Tired of someone else controlling your mix?

What if you could control it yourself? Hear Technologies has designed a new personal monitoring system called the Hear Back. It changes the way monitor mixing is accomplished on stage or auditorium; as well as, in the studio. Imagine getting your mix exactly the way you want it. With the Hear Back, you save time and get the sound just right, the first time. This affordable system is perfect for headphones, wired and wireless in-ear monitors, and/or conventional floor monitors.

The Hear Back System: Hub & Mixers

A basic Hear Back system consists of a Hub and personal Mixers connected using standard CAT5e cables. A single Hub supplies signal and power to a maximum of eight Mixers. If that’s not enough, the Hubs can be daisy-chained using the HearBus In/Out for virtually unlimited system size. The Hub can accept analog input signals from audio mixers, auxiliary, matrix, monitor, and/or direct outputs. The ADAT input can come from digital audio workstations, digital recorders, or digital mixers.

For front of house or remotely located digital mixers, we also have the Extreme Extender ADAT In/Out that converts ADAT optical, which has very limited distance, to the HearBus for transmission of up to 500 feet.

Features

• Three switch selectable 8-channel input sources:
  – ADAT Optical
  – Analog
  – HearBus
• 24-bit A/D converters
• Digital inputs: 44.1KHz and 48 KHz sample rates
• Less than 1.5 milliseconds system delay
• 3-LED four-level metering
• Standard CAT5E - delivers power and signals to mixers
• Daisy-chain for very large systems
• Internal universal input power supply
• 1 RU chassis

What We Think

So you’ve got all the high end mics, preamps, cables, acoustic treatment…yada yada yada. And maybe you forgot about the most important thing, hearing your music! Hear Technologies and Front End Audio provide excellent tools to really hear what’s going on. Your clients deserve to hear what they need to hear, your bandmates deserve a good monitor mix too. You can try to Frankenstein your own system, or go with the guys who do one thing and do it the best. The Talkback, Mix Back and Hear Back systems are outstanding, clean systems that provide specific solutions for what you need. The support from these cats is TOP NOTCH as well, from setup advice and planning to real support after the sale! Let us know your monitoring needs and we’ll bring you the solution on a silver platter.

 - Warren Dent, Front End Audio