How to Rehearse Silently with HEADPHONES MONITORING SYSTEM | Budget Option Included!

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🎬 ON TODAY'S MANUAL: If you're playing in a band, rehearsing is something completely necessary - still it might be inconvenient. Gathering up all bandmates home to rehearse with PA systems, guitar and bass amps and loud drums can be fun, but if you're going to do this constantly at home, you're probably going to annoy your neighbours with noise. Renting rehearsing studios or practice spaces might come as a nice solution, but still you're going to have to pay off an hour per room and it gets expensive with time. This context pushed my band towards one of the most effective and convenient solution - swipe out loud amps and PA systems for headphones! Supernova Andromeda started out in early-mid 2020, and we implemented headphone monitoring for rehearsing early on, and actually never turned back after that. We started out with a basic 8 channel audio interface, a cheap headphone amp and some basic mixing and routing on Cubase so we could rehearse quietly. That system has always worked out nicely. Later on we moved onto a more "advanced" audio interface and a better sounding headphone amp (improving the headphone amp made most of the difference out of the bunch, I really recommend it) and we're still using this method today. Hope these tips help you to make the most out of your rehearsals (: cause even if you do use amps and stuff to rehearse, I still recommend that you try out using headphones and learning some basic headphone monitoring mixing. It takes recording, writing and practicing with a band onto a whole other level in my opinion.

💡 This video was a bit more technical than usual so feel free to ask me anything on the comments section (:

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00:00 - The Problem
01:15 - Audio Interfaces
02:07 - Headphone Amplifier
02:58 - Budget System
05:12 - "Advanced" System
09:25 - DAW Setup (Logic Pro)
13:31 - The End

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🎛️ Headphone Amps:

-PreSonus HP 60

-Behringer Powerplay HA4700

🎚️ Audio Interfaces:

-Focusrite Scarlett 18i20

-Behringer UMC 1820

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[DadPlaysBass]

His English is so good, I can’t believe this guy is Brazilian

[busterfoxx]

I would use a digital mixer instead of the sound card & DAW. If you got a cheap digital mixer with 4 auxiliary outputs & 12 inputs, for under $600, you can have 4 bus mixes (4 different mixes). The best part is you get a stable & reliable solution you can even use on your live gigs. Last thing, inorder to have a really quiet practice session, I'd have my drummer on an electric drum set. That's also better for recording & quicker to set up & easier to transport. But if you're stuck on the "acoustic drums paradigm", then keep using your current drum set.

[Shidpiz]

Thanks dude-a-rino. You helped me relax knowing i can eventually jam in my apartment with a buddy and not be a dick about it to my neighbors. That smacking on the edrums tho will forever be there tho.

[fabloon]

Great video! Which Mac are you using? Processor and RAM?

[jimorgain]

old guy here, not to over state what seams obvious to other old guys, bothering the neighbors is part of the point! hearing the band at a high volume seamed intuitive and necesary for the 'sound' lol, but yes we all have the need to practice quietly to not bother everyone, and its quite ambarrasing when the police arrive, carry on i just couldnt help but share that

[raketfuel]

I wonder why no one invented one mixer (without a need to be connected to computer) with power cable that has let's say 4 xlr/jack inputs and below additional inputs for headphones with all separate buttons chanel/master chanel. It's ridiculous to buy separate devices for everything that will create latency. I guess no one thought that some people would like to have silent jams on headphones in flats and all would like hear mastertrack without monitor in their headphones. There is something like for example zoom livetrack l8 but too expensive... 😢

[samuelcramphorn]

This is exactly what I wanted to do, not sure why I found it so hard to find this video or some information on it. I plan on going down the Focusrite route of a 6i8 - can I achieve the same output of 6 inputs, 4 headphone outputs I can monitor?

Thanks

[itsgmani]

So I’ve done this. We’re using backing tracks as well. My vocalist has a slightly different mix so he can hear himself better. I’m across an issue where we have one song sounding perfect. All instruments sound great then we move onto a second song and the mix doesn’t sound good at all. Like we need to re level everything. I’m not sure exactly what I’m missing here. Have you come across anything like this?

[yeet_cs]

I would like to get some insight. Im trying to jamm with my friends at home and we already have some basic equipments. Is it doable if all our instruments connected to a mixer and then from there to an audio interface connected to a daw and finally monitored from the audio interface via a headphone preamp?

[jimorgain]

ok, so your working in logic, are you noticing latency? are you blending direct in with returns? what kind of electric drumset? i dont understand term shoegaze, video to explain it seams over simplified, is radiohead shoegaze, sorry if that seams like a dumb question

[chatopadilla]

Hello.
How does the HP60 work? I am thinking of purchasing it for the same purpose, but I have doubts about its amplification power. Does the headphones you've tried sound good?
Doesn't it lack power?

[JacquesOLINY]

Hello!
Do you continue to use this system for your silent rehearsals?

[fabloon]

One more question… how does the Presonus help? If you’re doing the individual mix on the DAW, what’s the benefit of it over like a $50 headphone amp?

[JosseMeza]

so on my logic doesnt show the option " send it to faders " to select the send ( track ) for each individual headphone mixes, any one have the same issue?

i found if i. right click theres an option send to faders and it highlights the sends im a bit confused :(

[camogar]

Does the audio interface need to have direct monitoring or a pre amp built in?

[omarz]

Not sure but I couldn’t get send on fader to control my ears. Everything was still sending 100 I am using Focousrite claret and octa pre

[bogdan]

Quick question would the focusrite saffire pro 40 work as an audio interface ?