fairly loud. They have a very harsh top end though, and not too much on the lows. What they do well is be cheap on the wallet and drive your headphones.
 
i've got the 4800 and it does what i expected it to do--get signal to headphones and allow me (with aux sends on my board) to send 4 different mixes to band members.

soundwise, it kinda sucks. harsh high end, wimpy lows, some channels are hotter than others (and some will distort at the same level as others are happy on). very typical behringer "quality". but it always powers on, and it always passes signal. and no one's bitched about the sound quality yet--granted they're usually listening through some "more me" cans, and they're not exactly "critical listening" headphones. :D

it's worth $100. but certainly not any more than that. and when this one dies, i'm going to look at one of the better units by Oz, Rane or Symetrix. for an "entry level studio", the HA4700/4800 is a fine unit. it'll do the job.


cheers,
wade
 
Cool, My intended future use would be for a band doing rehearsals without using a vocal pa, and instead using headphones for monitoring. I would save on setup, too much volume, and feedback of course. I'm assuming that it is loud enough to handle that job and sound....decent.

Thanks for the replies, if anyone else can chime in, please feel free.
 
Krimson, that is exactly what the Behringer is good for. In fact, the harsh high end and slight lack of lows could actually be helpful in your situation since you will probably get a decent amount of low end bleed from the kick and amps anyhow:)
 
Thanks xstatic, sounds like a good unit for me then. Much appreciated ;)
 
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