[ddots-l] Re: head phone amp
- From: "Phil Muir" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 12:43:04 +0100
Hay Sean. Interesting read. . BTW, that article wouldn't open in Internet
Explorer however, was able to read it in Firefox. Very odd.
Regards, Phil Muir
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Sean A. Cummins
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 12:21 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: head phone amp
FYI: And not to beet a dead horse...
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/speaker_to_line.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Jackson" <cs2007@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:50 AM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: head phone amp
> 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 the
>> headphone 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
>> one
>> of the headphone amp outputs into the left hand jack lead and the left
>> output to your monitors into the other left hand socket on that cable.
>> You
>> would then do the same on the right hand one. Have used cables like
>> this
>> here for a number of years with 0 issues and checked out the implications
>> of
>> this, 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 same
>> output so when recording, you would have to turn your monitors off or,
>> down
>> when 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 when
>> tracking. The down side to this could be if you have a slower system as
>> you
>> won'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 happen
>> here 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
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