[ddots-l] Good advice and/or articles or information on the best ways to set up multiple headphones.
- From: "Laurie Simpson" <simp749@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:11:19 -0400
Hi guys,
Let me try to explain my subject a bit better. I just recently recorded 5
people in a recording setup for a cd. I have a Mackie Onyx 1620 mixer. I
have an Oz HR-4 headphone amp. I went from the aux sends on the mixer to
the inputs on the HR-4 for 4 of the people and used the mixer's headphone
internal amp for the fifth person. In general this setup worked but there
were a number of times when it was frustrating. I would be told that some
particular part was too loud so I would go and turn down that person's aux
send on the offending channel. The y would continue to say that the part
was too loud and I had turned the aux send down as far as it would go. I
didn't want to turn down the master aux send for their headphones because
that would turn down every part. So I would end up turning down the gain
which would also turn down the signal going into the sound card. I find
that the gain is what gives volume for the aux sends, not the level slider
at the bottom of each channel. I can leave those completely off and the
sends still work. For the person using the headphone amp in the mixer
itself, I muxt use the level sliders but that was never a problem. Is there
any clear detailed information out there describing possible ways to setup
mixes for musicians or vocalists being recorded? I know that it's been
discussed here sometimes to assign tracks to different busses, but how do
you do that and have everyone hear all tracks, or some people only to hear
certain ones? Also I was asked if there was a way to play the rhythm track
only for one person and not for everyone else. Of course this was the
person who was plugged into the mixer's headphone amp.
Any advice or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Pleas feel free to
discourse at length. I'd like as much help as possible.
Thanks!
Laurie
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