My friends, today I have seen a device that made me post in the recording gear forum.
I love the Presonus Firepod, its enabled my band to do homerecordings and seriously learn a lot about the recording process.
Presonus has now come out with a headphone mixer. The review on Zzounds can explain it a lot better than I ever could:
The PreSonus HP60 is the most flexible and advanced headphone mixing system available for professional and project recording studios as well as live sound in-ear monitoring systems. Loaded with six independent, loud and clear headphone amplifiers, the HP60 features dual stereo inputs as well as external input, for each channel allowing you to mix between three stereo audio streams (mix A, mix B, and external input). Stereo output is also available on each channel to send line level headphone channel mixes to additional headphone amplifiers or monitor systems. Each channel features headphone level, mix control between A and B inputs, external input volume, mute and mono. The HP60 also features talkback via external XLR microphone input.
Common set up of the HP60 in a recording session is to send the main control room mix to input A. Send the click track to input B. Send the each band member direct recording input to each channel’s external input (more me). This will allow each band member to create a mix between the main mix, the click track and themselves.
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Its like Presonus aimed to solve the problems that home recording artists were having. Its reasonably cheap too, $299. $299 for a personalized audio mix physically available to all members... thats awesome.
On a sad sidenote, the Firepod has been discontinued
in light of the Firestudio
. The Firestudio really does look great for the same amount. A few ugrades that once again solve more of the issues others must of been having as well.
Well played Presonus, well played indeed.
