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Headphones - query volume
I'm currently in the process of building a home studio, the components of
which are relevant to my question are my monitors (Alesis M1 Active Mk2) the mixing desk (Behringer UB1622FX-PRO) and my PC's soundcard (Soundblaster Live! + Live!DriveII). When recording vocals, obviously the monitors need to be muted, and the backing track needs to be audible to the vocalist (and, if possible, the sound recordist) through headphones. What I have found is that the easiest way of muting the monitors is simply to plug the vocalist's headphones into the Live!Drive; this kills all output from the PC to the mixer. However, output to the headphones is too quiet for the vocalist to sing along to. The headphones I'm using at the moment are cheapies I bought years ago (Unitone HD-3030). Obviously pricier cans would give better sound, but what I want to know is: would they also give louder volume than the cheapies? Are there such things as headphones with built-in amplifiers? The alternative is to plug the headphones into the mixing desk; this way I can turn up the backing track to the volume the vocalist requires. The frustration with this is that I can only mute the monitors by switching them off, which entails either pulling the mains plugs or reaching around the back of the monitors to feel for the power switches, both of which would get tiresome after a few hours' recording, and I can't imagine would do the monitors much good either. Thanks in advance. -- Cliff http://www.psychophile.co.uk |
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Headphones - query volume
"Smogo" wrote in message
... The headphones I'm using at the moment are cheapies I bought years ago (Unitone HD-3030). Obviously pricier cans would give better sound, but what I want to know is: would they also give louder volume than the cheapies? Are there such things as headphones with built-in amplifiers? Further to this, I suppose what really should be asking is: am I getting low volume out of my cheap cans because they're cheap, or is it because the Live!Drive doesn't give much power out of its headphone socket? Ta Cliff |
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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
news:znr1078756957k@trad... The way to get around this is to get yourself a dedicated headphone amplifier. Excellent; thanks for the advice! Cliff http://www.psychophile.co.uk |
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