Making a headphone bus

Dubbing stages are noisy places.…Often there are systems available that are offline, usually in an adjacent room…where last-minute changes can be addressed.…Even if there is this option, sometimes changes need to be made on the stage.…In order to work on the stage, monitoring with headphones is often necessary.…Try not to do this for too long though.…The first film that I ever did with Pro Tools on a dubbing stage was a film…called Wilder Napalm, the first film ever where the music was dubbed…directly from Pro Tools.…

I made tons and tons of changes for days wearing headphones.…The headphones were pressing on the back my glasses, and I ended up with…involuntary spasms in the back of my head and my neck for days.…Let's go to the I/O Setup.…We need to create a 5.1 headphone bus, and some mono subpaths.……We also need to create a headphone output.…

…Let's go to our mixer, create 5 Aux Inputs.…Let's assign these inputs to the headphone bus sequential outputs, left…center, right, left surround and right surround.…