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Headphone Mix

Postby StudioQ » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:06 am

I am a "Board Newbie" with a basic question. How do I set up separate mixes for headphones ?
Thank you for your help
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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby Crash » Mon Mar 26, 2012 2:08 pm

How many mixes do you want? It is all about the aux sends...
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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby StudioQ » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:01 pm

Thanks for the response.
A separate mix each for Headphones 1 & 2

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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby Casey_Pittman » Mon Mar 26, 2012 7:42 pm

I use aux's 9&10 and 11&12 for two stereo HP mixes. Useful to have the pan feature but not always needed.

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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby Crash » Mon Mar 26, 2012 9:07 pm

I usually build a mix on faders than use the "copy mix to cue" function and then tweak further based on what the musos ask for.
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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby StudioQ » Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:34 am

Thanks for the replies. I am sorry if the following is belaboring the obvious but I tested as follows:
Guitar Track 1
Bass Track 2

In the Headphones/Cue mix 2 section I got the following-
With guitar and bass up and control room button lit I hear the same in the phones as the speakers.
With guitar up and bass down I pressed 'Copy to cue' and selected 'Cue 1' from the display
With bass up and guitar down I pressed 'Copy to cue' and selected 'Cue 2' from the display.
In the headphones I could hear the guitar only by pressing 'Aux 9-10' (in the Headphones/Cue mix 2 section)
In the headphones I could hear the bass only by pressing 'Aux 11-12' ( " )

Is that the usual way or is there a alternate method. I was a little puzzled by the flow chart in the manual which showed
Cue mix 1 and headphones 1 together and similar for 2.

I am wondering if anybody knows of a practical user guide or videos showing use of the d8b in common studio situations.
The manual does not seem to be geared in that direction.

Again many thanks.
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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby Crash » Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:12 pm

Selecting control room will mirror what you hear in the control room. It looks like you are heading in the right direction. Think of the aux 9&10, aux 11&12 as a select button in the sense that you could have headphones 1 and 2 both monitor aux 9&10 or 11&12 if you wanted. Typically the way Casey runs his is pretty normal.

I find the manual to be pretty straight forward. Are you looking for something specific on operations?
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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby StudioQ » Wed Mar 28, 2012 5:23 am

I think what I would benefit from is a hands on hour or two with someone who is comfortable enough to go over the basics of the board, particularly routing, busses, aux etc.
Even though I have had the board a long time and use it I am basically self taught and would probably learn more in a session with someone more experienced than I can from the manual.
I would appreciate any suggestions.

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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby Phil.c » Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:21 am

As Crash mentioned, use your 9/10 & 11/12 aux in other words just use them as faders to get the right headphone mix.

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Re: Headphone Mix

Postby Crash » Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:14 pm

What part of the world do you live in?
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