Very tricky headphones | Behringer MX9000 specs

Channels	Source	Route	Destination
1	Kick	Direct out	Track 2
2	Snare	Direct out	Track 3
3	Hi Hat	Direct out	Track 4
4	Tom 1	Subgroups 5 and 6	Tracks 5 and	6
5	Tom 2	Subgroups 5 and 6	Tracks 5 and	6
6	Tom 3	Subgroups 5 and 6	Tracks 5 and	6
7	Tom 4	Subgroups 5 and 6	Tracks 5 and	6
8	Cymbals (overheads) L	Direct out	Track 7
9	Cymbals (overheads) R	Direct out	Track 8
10	Bass microphone	Subgroup 3	Track 1
11	Bass DI	Subgroup 3	Track 1
12	Escaping prisoners	Subgroup 4	Who knows?
13	Trumpet	Subgroups 1 and 2	Tracks 9 and 10
14	Trombone	Subgroups 1 and 2	Tracks 9 and 10
15	Sax	Subgroups 1 and 2	Tracks 9 and 10
16	BVs 1	Subgroups 7 and 8	Tracks 11 and	12
17	BVs 2	Subgroups 7 and 8	Tracks 11 and	12
18	BVs 3	Subgroups 7 and 8	Tracks 11 and	12
19	Conga L	Direct out	Track 13
20	Conga R	Direct out	Track 14
21	Guitar 1 microphone	Direct out	Track 15
22	Guitar 2 microphone	Direct out	Track 16
23	Lead vocal	Direct out	Track 17

Tab. 16.1: Channel assignment

Tape Monitoring will be via MIX-B in tape return mode. Once tracks are layed, they will be flipped onto the A-channels (1 to 17), and overdubbing can commence via tracks 18 to 24. Also “bouncing”, reducing several tracks onto one or a stereo pair, requires access to the full routing matrix. This is available to the A-channels, but not the B-channels.

16.2 Very tricky headphones

In a multi-musician scenario you’ll probably want as many different headphones mixes as you can muster. With the current channel/group/track assignments it is possible to set up four independent, or semi-independent, headphone feeds while still keeping back auxes 3/4/5/6 for “wet” monitoring (see 16.3).

Subgroup 7 => aux return 3 => headphones 1		Subgroup 8 => aux return 4 => headphones 2
Main mix (and)/or MIX-B =>	headphones 1	Main mix (and)/or MIX-B =>	headphones 2
Active switches: S55/(S82, S77)/S76		Active switches: S69/(S82, S89)/S88

See also fig. 14.4 “Subgroup driven auxless headphones mix” and associated text.

In the above configuration HP1 and HP2 comprise a blend of the main mix, MIX-B and an additional feed from a subgroup. The subgroup feed can be used to select which channel(s) should be boosted in the cans relative to the main mixes.

+Choose to send to subgroups 7 and 8 from channels which are routed to tape from their DIRECT OUT. Otherwise CHANNEL PAN, which will already have been set for recording via another group, is unlikely to be pointing to where you want the cue signal to go. Aux sends 1 and 2 are available as two separate mono headphone feeds, or as a single stereo headphone feed. You’ll need an extra stereo amplifier to amplify the aux 1 and 2 outputs to drive headphones properly.