I run the headphones from an external headphone amp that gets bit accurate signal from the interface. I use a Tascam US-1800 interface and a Rolls HA43 Pro
headphone amp.
If I am using a separate analog mixer on the drums I run the mixer into two channels of the interface and I connect the headphone amp to the interface.So out of the interface into the headphone amp?
Made one attempt a couple months ago to do some recording over top of a song. Ran a USB out of my yamaha mixer into my computer running audacity at the time. Now I know this limits my mixing per channel ability. The overall mix of the drums was a little off, especially bass an toms. So was wondering how to "monitor" so I can get the signal going into the daw adjusted on each drum better
Do you run your headphones out of your computer from the DAW while playing so you can hear or out of your mixer/digital interface?
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Just want to elaborate a bit more.
Kona is making a drum cover to a dreamless track.
I do this as follows;
I connect the USB interface/mixer to my computer and I open a project in GarageBand. My headphone amp is plugged into the interface/mixer and I assign the monitor out to come from the interface/mixer
I create a stereo track in GarageBand for the music that I am playing along with and I drag the play along song into the stereo track that I assigned it to.
I then create two separate mono tracks for the left and right channels of the drums in the project. These are the tracks that I will record the drums on.
I press the button on the drum tracks to arm them for record. I press the monitor button for all the tracks.
I press record and I play along with the prerecorded tune that is being played by GarageBand as I record my drumming at the same time. At this point I am playing to a rough mix. I set the levels so that I can easily hear the tune that I am playing to and my drums.
When I am finished I mix the levels, EQ, effects, etc in GarageBand and I save the finished tune as an AAC file or an MP3 file.