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Old 11-23-2014, 09:00 AM   #1
Zurmeo
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Default 2 guitars, e-drums and jamming using In-Ear Monitoring (need help)

Hi,

I’ve been looking for 2 days straight for a simple solution but I still don’t know how to pull this off. Me and my pals have been looking for a cost-efficient way to play with 2 guitars and e-drums using wired headphones. I’m asking for help, because all of this seems to be fairly complicated to execute when you have a budget that can’t exceed 200 Euros. But we have a Lexicon Omega Studio that we can use if that is going to help us.
We aren’t focusing on recording but jamming together.

The setup right now:

The guitarists want to use Amplitube in Reaper as VSTis and there would be 2 Amplitubes at the same time. The problem is currently that we don’t probably have enough inputs for 2 guitars
I as an e-drummer will use Superior Drummer 2.0 also in Reaper as a VSTi. My DM10 is right now connected via MIDI to Lexicon Omega Studio and from there it’s connected to my PC.

http://www.thomann.de/fi/lexicon_omega_studio.htm

What we need:

Each of us needs to use separate headphones that we hear each other’s instruments at the same time. We don’t care that much how well we can mix our own sounds etc.
(We aren’t looking for any headphones, we have them already.)
A way to distribute our sounds to each headphones from 1 or 2 sources.

Possible setups?:

Alesis iO2 Express + SM Pro Audio Q-Amp + 1 computer for guitars + 1 computer for e-drums
Lexicon Omega Studio + Behringer HA400 + 1 computer for guitars and e-drums


Here are links to the hardware I have found:

http://www.thomann.de/fi/sm_pro_audio_qamp.htm (headphone splitter)
http://www.thomann.de/fi/behringer_ha400.htm (headphone splitter)
http://www.thomann.de/fi/alesis_io2_express.htm (USB interface)


Thanks for reading!
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Old 11-23-2014, 11:11 AM   #2
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Since you cross posted the question I'll cross post my answer:

There's plenty of inputs on the Omega. Is there just the one High-Z Instrument input? Then one guitar could plug in there. The other will run either through a guitar pedal (any non-true-bypass pedal, powered but it doesn't have to be on) to one of the line ins or through a DI box into a microphone input.

If your computer can't handle two amp sims and an instance of SD at reasonable latency without crapping out, then it's a boat anchor.

All you need is a headphone distribution amp.



Edit - this discussion continues over at HomeRecording.com. I don't see any reason we can't also talk about it here, get some different insights maybe, but I'd prefer not to have to repeat myself too often.

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