Along with a typical cue or control room mix, an engineer can now offer musicians a dedicated fader for their own instrument. Players always want to hear more of themselves (quelle surprise) and keeping them happy when there are more of them than there are aux sends can sometimes be a challenge. With the Langevin HP101, as long as the musician's headphone is plugged into a separate station, each can have their own custom mix within arms reach. This allows the engineer to concentrate on recording and getting the sound right and frees the producer to focus on performances. The musician's monitoring needs are met quickly and easily. Console aux sends can now be put to other uses.

Now everyone who wants to be, can be one louder!

With the Langevin HP101 you're able to offer musicians a better sounding headphone feed than many major studios and provide significant improvements over basic stereo cue boxes.

Each HP-101 unit offers 8 x balanced inputs: four mono channels with FADER and PAN plus two stereo feeds with rotary switches providing stereo, mono and SIM processing. The clever SIM setting monos the bass which makes it sound more like listening to speakers. Channel 1 has a PHASE switch, intended primarily for vocalists. Voice is 'heard' through the skull as well as the ears. An engineer switching phase in & out at the desk may not hear much difference, but the person at the microphone most certainly will. Polarity gets inverted all the time in studios which may explain why sometimes the vocal is so loud in the phones or sounds different on playback to the singer. The Langevin HP101 phase switch can come in very handy. The 8 inputs appear on ELCO multipin connectors (pin out configuration to ADAT standard) to allow for linking or daisy-chaining of several units. Cables can be made to any length.

Additionally, a 12 channel version is available, the HP-112. All features are the same as the HP-101 8 channel model except there are 4 additional mono inputs.

The Mute controls the Power Amps directly and steps through ON, MUTE, LEFT MUTE and RIGHT MUTE then back to ON. Each station also has bass and treble EQ controls carefully optimized for headphones. The master stereo volume control feeds the built-in power amps which produce peak voltage (equivalent to) well over a 100W per channel to drive up to 4 headsets.

Two features that usually impress are the easy communication with one button and the fabulous sound quality even at extreme levels. Clever design by the Manley team also provides for spare pins in the ELCO connectors for other communication and monitoring functions, including TALK and INTERRUPT. There are also hidden features on the ELCOs such as the ability for the control room to monitor each station's headphone mix or to hear the unswitched "always-on" individual station microphone.