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Advice Needed

Hi, my band uses a mixer with built in amplifier.

I want to use some headphones as in ear monitors for performance, the mixer does not have any headphone connections just a "line out".

Would i be able to run a cable from the line out on the mixer to a headphone amplifier and then the headphones out of headphone amplifier?

Would that work?

Thanks in advance.
coolrekz
coolrekz OP
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Can anyone recommend a good set of cheap in ear headphones as a starting point. Ive seen the Shure SE215 talked about but thats more than i want to pay at the moment.
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millercarbon
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Don't know cheap, but Shure SE535 are really quite good for about $350. If it helps, they are so easy to drive you could run them right off your line out with only a trim pot for a volume control. A trim pot is just a variable resistor.
As long as you don't care about looks you could get by with maybe $10 worth of trim pot, plug, jack, and wire. Maybe another $10 for a box. SE535 has a solid 20dB isolation too.
coolrekz OP
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Thanks for the advice.
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