[tINY]

Originally Posted by cojo67

How exactly does this "hearback" system work?

I am running a MOTU 24 I/O with a PCIe card. How would I hook these together and how does it work?

... if I had either one of those feeding the "hub" of the hearback would it have EACH channel of outputs available to mix on each "mixing station."

Think of it like a matrix mixer (if you know what that is). You put 8 channels into the hub (a single ADAT optical link can be used). Then, you hook up to 8 mixers up to the hub using cat5 wire. Each of the mixers can blend the 8 channels + a local channel into the headphones that are plugged into it.

So, mix the 8 channels (say drums, vox, Gtr, and playback) and send them to the hub, then each player can create his own mix from those channels. They can hear what they need and everyone can hear something different.

Lots of times, there is only 1 or 2 mixes and everyone in the studio has to listen to one or those mixes (and nobody likes the guitar as loud as the guitarist does...).



-tINY