Studio Headphone set up??? Help

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Ok guys, describe to me you best bang for buck studio recordin headphone set up with 1 or 2 mixes. I have a good idea of the phones I will use (akg). I have 2 aux sends free on my mackie sr24-4 so I think I am begining to get a picture but I have been wrong before. My objective would be to be able to record a 4 member band (not including vocals) with everyone in seperate rooms. I know you pro's will clue me in!!! Thanks Guys !!!

F.S. / Dave
 
Yo Sigmund:

There are many can set-ups you can buy. You need to check them out in catalogs of major vendors. I have a very very simple Peavey unit in my studio which will do 4 sets of cans in stereo or mono.

Also, I just got a set of Cordless JVC cans @900 MHz, stereo and they can be heard through walls or outside. Check my post to Ralf above as they are detailed there.

These cans are very cool for singers and engineers as no wires = more freedom from "tangles."

Watch out for "good-looking" units that have ugly sound qualities. Check, check and check.

Green Hornet

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Dr. Freud:

Are you a home recordist? What kind of instrumentation? The reason I ask is because I 've found it to be much more natural to record a rock-type band with the musicians in the same room. Invest in some good quality cable for the long runs, put the amps in the other rooms and allow the musicians to visually interact in the drum room. As long as the others aren't knocking shit over, the envirnmental bleed onto the recorded drum tracks is negligible.

I'm a firstclass cheapskate, so I would go from an aux out on the mixer and daisy-chain as many components with headphone outs as possible--boomboxes, old stereo receivers, tape decks, etc.
 
Lazy Boy

Ya I'm doing the home thing. I have 3 beadrooms upstairs and 2 batherooms to work with. the drum room is to small to fit any one else in and not get massive bleed through. It is about 12 x 15
I don't mind bass and guitar in the same room because I run the bass direct, but I do not want them in the mixing room with me because I need to hear what I am getting put down so that spreads me out a bit. I am thinking of putting a window in but I don't want to destroy my house because I plan on moving in a year or two. It sucks!! but I am sort of stuck for now. Next house I will do what ever needs to be done because I plan on staying there for a long long time.

Oh ya Instruments are a huge drum kit. Two guitars and a bass, plus vocals.



F.S.
 
Must be a "really huge" drumkit. My makeshift drum room is 12x10. :)
 
Have all the gtr palyers and bass players in the control room. Use transformers to go from the output on their gutiars into a balanced mic cable then into another transformer to go back to unbalanced into their amp in one of the rooms. You have you use transformers to keep the buzz out of the long runs back to the amps.

That way the gtr players and the bass player can hear what they are playing in the mix and you don't need headphones for them.
 
Well I don't know?

Do you mean guitar palyer and amp in different rooms? I think you have to have the player in front of the amp. I don't use reverb at all even live but the sustain you can get from being in front of the amp is pretty irreplaceable. As for our other guitar player he would not know what to do with out the feedback. It is hard enough to get him to play dry.


F.S.
 
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