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In-Ear Monitoring

  • 11-03-2009 12:17pm
    #1
    fitz
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 8,344 ✭✭✭


    Folks,

    Getting back into the live arena, and am looking into the practicalities of using in-ears. I'm used to playing/singing with custom molded plugs, so the isolation side of things doesn't bother me. Really want to have more of a studio monitoring feel to my live work instead of wedges. I'm thinking of getting a set of drivers that are designed specifically to plug into my custom molded plugs, effectively turning them into IEMs.

    Any recommendations on the transmitter/body pack side of things?
    Anyone got experience in how to go about using them in venues?

    Invest in a desk, split all the onstage inputs out to that, and run the transmitters off it's outputs? Would that present headaches for the FOH guys?

    Any advice is welcome.


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  • #2
    Savman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭Savman


    The Sennheiser units are by far the best bang for buck, fantastic units tbh. If you have custom moulds you can just plug them into the 1/8" jack on the bodypack receiver and bob's yer uncle.

    In larger venues, you will have to make sure the transmitter is on stage and always maintain 'line of sight' for best signal. Not a good idea to have the setup at the desk if the desk is miles away, you'll just get significant signal drop.

    Also, make sure you get something operating in 863-865Mhz band, its the only 'legal according to comreg' frequency range in Ireland.


  • #3
    Brien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭Brien


    No offence intended here, but never trust a house engineer with in ears. if someone fcuks up/ doesnt know what they are doing/ doesnt like you, they can send send feedback straight to your ears and possibly make you deaf. if you do go with in ears, have your own sound engineer, and make sure you trust them!!!


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