Home studio setup ideas, with independent monitors and headphones volume control suggestions

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Please share your (preferably CQ18t) setup for home recording on a DAW in one room, where you need to have independent volume control/muting for both studio monitors and headphones instantly accessible (no menu diving).

My understanding is that headphones on the cq18t are post fader, so if the main LR is turned down, so is the headphones volume. Recording voice and acoustic instruments obviously requires the room to be quiet.

Please share how you have achieved a good setup, with cq routing, cabling, extra equipment (if any), so that you can easily record in one room using headphones with speakers silent, then turn up speakers to listen to the result and mix.

I have been diving deep in the manual, forum, and internet, and haven’t found anything so far…possibly a passive studio monitor controller (eg Mackie Big Knob Passive Controller) between the main LR of the CQ18t and the monitors?

Many thanks in anticipation :+1:t3:

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Just an idea about it …

It’s neither standard nor textbook (sorry!), of course, but theoretically you could try using one of the two headphone outputs as the source for your active studio monitors.
Then you could assign the level controls of both headphone outputs to two Soft Rotaries and thus always have full control over both.
I would be really interested to know how it works. )

But a suitable “Big Knob” would also work, of course!

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Thanks, yes, interesting, I’ve seen that option mentioned, but having 2 headphones is a plus :slightly_smiling_face:. Does anyone know if there is a difference in sound quality and between studio monitors run from a headphones out, and being run from balanced outs? I’m guessing they are technically different…