Setting up headphones for location recording

[Joshua Estock]

Hello all my fellow sluts! I hope you all had a merry Christmas. I know I did!

Anyways, I recently got a job recording a band, but they want me to record them at their place, which is fine. My dilemma is headphone routing. I am currently using an apogee ensemble and some SCA pres, as well as some outboard compression. I have never actually used this rig to record drums before. I am really hesitant to run the cable from the headphones all the way from the Ensemble, into another room, to the drummer. To me that seems a bit sketchy. What is the best solution for this?

I have contemplated buying a headphone amp and simply running aux outs directly to it and then plugging the headphones into the amp. Will this work? It seems logical, but I just want to double check before I buy something.

Cheers,

Josh

[JEGG]

Instead of a headphone amp, why not buy a little mixer-perhaps one of the very small Mackie's. They have good headphone amps, and would offer flexibility later as a headphone mixer or just a mixer to use for other applications.

[hbphotoav]

At the risk of booing and sneering, the Behringer HA-8000 headphone mixer/amp is a nice bit of usable kit. Either feed it a stereo aux mix; or up to eight individual auxes (which is how we use it); or a stereo mix with a "more me" balanced insert point (line level) on each headphone channel. About $150. We drive the cans lines through about 200' of snake from FOH to the stage.

Let the jeering begin!

HB