Help with "live" sound, working with other musicians

papertiger · 2022-07-26T15:25:51.879Z

Long story short: working with some friends on music. My laptop and MOTU Ultralite mk5 will be the recording hub, mixer, and monitor. The challenge is that we all need to monitor over headphones. The mk5 has one headphone jack, so I am not sure if we need to invest in a headphone amplifier/“distributor” (something like this), headphone splitter, or what. I guess I could also buy a pair of adaptors (2 1/4" mono plugs to 1/4" female) and use those on a couple of output pairs.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance!

konputa · 2022-07-26T18:14:12.535Z

Or if that doesn’t work you could have the players run their own submixers and chain into your interface? Most people seem to want to hear themselves first and they could still do so without buying a distribution amp, assuming the other players have small mixers, of course.

papertiger · 2022-07-26T18:25:46.807Z

That is a great idea! I didn’t even think about that. We bought the headphone amp/distributor because we found one local that was on sale, so it was fairly cheap.

I will suggest the small mixer. I have a Zed 6 sitting in a drawer so we would only need one more!

obscurerobot · 2022-07-26T23:29:34.789Z

papertiger:

I will suggest the small mixer. I have a Zed 6 sitting in a drawer so we would only need one more!

The Mackie 402VLZ4 is also a good way to add additional outputs to a stereo pair. Plus you get two mono channels with peramps.

papertiger · 2022-07-26T23:35:58.586Z

I remembered earlier today that the other guitarist has one of those - woohoo!