The Roland HS-5 Session Mixer empowers up to five musicians to rehearse, jam, and record together while using headphones for monitors. Each musician has individual hands-on control over their respective headphone mix as well as access to built-in effects such as EQ, compression, reverb and Roland's COSM effects for guitar amp modeling, bass amp modeling, and vocals.
The whole band can record a stereo mix at 44.1 kHz 16-bit resolution to a USB thumb drive or use the mixer as an audio interface connected to a computer via USB cable. As an audio interface, each track can be recording individually into a DAW.
The back panel of the mixer features four sections A, B, C, and D - each of which features an XLR-3F connector for microphone inputs as well as a stereo Left/Mono and Right pair of 1/4" inputs for instruments such as guitar, bass, and keyboards. A fourth section labeled E, features Left and Right line inputs as well as an 1/8" stereo input. Adjacent to this section is a Left and Right pair of 1/4" outputs for connecting to studio monitors as well as an 1/8" headphone output.
The top of the mixer features control knobs for Gain/Comp, Bass, Middle, Treble, and Pan that can be assigned to the five mixes, as well as a main mix output control and transport controls for recording the mix. Each individual musician section features an 1/8" and 1/4" headphone output for monitoring as well as a phones control knob, a reverb control knob, and a my mix knob.
A click/tap button allows you to set the tempo and a built-in metronome ensures everyone keeps time together. All of the unit's settings can be saved to a USB thumb drive for future recall when resuming the jam. For even more fun, two HS-5 mixers can be connected in tandem to accommodate up to eight musicians at a time.
Features:
- Personal Monitor Mix Control
Enables each musician to dial in their preferred level of their own microphone or instrument mix relative to the main mix as well as control over independent headphone level and reverb
- Connect Two Mixers in Tandem
Allows for up to eight musicians to play simultaneously
- USB Thumb Drive Recording
Record a stereo mix at 44.1 kHz 16-bit resolution to a USB thumb drive
Record each musician's track individually to a Computer DAW via USB Cable
Provides guitar amp modeling, bass amp modeling, and vocal effects
Features a click/tap button to start and set a metronome so all the musicians can play in time together
Allows you to save and recall each musicians preferred settings to a USB thumb drive for future sessions
