Monitoring on dual headphones???

[newbie956]

I have a singer coming to my home studio next month to lay down some vocals and I want to be able to use dual headphones for tracking..one set for him and one set for me...what equipment do I need so we can both hear what's being tracked...my audio interface is a lynx hilo 2 thunderbolt but it only has one headphone jack...I also have a bbyface pro that I haven't used since I purchased the lynx hilo2...how can I achieve dual monitoring on headphones while tracking??

Rokbox pc
Cl1b comp
Neve 1073 spx
Lynx hilo 2 (tb3)
Nueman u87

[James Perrett]

One of the little Behringer HD400 headphone amps is always handy to have around. It will give you 4 headphone outputs from one line or headphone level input and each output has its own volume control.

[Sam Spoons]

You don't say which DAW you use and I'm not familiar with your audio interface so can't help with routing to get two separate mixes but your Lynx has 6 outputs so using a small headphone amp like the Berry James suggested would allow it to work.

If you can live with the same mix and have two pairs of identical hiZ headphones you could probably get away with a simple splitter adapter to plug both pairs into a single headphone output (but you won't have independent control of each pairs volume).

[newbie956]

Ok I was looking around sweetwater and I found "art headamp 4" I was thinking of purchasing..but what cables would I need..I have 2 xlr outputs left on my lynx hilo 2?

[forumuser931182]

The ART input is via a stereo jack ( 1/4” or 3.5mm ). Ideally you would drive this from the Lynx monitor out jacks though you may be using these for your studio monitors? If that is so you can use a stereo 1/4” jack lead to feed from Lynx headphone socket to the ART input. Dual xlr leads to 1/4” stereo jack are rarer to find.

[Nazard]

Ok I was looking around sweetwater and I found "art headamp 4" I was thinking of purchasing..but what cables would I need..I have 2 xlr outputs left on my lynx hilo 2?

I would perhaps spend a little more on your headphone amp, here is one from Sweetwater:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... eakout-box

Simple connection, balanced XLR from the Hilo line out to the Cranborne. Since the Hilo has its own headphone amp (and headphone DAC), the headphone amp only needs to have one output.

But you also have an RME Babyface, which you could drive directly from the Hilo line out and the Babyface has two headphone outputs on 1/8" stereo jacks. With a short cable 1/8" to 1/4" adapter to stress break the connection, that seems a good idea for occasional use.

[James Perrett]

Ok I was looking around sweetwater and I found "art headamp 4" I was thinking of purchasing..but what cables would I need..I have 2 xlr outputs left on my lynx hilo 2?

I would perhaps spend a little more on your headphone amp, here is one from Sweetwater:

While the Cranbourne box will be great if you use the CAST system and is likely to be very well made, it falls down on some vital features needed here. You will certainly need individual volume controls for each pair of headphones and you will need something that is easy to understand and hook up.

The ART Headamp 4 looks much more appropriate although (in Europe at least) it is 8 times the price of the Behringer box that does the same thing. While the Behringer box may not be the ultimate in sound quality, I have two here and they work fine for performer foldback into a variety of different headphones.

With the ART or the Behringer box I would just take a TRS to TRS cable from the Lynx headphone output to the headphone amplifier box.

[Arpangel]

The Berry is fine, as James says, it drives most headphones at a decent volume, I really wouldn’t spend anymore it’s not worth it.