Sorry Sean and anybody on the list that I might have led astray, I guess I misunderstood a response earlier from Phil on this same subject. I hope no one's fried there equipment because of my advice. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Muir" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:28 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: head phone amp
Sean wrote: Phil, so as to not start an opinion war. Please explain to Jim and others, that this is a quick way, but not optimum. Phil replied: agreed. I haven't used that method hear at all. An alternative way of doing this would be to use all balanced cables for theheadphone amp and monitors etc. You could use a balanced jack that has two stereo sockets on the end of it. You would need two of those. One for the left output of the FW-1884, and one for the right. You would then plug oneof the headphone amp outputs into the left hand jack lead and the leftoutput to your monitors into the other left hand socket on that cable. Youwould then do the same on the right hand one. Have used cables like thishere for a number of years with 0 issues and checked out the implications ofthis, with a good friend from Absolute music over here in the UK before actually doing this. Another up side of this is totally 0 latency monitoring as you can use the FW-1884's hardware monitoring feature. The down side though is that your monitors and headphone amp are on the sameoutput so when recording, you would have to turn your monitors off or, downwhen tracking. Sean wrote: many of you may not know, but I have created a template that allows for more then one master output for multiple room monitors, as well as a template that allows for using the auxiliary outputs for things like headphone monitors and other line level devices. a Headphone amplifier is not supposed to receive amplified signal. Only line level, otherwise you can easily fry the operational amplifier of the headphone amp. Phil replied: Creating a template like Sean's one is a good idea. The upside to this is that you don't have to use any strange cable configurations and you can give vocalists affects such as reverb whentracking. The down side to this could be if you have a slower system as youwon't be able to use the 0 latency hardware monitoring feature on the FW-1884. This could mean that when tracking, you may hear a slight delay when using affects through Sonar and this could potentially be an issue. With regard to frying the op amps on headphone amps, not had that happenhere and from reading the FW-1884 manual, all outputs are balanced line so,I can't see this being an issue. Having said that, I am using a Behrenger headphone amp so, wouldn't be that concerned if I fried anything, LOL! Regards, Phil Muir Accessibility Training Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK +44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> URL: http://www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/ PLEASE READ THIS FOOTER AT LEAST ONCE! To leave the list, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type unsubscribe For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the immediately following link: ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq or send a message, to ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and in the Subject line type faq
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