PreSonus HP4 Discrete 4-Channel Headphone Amp

Presonus makes a great and rugged product. Yes, it costs 4-5x more than the swarm of inexpensive headset amps. But you can say goodbye to failure, grounding hums, and not enough volume, or bad sound at high volume. How much is your peace of mind worth, anyway?

This unit powers my in-booth headset. During a remote session, I need to be able to clearly hear the director in my headset. This allows clear sound to come through.

I use this for my studio. With this I can record live drums from the drum room, live scratch track vocals as well as guitar in the live room and bass in the control room. With good closed headphones, everyone can hear what they need and that is a first for live recording in a few small rooms. It's so refreshing to play drums and hear everything you need, including vocals, bass and guitar while recording all of them live. Seriously, I can actually play through a miked marshall stack and sing in the same room and get a great scratch track for vocals. Watch your performance and recordings improve when you actually can hear everything clearly. (of course, you redo vocal recording to get rid of guitar bleed from amp 5 feet away). But don't expect this or any unit to work if you don't have decent headphones. Get Vic Firth headphones as they cut almost all background out. Yes, they are for drums but work great for recording. Need to get some amp feedback for that wild guitar track? A good set of headphones and this unit and the sound is clear and every instrument is in your ear mix better than that stoned sound dude will ever mix at the bar. The set up is sweet as I run my powered KRK speakers and sub woofer through the unit. If I need to turn off the control room speakers and just run headphones, its an easy one-button solution. Also, the mono option is great to check phase issues in your mix so its really more than just a headphone mixer. This is loud enough for any band and clean enough to forget you just damaged your ears so be careful.

I have checked this against my Apollo quad headphone jack individually and it does a fantastic job and I have high quality equipment..... I though I may have to take it back before opening after reading some other reviewers reviews but was happy after hearing and comparing , I'm sure it may not compare to $700 headphone preamps but it does the job well for the price..... and yes it does have an off and on switch!

I have a P1, but being a in ear monitor amp, it had issues with the limiter making the sound wave in and out. The Presonus has the biggest amp I could find within a budget. The guy that said his smoked must not of installed the rubber legs so it could get the air to the bottom vents. So if you need the extra power, this did the trick for my demanding of "extra power" style headphones. I mounted it my drum rack looks and sounds great. Don't send any more signal to the amp that you need to keep sound consistent.

Facilitates recording and switching from headphones to monitors