Mixer question

[soulstar89]

Hey peeps. Newbie question. 
 

my misses plays piano and obviously I play bass. I wonder could we hook both instruments to a mixer and plug two sets of headphones into it so we can both listen to each other while playing? 
 

If so any recommendations? 
 

My amp is at mine and tbh i don’t want to keep bringing amp over.  Never used a mixer before but when I asked about playing silently with a amp that doesn’t have a headphone and aux out, people suggested a mixer 

 

cheers

Edited May 5 by soulstar89

[SimonK]

Probably a bit of an overkill but this is cool:

 

https://www.roland.com/us/products/hs-5/

 

[soulstar89]

5 minutes ago, SimonK said:

Probably a bit of an overkill but this is cool:

 

https://www.roland.com/us/products/hs-5/

 

For that kind of price I may as well buy a new head and cab lmao. Cheers at least I know such things exist 

[Bigguy2017]

If you have a bass preamp or amp with a line level out you only need a headphone amp with two inputs

 

Behringer Miniamp 800 V2 - Andertons Music Co.

[nekomatic]

I think the short answer is ‘yes’ and pretty much any mixer should do the job. The only issue would be that the mixer probably only has one headphone output so you won’t be able to control your headphone levels separately. 
 

I noticed there are currently a couple of Yamaha SessionCakes going in the ‘accessories for sale’ section here. I haven’t used these but as I understand it you can link two or more of them together so each person has their own headphone output - that might do what you want? And they’re not expensive. 

[nekomatic]

7 minutes ago, Bigguy2017 said:

If you have a bass preamp or amp with a line level out you only need a headphone amp with two inputs

 

Behringer Miniamp 800 V2 - Andertons Music Co.

That looks like a good suggestion too. 

[soulstar89]

3 hours ago, Bigguy2017 said:

If you have a bass preamp or amp with a line level out you only need a headphone amp with two inputs

 

Behringer Miniamp 800 V2 - Andertons Music Co.

 Hey,  I have a MLD bass pre amp. I normally have it in my bass bag but don’t bring it. I’ll have to look what it has. The misses has a Yamaha p-225.

 

thanks for the link, I will look into it 

[PinkMohawk]

Something like that Behringer is probably the best move. Regular mixers tend to only have a single headphone output, intended for whoever's operating the board to be able to solo channels. 

 

One caveat to keep in mind though, it looks to me like you can only have one pair of headphones listening to one of the inputs at a time. In your case, this is fine, since your wife would come in on the L of Input A, and you'd be on the R on Input A, so you can both hear each other no problem. If you have any thoughts of inviting other people over and using this though, or even playing along to backing tracks, you'll be out of luck. You could very easily pick up a cheap little analogue mixer though, take the two outputs into the headphone amps inputs and then you'd be able to add more people/tracks easily. 

[JPJ]

Most mixers only have one headphone out, so you’ll need something like this to take the mixer stereo headphones out and power two sets of headphones. 
https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0835-AAF

 

If you go down this route, don’t forget to buy a TRS to TRS cable with the right size plugs to fit your mixer.

 

Edited 7 hours ago by JPJ

[soulstar89]

11 hours ago, PinkMohawk said:

Something like that Behringer is probably the best move. Regular mixers tend to only have a single headphone output, intended for whoever's operating the board to be able to solo channels. 

 

One caveat to keep in mind though, it looks to me like you can only have one pair of headphones listening to one of the inputs at a time. In your case, this is fine, since your wife would come in on the L of Input A, and you'd be on the R on Input A, so you can both hear each other no problem. If you have any thoughts of inviting other people over and using this though, or even playing along to backing tracks, you'll be out of luck. You could very easily pick up a cheap little analogue mixer though, take the two outputs into the headphone amps inputs and then you'd be able to add more people/tracks easily. 

 Appreciate this. Make me happy I joined this forum. 

[soulstar89]

2 hours ago, JPJ said:

Most mixers only have one headphone out, so you’ll need something like this to take the mixer stereo headphones out and power two sets of headphones. 
https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=0835-AAF

 

If you go down this route, don’t forget to buy a TRS to TRS cable with the right size plugs to fit your mixer.

 

oh wow these aren’t a arm or a leg AT ALL. Really appreciate this. I’ll look into the TRS to TRS cable also. T