campfirey Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 Hello everyone! With live sessions coming back in some shape, I'm looking to play with backing tracks live, but with the nature of how my music works I would need a click track. Since I don't want the audience to hear my metronome, I would want a splitter so that my IEMs can have the click and the send to the audience won't. I understand the common solution to this is an interface with two headphone outs, but I really don't need that, I just need the headphone splitter. My only stitch is that I would want it to be able to be controllable in Logic as a configureable output. If there's any hardware out there that I don't know of that would be the solution to my problem, that would be amazing. Thank you in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinloops Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 Why do you need two headphones? A splitter just splits the same signal so if you used a splitter it would send the same thing to both. Also a splitter won’t be usb (that would be a multi channel interface). A splitter is just a plug the splits a signal. What you need are multiple outputs so you can send different signals to each output. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
campfirey Posted August 1, 2021 Author Share Posted August 1, 2021 Yeah, that's what I need. I'm new to this type of hardware so I'm sorry if I'm using the wrong words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 Yes, you need an interface with at least 4 outputs, that way you can do 2 separate stereo headphone mixes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
campfirey Posted August 1, 2021 Author Share Posted August 1, 2021 Ah, I was hoping an interface wasn’t the answer, since they can get so pricey when you want to be portable. Do you happen to know of any cheap options? As long as it’s not rack gear, I’m interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Atlas007 Posted August 2, 2021 Solution Share Posted August 2, 2021 Here is a recent review of some small budget portable audio interface. Many among them feature only one pair of outputs (1L & 1R). But you might consider setting up an aggregate to use your computer's audio outputs as the second pair of outputs (i.e. for your click track). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
campfirey Posted August 2, 2021 Author Share Posted August 2, 2021 Oh awesome, I'll just set up an aggregate device then. Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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