Laurie: If you turned the appropriate aux send down completely and were truly plugged into your headphone amp from that send, there is no way that they should have heard anything from that channel. Make sure that the sends you are using are set for pre fader. I will say this though, and please don't take this the wrong way. If musicians are acting that fussy about what they are hearing, it usually indicates that they are not really sure of themselves in the studio. I haven't messed with separate cue mixes in a long time. With the exception of a couple of weeks ago in a live situation at church, where the drummer and I were playing along to a click so I had to set up a separate cue mix with the click and programmed bass etc. along with my keyboard that I was playing live. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Laurie Simpson To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:11 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Good advice and/or articles or information on the best ways to set up multiple headphones. 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