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Monday, March 25, 2013

Q Is it possible to achieve a ‘silent’ band setup?

To enable very quiet band rehearsals, I am thinking of feeding the whole band setup into my Behringer RX1602 Eurorack Pro mixer. This would be a guitar and bass through DI boxes, and I might be able to get my hands on an electronic drum kit. I’d then wire the mixer up to a headphone amp. If everyone gets a pair of headphones it should be pretty quiet from the outside. Could you tell me if I’m on the right track for what I want to achieve?
Via SOS web site
SOS Editor In Chief Paul White replies: 
While you can certainly use a mixer and its built-in monitor capabilities to do this, you’d still need to add a multi-channel headphone amp. These need not be expensive, however. Most mixers are also designed for mic or line-level inputs, not instruments, so you would need to use electronic keyboards, guitar DI preamps and electronic drums as sound sources.
A possibly neater solution is to look at the JamHub system, which has been specifically designed for the application you’re trying to achieve, though it would obviously require more of a financial commitment. It’s available in three models with varying numbers of inputs and outputs. So, depending on the model you choose, it could work with a maximum of seven musicians, each of whom can have a stereo instrument input and a mic input. This includes separate headphone amps for each performer, with control sections where everyone can set up their own monitor mix. We’ll be reviewing this in a forthcoming issue of Sound On Sound, but you can check out the details at www.jamhub.com.

The JamHub is designed to give you as close to a ‘silent’ studio as possible.
You may not be able to achieve a totally silent rehearsal space this way, but, presuming you are using electronic instruments, this kind of setup should definitely offer a serious reduction in sound levels.  

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