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Originally posted by JoHoozaFats...
This may seems like it may work. Except I can only give one headphone mix. For example, if the bass player needs more bass but less guitar, i can only seem to find the happy medium. ( i'm using an ART headphone amp to feed the musicians)
Is there a way around this?
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Here's how to do it without buying a fairly expensive specialized cue mix system:
If you want stereo cue mixes, you'll need a mixer with four aux sends, preferably prefader. If you only have two prefader sends available, you can still create seperate cue mixes, but they'll be mono.
Then you'll need either two seperate headphone preamps (something cheap like the Rolls will do) or a box that allows two seperate stereo inputs and outputs that are selectable between the two. Fostex makes such a box (PH-5) that is not much more expensive than the Rolls.
Now just send Aux's 1-2 to headphone Box #1, and Aux's 3-4 to headphone box #2. By changing the Aux level on each individual mixer channel (representing a stem of a different instrument or instrument group) you can easily give more vocalist to the vocalist, for instance, without giving it to the drummer.
If you have a mixer with six aux sends, for instance, you can create 3 unique stereo cue mixes or six mono ones. Or some combination of the above (like 2 stereo and 2 mono, 1 stereo and 4 mono, etc.)
I actually use 12 aux sends (two mixers with 6 aux's each, hooked up in series - insert points out of one mixer into line ins of the other). This lets me easily create 6 unique stereo cue mixes. Then I just have a bunch of those little headphone preamp boxes (Rolls, etc.) for each musician.