D8 Skills #58 | Headphone Mixes with Patch Bay

Today, we learned how to set up multiple headphone mixes using the auxiliary sends on the mixing desk, and patch bay.

The scenario: I'm recording a band. The instrumentalists want to hear everything except for the vocal, and the vocalist wants to hear everything plus some reverb on her vocal to help her keep in tune.

1. The first thing to do is to take the signal out from aux 1 and 2 and feed them into headphone mix 1 and 2 respectively using the patch bay.
2. I'll set all aux 1 and 2s to 'PRE' on the desk so that the signal gets sent out before the fader has any influence. I'll then turn up aux 1 on all channels except for the one that vocal is on, and turn up aux 2 on all channels.
3. To add the reverb onto the vocals, I'll first make sure that aux 3 on the vocal channel is set to 'POST'. Then, on the patch bay, I'll come out of aux 3 and go into the left input of the reverb rack. I'll then come out of the left and right outputs of the reverb and go into 2 new channels on the desk (setting them both to 'line' input). I'll then turn up aux 2 on those channels so that the vocalist can hear the reverb.