what's up guys it's Tom welcome back to another video about six weeks ago I
posted a video about how to connect your passive studio monitors to your audio
interface I talked about how I did that in my studio some of the tools and the
tricks that I use to make it easy and in the comments of that video I had several
people ask me how do you connect more than one set of monitors to your
interface specifically I had questions about how to connect a subwoofer in
addition to your pair of monitors I had a question about how to connect a
passive pair of monitors and an active set of monitors where you can switch
easily between the two at the same time this video is a follow-up to that video
to answer that very question I want to share with you how I solve that problem
in my studio specifically for me I have a subwoofer connected along with my pair
of NS tens but I have the ability to add on another pair of monitors if I want to
with my setup and sometimes I do that for mix referencing you can kind of go
all across the board with this you can get something like the Mackie big knob
the behringer Mini Mon down on the lower price range end of things or you can go
up to the personas central station plus or all the way up to the dangerous music
monitor st and there are plenty of other options aside from just those that are
in the market those are just the ones that I want to highlight in this video
so all the way down to the behringer unit you can find used for about 30
bucks on reverb or you can go brand new with the dangerous music unit all the
way up to 2000 bucks me I don't use any of those the unit I use is called the
Sampson C control control room matrix the reason I have it included it in that
list to begin with is that it is discontinued but you can find this unit
on reverb used I think for about 40 bucks at least as of the time of filming
this video so they are out there they're just not new but you can probably find
one in pretty good condition if you are willing to do the legwork as you can see
there's not a whole lot to this little unit this is the Sampson C control this
is what I use it is a tiny little thing it fits right on my desk it just goes
right into the corner of my desk and it has a whole lot of
options that you can do with it from just two channels from your main
interface you can add four inputs for stereo inputs you have the option for
three stereo outputs you have three speaker options and you have a cue out
for your talkback a remote talkback switch if you want to if you want to use
a foot switch to control your talkback for your session the way I use it is I
have two channels coming in two to track a or mix in it really doesn't matter
which one you want to put it into just make sure that the right one is selected
on the front of the unit and then I have speaker a going out into my preamp my CL
a 200 which powers my Yamaha and s tens then I have in speaker be a stereo RCA
output into a just little old boom box I check my mixes in mono through just a
regular old boom box because most people are not listening to your music on high
fidelity systems they're listening on pretty cheap systems so it's a good
reference point to have and then I use the speaker C output to take a stereo
Sindh and summit into mono into my subwoofer and I'm able to toggle on and
off which speakers I want to use and easily switch between any set of
speakers that I'm using for my mix that's a really really easy simple piece
of gear I just set mine on in the corner of my
desk and it solves all of my problems for this and that's it it's really
simple really easy to set up just two channels into whichever one you choose
from your audio interface and it will split the signal from there depending on
what you want to do with it I highly recommend looking into this if you have
this problem I think monitoring on multiple speakers is very very helpful
for your mixes I'm going to include links below in this video to some where
to buy all of these different units I've mentioned if you want to check them out
or if you want to Google studio monitor control room solutions or control room
matrix or studio monitoring or management those are all search terms
that will help you find a solution to this problem so this is just what I use
there are a lot of options out there but I hope this
helps and as always thanks for watching and I will catch you on the next one
peace
you