phill.cann
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Hello. I have a small project that I am working on. I play in a band and we are trying to find a suitable way of rehersing with making as little noise as possible in our neighbourhood. As such, I have come up with the following idea.
All electronic instruments line out to our mixer, mixer line out to a power amp, power amp headphone / line out to a signal splitter (8 ways) which has 8 1/4" stereo headphone jacks in it.
I have built a box which takes a stereo input (two phono plugs) and just equally splits this input to 8 outputs (1/4" headphone jacks). The problem i am having is now the more headphones / devices plugged into the splitter box, the more I need to increase the output from the power amp so that the headphones signal is loud enough to be heard.
Now I understand why this is happening. The signal is being split, as such, there is a proportionate loss in signal strength for each headphone device attached to the box. What i'd like to do is incorporate somekind of circuitry in my signal splitter box that matches EACH output to the INPUT signal.
Apologies but I am not sure exactly the terminology that I should be using to describe this any better but I can certainly try to answer any questions if someone might be able to suggest some possible options open to me?
Thanks very much.
Phill.
All electronic instruments line out to our mixer, mixer line out to a power amp, power amp headphone / line out to a signal splitter (8 ways) which has 8 1/4" stereo headphone jacks in it.
I have built a box which takes a stereo input (two phono plugs) and just equally splits this input to 8 outputs (1/4" headphone jacks). The problem i am having is now the more headphones / devices plugged into the splitter box, the more I need to increase the output from the power amp so that the headphones signal is loud enough to be heard.
Now I understand why this is happening. The signal is being split, as such, there is a proportionate loss in signal strength for each headphone device attached to the box. What i'd like to do is incorporate somekind of circuitry in my signal splitter box that matches EACH output to the INPUT signal.
Apologies but I am not sure exactly the terminology that I should be using to describe this any better but I can certainly try to answer any questions if someone might be able to suggest some possible options open to me?
Thanks very much.
Phill.