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Need to get more volume on the headphone monitoring box!

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Hello experts,



I have a recording studio at home. I dont have a wall between the tracking and the control room, so its difficult to provide good levels of monitoring when recording a full rock band, even when using closed-circumaural headphones.



Can you recommend me a good and cost effective active headphone box? Or a power amp for the passive box I have?



Here's my set up:



Interface: Focusrite LS56

DAW: Cubase 6

Headphones: 4 X Sennheiser HD280 Pro

Passive Monitoring: RedcoAudio Little Red Cue Box (http://www.redco.co…"]Redco Audio - Custom Audio Cables - Recording Studio Supplies - Custom A/V Panels - Little Red Cue Box[/]="http://www.redco.co…"]Redco Audio - Custom Audio Cables - Recording Studio Supplies - Custom A/V Panels - Little Red Cue Box[/])



-No amps for the guitars, or the bass

-Bass and guitars recorded as line inputs, so no external sound is being picked up, only direct sound from the amps

-Only the drums are mic'd



The drums are so loud, the headphone mix can't reach enough volume to play properly.



Please help!

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audiokid
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audiokid

bouldersound, post: 383276 wrote: The Behringer HA4700 is a four output headphone amp with lots of useful features. It's one of their better products and a good option in that price range.



I had to look. Less than $120 for this box. Wow. How do they make money on that. It looks great but how does this thing sound? I use the Little Red Cue Box too. Made in the good old USA. Solid metal and good pots. I like it for what it is, but it cost more than the HA4700 and is only a volume control. Its clean sound and screws nicely onto a mic stand or sits securely on a flat surface.



Protect your ears.

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 10:54 Permalink
bouldersound
bouldersound

audiokid, post: 383277 wrote: I had to look. Less than $120 for this box. Wow. How do they make money on that. It looks great but how does this thing sound?



I guess how it sounds depends on your perspective. It's decent. For the OP it will be a nice upgrade to fix the inadequate volume. I've had ground/hum problems connecting unbalanced sources to its balanced main inputs, but the aux inputs are unbalanced anyway and work fine with unbalanced sources.



For road use I'd be a little nervous, but it's so cheap you could have a NIB spare on hand.

Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:09 Permalink