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.
No comments:
Post a Comment