I am curious if the Beat Buddy 2 has unlinked headphone/main knob volume control? On the first one, when you dial down the main knob, it also quiets the headphones, but not vice versa. This presents limitations for monitoring purposes. It was mentioned before that volume control for headphones/main is locked to the hardware on the first one. Has this been addressed in the latest iteration, where the player can listen through headphones with the main volume knob all the way down?
In the video, it shows they are separate. Press the vol once and it switches to headphone control, press again and switches back to main out control
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Oh, duh! Didn’t even see there was a video. Thanks.
Thank you for your question!
Dweezil’s response was incorrect. The BeatBuddy 2 works just like the BB1 in this regard. Both the main and headphone volumes are controlled through the same knob, and you can switch between them by clicking the encoder to toggle which volume you’re adjusting.
Thanks for clarifying, though I’m mostly wondering if they can be monitored separately? On the BB1, if you turn down the main volume, it also quiets the headphone audio, while when you roll down the headphone wheel, it quiets the phones audio without affecting the main volume. So like on the BB2, if I turn down the main vol., does it also turn down the headphones?
There is no difference between the behavior of the headphones on BB2, anything that the headphones on BB do, the BB2 handles identically. There is no splitting capacity. The only difference is now HP level is controlled by a knob (encoder) on the unit, and you click it to switch between the Headphone & Main volume controls. The port is also now a 1/4 inch jack and much more rigid and dependable because of that.
So turning down the main volume on BB2 does affect the headphone output? This was an unnecessary hardware limitation before on the BB1. There are several cases where a user might need to turn down the BB’s main output and only monitor the audio in headphones. There should be a way to do that with a chance at a new BB given past input so it’s no longer a hardware limitation, or at least configurable from firmware.
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The BeatBuddy 2 behaves the same way as the original, and it does not have the capacity to split the headphone and main volume separately. It was intentionally built this way to allow you to mix the input volume with the drum audio, giving you control over the balance between the drums and the audio signal when using headphones.
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