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From: apa on 4 May 2008 13:52
I'm looking into setting up a more flexible headphone monitoring
system for live tracking. I've got the direct outs free on my main
board and thought I'd pick up a cheap line mixer, feed the some of the
DO's (or the buss outs) to it and use aux sends off the extra mixer
to feed a collection of headphone amps. That would let me put the
headphone board out in the performance area and let performers make
their own mixes. I have enough amps around so it would just be a
matter of the mixer and the cabling. Can anyone recommend a small
mixer with at least 6 inputs and at least 4 aux sends and preferably
very little else?
Thanks, Andy
From: clathan on 4 May 2008 16:33
On May 4, 10:52 am, apa <tacom...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking into setting up a more flexible headphone monitoring
> system for live tracking. I've got the direct outs free on my main
> board and thought I'd pick up a cheap line mixer, feed the some of the
> DO's  (or the buss outs) to it and use aux sends off the extra mixer
> to feed a collection of headphone amps.  That would let me put the
> headphone board out in the performance area and let performers make
> their own mixes.  I have enough amps around so it would just be a
> matter of the mixer and the cabling. Can anyone recommend a small
> mixer with at least 6 inputs and at least 4 aux sends and preferably
> very little else?
> Thanks, Andy

You might be able to find a used Yamaha 01V for under $500. It will
also let you store presets for different setups.It comes with 12 mic
pres with line ins on every input plus spdif in and out plus 2 stereo
ins. I use one all the time for a side mixer to my Yamaha DM2000.
From: Scott Dorsey on 5 May 2008 09:52
In article <daac4863-75b3-4198-af9e-2ca88dadf1f1(a)m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
apa <tacoma57(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>I'm looking into setting up a more flexible headphone monitoring
>system for live tracking. I've got the direct outs free on my main
>board and thought I'd pick up a cheap line mixer, feed the some of the
>DO's (or the buss outs) to it and use aux sends off the extra mixer
>to feed a collection of headphone amps. That would let me put the
>headphone board out in the performance area and let performers make
>their own mixes. I have enough amps around so it would just be a
>matter of the mixer and the cabling. Can anyone recommend a small
>mixer with at least 6 inputs and at least 4 aux sends and preferably
>very little else?

The OZ Q-Mix is designed for the application, and Roland used to make
a larger matrix mixer. More convenient than fiddling around with a console
designed for general purpose work.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
From: apa on 5 May 2008 13:01
On May 5, 9:52 am, klu...(a)panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
> In article <daac4863-75b3-4198-af9e-2ca88dadf...(a)m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
>
> apa <tacom...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I'm looking into setting up a more flexible headphone monitoring
> >system for live tracking. I've got the direct outs free on my main
> >board and thought I'd pick up a cheap line mixer, feed the some of the
> >DO's (or the buss outs) to it and use aux sends off the extra mixer
> >to feed a collection of headphone amps. That would let me put the
> >headphone board out in the performance area and let performers make
> >their own mixes. I have enough amps around so it would just be a
> >matter of the mixer and the cabling. Can anyone recommend a small
> >mixer with at least 6 inputs and at least 4 aux sends and preferably
> >very little else?
>
> The OZ Q-Mix is designed for the application, and Roland used to make
> a larger matrix mixer. More convenient than fiddling around with a console
> designed for general purpose work.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Thanks Scott. From the info I could find, that Q-Mix box looks ideal -
too bad it doesn't seem to be made anymore. I'll keep my eyes peeled
for a used one.
From: Scott Dorsey on 5 May 2008 13:13
apa <tacoma57(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Thanks Scott. From the info I could find, that Q-Mix box looks ideal -
>too bad it doesn't seem to be made anymore. I'll keep my eyes peeled
>for a used one.

The expensive ideal solution is the modular mixer from Crest, which allows
you to buy a power supply and one 1U module for a single headphone feed,
then stack up more 1U modules to generate more feeds; they all stack
together with a multipin pass-through cable. It's not cheap, sadly,
but it's a grown-up version of the Q-Mix.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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