Circuit geeks, help!
Jun. 15th, 2007 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuWhat's the best way to allow N headsets to listen to one headphone-out jack? I have a Zoom H4 that I'm using to record vocals over a prerecorded accompaniment track. The Zoom basically lets me bring a "recording studio" with me to whatever room I'm going to use to record.
When I've got a soloist, then I'll use a simple splitter cable so she and I can both listen together.
When I've got a trio, can I hook up multiple splitters in parallel? At what point will I be reducing the impedance to the point that the Zoom will treat it like a short and get damaged? Should I try to have two parallel circuits of two series headphones? I forget how impedance combines --- if these were resistors, that's what I'd do, and I'd hope that I can crank the volume up twice as loud so each headphone still works.
And when I've got a chorus of twenty or so people, each bringing their own earbuds, what then?
Should I give up and look to buy (or heaven help me build) some sort of inexpensive, lightweight, compact amplifier with lots of independent outputs?
When I've got a soloist, then I'll use a simple splitter cable so she and I can both listen together.
When I've got a trio, can I hook up multiple splitters in parallel? At what point will I be reducing the impedance to the point that the Zoom will treat it like a short and get damaged? Should I try to have two parallel circuits of two series headphones? I forget how impedance combines --- if these were resistors, that's what I'd do, and I'd hope that I can crank the volume up twice as loud so each headphone still works.
And when I've got a chorus of twenty or so people, each bringing their own earbuds, what then?
Should I give up and look to buy (or heaven help me build) some sort of inexpensive, lightweight, compact amplifier with lots of independent outputs?