[ddots-l] Re: Good advice and/or articles or information on the best ways to set up multiple headphones.
- From: "Chi Kim" <ms22282@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:33:21 -0400
Hi,
Like Joey was saying, if you can afford those headphone system which players
can setup their own mixes up to 8 channels including volume, muting, and
panning, that's the way to go.
My school studios use them, and I've been recording at commercial studios
with those systems, and everybody's happy. No more complaint about mix.
Chi
----- Original Message -----
From: Gordon Kent
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Good advice and/or articles or information on the best
ways to set up multiple headphones.
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
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