Using more than one headphone

[Whyte Ice]

I do alot of DI like bass, keys, drum machine and such and I like to record live with others but when I have mics setup to do vocals at the same time too, you can always hear the music bleeding into the mics because we're playing live through the monitors. I'd like to have everyone wear headphones to cut this down but I only have one headphone jack coming out of my mixer.

I have a Delta 44 soundcard and two of the output jacks go to the Tape In jacks in my mixer and my mixer has one headphone jack. Is there anything I could do or anything I could get to increase the number of headphone jacks?

 

[Garak]

You can split the output of the headphone jacks and add a few more sets of headphones but this isn't the best way todo it. What mixer are you using? If you have a few free prefader aux sends use them to mix mono headphones mixes, Then get a few headphone amps, just about anything that has line inputs and headphone outputs can be used as a preamp. I use and old casset deck, I just had to jam record on with no tape in it. I use simple little y cables to split the output from the aux send into the two left and right channels.

 

[sjoko2]

http://www.symetrixaudio.com/Products/304.htm
4 channel headphone amp - plug it into your console headphone output and it provides 4 headphone inputs, each with its own volume control.

http://www.symetrixaudio.com/Products/506.htm
Same as above, but giving 6 instead of 4 headphone inputs.

We sell both of them, if you're interested email me for the prices.

 

[Randy Yell]

Behringer Powerplay headphone amp is selling for $80 now.You can power up to 12 sets of phones w/four different mixes.Looks pretty sweet for the money.Look in the Musicians Friend catalogue.