How to Set Up a Headphone Mix

[@natan_abdala]

Oh man! You just explained something in 7 minutes that I searched for an entire afternoon! thank you!

[@PherotoneStudios]

This is a seriously helpful video and I'm shocked that anyone has given this a thumbs down. I've always used a mixing desk so that was my way of creating a headphone mix. Moving in-the-box is nice but I still don't know how to do things like this. Great video Joe. Thank you

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Glad it was helpful!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

@Chillylion The reverb never gets recorded. You can use a TON of reverb, and then get rid of it later if you want.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

@DocPicklez Good question. I'm pretty sure it DOESN'T bypass the plug-in. But you could pretty easily test it out. Do something drastic on a plug-in and see if it shows up on the send.

[@BookofIsaiah]

Joe, Great video as usual. This is very similar to the way I set up my headphone cues in Digital Performer. Digital Performer also has something called "Cue Mix". In any case, I have two headphone amps that I use. One output pair is from 3 and 4 and goes to one amp. Another output pair from 5 and 6 go to the second headphone amp. One amp with it's mix is sent to my drum booth and the other amp with it's mix feeds the other musicians. I can listen to each phone feed as well as my own mix.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

@Thouchins You need headphones because when you're recording a vocal track, if the speakers are on you'll record the sound of the speakers as well as your voice. headphones keep this from happening

[@kailyn346]

Hey, thank you for the video. Today is my first time recording a band without my head engineer guiding my me (I just got out of school for audio engineering) and I was having a slight panic attack as I forgot everything about headphone mixes. Thanks for helping banish those jitters!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

@Thouchins You either put the musician in another room, or the engineer needs to where headphones too. And just turn off the speakers if you don't want to hear them.

[@DavidHughesShineOnStudio]

Good tut. I like how you explain each step in the setup. You may want to cover groups and how to setup groups on the sends.

[@shanekerchen]

Joe, I'm not sure if you're aware but I believe the Presonus HP4 does have Monitor Thru Output as well as a Monitor Level Pot on the front.

[@rich2fnrock]

I am newer subscriber and I really like your channel and videos. Thanks for the postings. Pro Tools Rules!

[@aichestylercollin]

Great video! I was just curious on what interface you have? All I have right now is an Mbox Mini but I thinking of upgrading to something a bit better.

[@paulchris5637]

Joe, I seen you were using busses for your headphone mixes. It's been my experience that when using Protools LE you cant use sends. That after you record enable the tracks the sends get bypassed. And what about the latency issues that would occur with it. Thanks, Paul

[@BoomersEve]

Great Video, I'm using this to brush up on some things since I've been out of audio class for some time! Keep the videos coming!

[@hbrookes]

What about latency on the vocalist phones?

[@Marco-HidalgoMusicRecords]

Dear Joe: Could you make a video doing this in Studio One please??? Thank you dude!!! Love your work!! Marco from Uruguay

[@eamonngray3750]

Handy. Can you copy the levels from your own mix to the headphone mix to get to a starting point quicker? So you don't have to go through every single track individually?

[@HomeStudioCorner]

There may be a shortcut for that, but I don't know it. Sorry!

[@originalbigbang]

great vid! how do you connect the 3/4 outputs to the headphone amp. i have a Pyle Pro PHA40 headphone pre amp but it only has 1 trs input. how do i get the 3/4 in to that. Thanx!

[@redroosterproductions8840]

Hey Joe, This works great for my Protools set up using my Scarlet 18i8 interface, but do you have any videos for setting up headphone mixes using the presonus studio live AI 16.4.2 mixer as a interface? Love your work, Sean Perkins

[@nateross130]

Hey man! Great video! Definitely needed that. Also, what song is that you're working on? I'd love to check it out! Where can I hear it?

[@rochardentertainmentgroup6714]

So I guess I missed this one Joe. Good stuff!

[@TheeAldeen]

WOW< without you i would have never realized a Return track was jut a Buss, i thought a buss was a group!! Thanks Bro!! PS what kind of mic did you use for the Voice Over?

[@AaronKelley]

I favorited this video because I won't use this for a while...and when I need it, I can't remember how to do it! Thank you! One question, though...how do you combat latency through the interface using this method? I can change the interface stream mode to minimum latency, but it's still there even though that terribly bad.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Latency is an issue whether you're doing headphone mixes or not, but yeah if you can't get low latency on your system, this method of headphone mixing won't be that useful.

[@AaronKelley]

Joe Gilder Music thanks for responding. I figured as much. Is there another alternative that doesn’t break the bank? I’ve done live sound all my life, so studio work is still new to me.

[@markkieviet3249]

Try changing the buffer size of your DAW (note that you need a very good CPU to do low latency tracking through your daw). If this doesn't work for you there are multiple options. If you take a split from your inputs you could feed another device with your microphones, so in example some 24 ch analog desk with 6 monitor sends, this means you can get 24 inputs mixed separately to 6 different headphone amps. (or don't split but use the desk as a preamp to your converter) Use the method Joe Gilder is using to feed stereo channels on the analog desk for the playback. (latency doesn't matter in the playback if your daw has delay compensation) So this is the cheapest way, you could do the same but than with a Behringer Powerplay, Hearback or Aviom system.

[@2dollarcrew]

How is the headphone amp connected to the seperate outputs? Stereo 1/4 inch cable?

[@pathenergy3338]

so if the drummer wants he's own headphone monitor mix to hear the click teack full blast, then do I need to do a seperate output 5-6 output just for the drummer?

[@PeteBarberDrums]

I'm using MP9 and i'm doing everything you said but i'm not getting the sliders for each channel like you do, any suggestions, I'm fairly new to all this.

[@TheMattd546]

will this work with the Firestudio Project? it has like 6 outputs for monitoring? can i sent them to those monitor outputs on the firestudio? i got 2 firestudio projects daisy chained so i got a total of 12 outputs, more then enough, i hope i dont have to get an headphone amp & when we do this we wont get no delay or anything?

[@TheRealBrandonBlackwell23]

Hey Joe I was wondering :59 how do you set-up your send on the vox track to the delay with the faders to the delay I haven't been able to figure that out. Thank

[@DocPicklez]

Joe, when you go Pre fade does it bypass the plugins?

[@Chillylion]

if singer wants to hear reverb in headphone mix but you dont want to record voal with reverb how do you do that

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Yep, it does. AND a mono button! (I own one.)

[@tgonnabfamous13]

Amazing. Thank You!

[@glenfordholder9011]

great tutorial make my day

[@Rljackson7205]

Great advice ! Thats How I do it... using the HP4 (Presonus)

[@TheKwtf]

I have FL Studio 12 and Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 .. I cannot get this work , please help me someone ... this is killing me

[@jonioden6323]

odd then you would say " this works with any daw you might be using". note some of the other comments reflected my point as well. cheers

[@HomeStudioCorner]

Yeah, what I said is correct. All major DAW's have the ability to do what I showed in this video. Of course the big variable is you have to know how to use the sends feature in your DAW to do it.

[@jonioden6323]

Joe Gilder Music my bad. u thought that was the purpose of the video, as the title itself is worded...'how to'. but in your words, I surmise ehat you're actually saying is "I'll show you how to do thisb, but you need to learn how to do it in order for me to show you...how to do it'. GOT IT!... I'll be back to learn how to do it as soon as I learn how to do it. much appreciated. great video!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

:)

[@HomeStudioCorner]

I see it as I can show you how I EQ an acoustic guitar, but you'll need to know how to pull up your own EQ and how to do boosts, cuts, etc. on your specific EQ.

[@markthomas7263]

Brilliant !!!

[@robgracia509]

can you do this in pro tools 8 le thanks

[@realryanvarnell]

Thank you!

[@HomeStudioCorner]

+Ryan Varnell thank YOU for watching!

[@bachelorgamer8001]

whats the point in explaning everything in shortcuts not every1 has a mac wtf

[@HomeStudioCorner]

It’s helpful to people with Macs.

[@MsPaulieboy]

sd

[@jonioden6323]

it all went by too quickly for me. still need to know. its the reason I came here. I agree that things will work similarly with different daws, but they can appear too differently that when watching ANY daw tutorial that's NOT the same as mine, the student must first translate 'that' function to his own daw, before he can even begin to learn what the teacher is attempting to get across. not YOUR fault. just an unneeded learning curve.

[@HomeStudioCorner]

I recommend finding someone who uses your DAW and asking them?