Headphone Amp... Beat that!
Headphone Amp... Beat that!
This is my headphone amp. The doctor says my hearing may come back in a week or so.... I said, 'what?' Seriously, is there a better headphone amp then this? I hear Nigel Tufnel used them during the recording of the Spinal Tap soundtrack.
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The one Behringer unit that most folks agree is OK: Headphone Amp.
Mackie HMX56. I use it to drive headphones, and my active monitors. No better bang for buck available.
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Re: Headphone Amp... Beat that!
as long as you're not playing a guitar through it you are ahead of the curveDerrick wrote:This is my headphone amp. The doctor says my hearing may come back in a week or so.... I said, 'what?' Seriously, is there a better headphone amp then this? I hear Nigel Tufnel used them during the recording of the Spinal Tap soundtrack.
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I roll with a pair of these little guys:
Connected to a handful of these:
For those keeping score, that's a Bryston 2B-LP, 60wpc amp and the Proco HJ-4P. It's a good system, obviously with way more power than needed for a simple pair of headphones. But, when I have a group the size of our big band in the studio, I actually drop 16-18 pairs of headphones onto one stereo amp, so they ask for a lot of juice all together.
Those little Proco boxes are really helpful too. They daisy-chain easily, and the switches kick between stereo & mono on one side, and mono from left or right on the other switch. And the volume controls are for left & right ears separately in case you have the mix split with click on one side and music on the other... or whatever. I had the folks at Proco customize them with Speakon connectors so that my monitor patch points on the wall and across the floor are 'speaker level' connectors - that protects me from clumsy students plugging amp outputs into active speakers, or daisy-chaining mics into the headphone boxes, or whatever stupid things they might think up to do.
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Connected to a handful of these:
For those keeping score, that's a Bryston 2B-LP, 60wpc amp and the Proco HJ-4P. It's a good system, obviously with way more power than needed for a simple pair of headphones. But, when I have a group the size of our big band in the studio, I actually drop 16-18 pairs of headphones onto one stereo amp, so they ask for a lot of juice all together.
Those little Proco boxes are really helpful too. They daisy-chain easily, and the switches kick between stereo & mono on one side, and mono from left or right on the other switch. And the volume controls are for left & right ears separately in case you have the mix split with click on one side and music on the other... or whatever. I had the folks at Proco customize them with Speakon connectors so that my monitor patch points on the wall and across the floor are 'speaker level' connectors - that protects me from clumsy students plugging amp outputs into active speakers, or daisy-chaining mics into the headphone boxes, or whatever stupid things they might think up to do.
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I got one of these Alto HP6 units, and really it's pretty damn nice. It was getting a little hum this last weekend, but I think I have some a/c noise issues in my studio that are causing that.
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I can dig the Marshalls, but it seems like that's an awful lot of drivers for a headphone system...
unles the plan is to duct tape a cabinet to each side of the drummer's head.
And believe me, I ain't trying to show off (much) with that rig. In my personal stash I have a used Symetrix 4-output headphone amp and a little home-made battery operated one I made for my location recording rig, and a little Rolls battery operated portable. I would use a combination of all of those when I would try to do overdub session with my location rig.
But I think I might be one of only a handful of guys on here who regularly has 18 people in the studio at once. Hell, next week we're doing a gospel choir that has 34 singers, so I'll pop the headphone drivers off the headbands and have them hold one can to one ear so 2 people share a pair... it seems smarter than buying another 16-20 sets of cans for one gig.
I also learned about that setup from the school studios at Univ. of Colo. at Denver where they had little 1-space, 30 or 40watt power amps (Symetrix, I think) running to passive headphone boxes.
That's where I was in school before here, so I kinda copied what I knew.
-Jeremy
unles the plan is to duct tape a cabinet to each side of the drummer's head.
And believe me, I ain't trying to show off (much) with that rig. In my personal stash I have a used Symetrix 4-output headphone amp and a little home-made battery operated one I made for my location recording rig, and a little Rolls battery operated portable. I would use a combination of all of those when I would try to do overdub session with my location rig.
But I think I might be one of only a handful of guys on here who regularly has 18 people in the studio at once. Hell, next week we're doing a gospel choir that has 34 singers, so I'll pop the headphone drivers off the headbands and have them hold one can to one ear so 2 people share a pair... it seems smarter than buying another 16-20 sets of cans for one gig.
I also learned about that setup from the school studios at Univ. of Colo. at Denver where they had little 1-space, 30 or 40watt power amps (Symetrix, I think) running to passive headphone boxes.
That's where I was in school before here, so I kinda copied what I knew.
-Jeremy
Yes, this monitor produces great AC/DC noises. Seriously, the idea here was also for our drummer to hear in tracking. Worked like a charm... just sent a mix buss to it via the line in jack. He had his very own EQ stack and volume right there next to him.
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Yeah, I grabbed a used one off of eBay, and I'm diggin' it.workshed wrote:I got one of these Alto HP6 units, and really it's pretty damn nice.
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yep, me too.
Jim_Boulter wrote:Yeah, I grabbed a used one off of eBay, and I'm diggin' it.workshed wrote:I got one of these Alto HP6 units, and really it's pretty damn nice.
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