Performer Self Monitoring

[adorian]

I do this via a cheapo mixer at home and while performing - I use the fx send to submix for monitoring that in turn goes to a small mixer. I either split the signal via a DI box before the mixer or use its inserts to feed the signal into the DAW. It is mono but works great for what it is worth.

[Audio~Geek]

Most rack mount headphone amps (like the Samson S-phone and Presonus HP60) have an aux in or "More Me" function.
You basically set up 1 or 2 stereo headphone mixes, then you take 4 additional mono outputs from your daw to make the 'more me' sends.

So Bass player is listening on headphones # 1 it's being fed headphone mix A (same as studio) and additionally output 5 which is just his bass.

Mix B is a tweaked mix for the drummer, on it's aux maybe add snare and kick, whatever extra he wants (in mono)

[MC_Tuppz]

this is great. I was going...

MIC --> MINMON --> Toneport at one stage and it wouldnt work with a condensor...

Im thinkin of pickin up either the focusrite saffire or the profire 610. They both seem to have a decent amount of outputs so I'd just feed these out to an external mixer in the booth...correct?

[Audio~Geek]

What's a MINMON?
Mic->cable->toneport (+48V)

You're just recording yourself or 1 person right? It's just a waste of time and money to set this up for yourself.
Set up your headphones to hear what you want before starting to record.

YOU ARE RECORDING NOT MIXING IT'S OK TO HAVE TO RESET LEVELS LATER WHEN YOU ARE MIXING

You are just wasting time otherwise.

[MC_Tuppz]

Minimon is the shitty lil behringer thing that u can use with a dynamic fine, but not condensor. Its a monitoring thing. Reason I'm after it is because I have a booth and when someone else is in the booth or even myself in there, the ease to change what I/They can hear through the headphones would be cool.

Mic->cable->toneport (+48V) makes sense, thats how I normally do. Just tryna work out what to do in the path to the performer. Im gonna try the mixer based approach, feeding off the outputs from the interface as everyone seems to be suggesting. Sounds like the best approach atm