Sidivan said:Make sure you set them up ahead of time. Get your monitor mix figured out. Make sure it's in stereo so you can pan people properly. I really can't stress this enough. Without a proper stereo mix, you will hate them.
Also, be prepared for a bit of weirdness. It doesn't sound like you're standing in front of a wedge. It sounds more like you're listening to a recording of yourself playing... but in realtime. The first few times you play through them it'll feel a little creepy... kinda... disembodied.
My entire band goes in ear now and it's fantastic. Also, because we have an electronic kit for rehearsal, everybody goes direct into the board and my wife can still watch TV upstairs while we're cranking it up! IEM's are great!
dpeterson said:the psm200 is mono only fyi. the e2c's are adequate that came with the one i have, i still use mine, but i'm getting a set of triple drivers from fidelityaudio (this week hopefully). I bought the Carvin em900 wireless which is stereo, and sounds great for 1/3 the price of the sennheiser, with almost the exact same specs. you can also set it up for dual mono and send 2 mixes to the pack and then blend / mix it on the pack.
yes i'd never setup an ear mix at a gig for the first time.. yikes. we are still having problems with our singer after about 10 practices with them. he keeps saying he cant hear anything, and i put my buds in his pack and it sounds fine, so i'm not sure what is going on. So i'm going to try to compress him before he hits the wireless so it'll smooth out his vox. i think he hits it full boar and then it peaks and clamps down the mix.
another thing, dont setup a stereo mix at practice if you cant replicate that at a gig. for every stereo mix you need 2 aux sends, so 3 guys with stereo mixes = 6 auxes, which is a lot for a board, most dont have that many.
Get intimate with your buds... i wear mine for ipod listening, and to cut the grass in, and exercising, so i get used to the feel over extended wear times. the custom molds should be awesome when i get them this week. Seal of the buds is also crucial.. especially if you have loud stage volume, you should not be able to hear hardly anything outside of the mix once they are in.
Play with the levels... mixing is an art, and not the easiest things to do. dont keep pushing up volumes to get something louder.. take other things down, and watch the volume on the pack, it should be a comfortable volume.
vaxed. . . . are you taking a line level monitor feed from the board and plugging this into your PSM200? If so, are you the only one using this feed? Also, are others in the band on IEM's?vaxed said:I didn't really get time to get my mix spot on before the gig, also I only have a mono mix.
Hence the first set was a nightmare, felt so weird....... I was really unhappy.
I bought a Shure PSM200, which comes with the E2 earphones. This is the budget end of the Shure stuff I guess.
Anyway ot going to give up quite yet. :?
Thanks for your interest in Sensaphonics. The 3DAA-2 is $2,500.00.
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That's the ultimate way to go, having the ambient mics built in (the AxeFX of in-ears :lol: ).xrist04 said:Sensaphonics just quoted me $2500 for their 3DAA-2 package. :shock:
Secret80'sMan said:The Carvin IEM system is definitely a real good buy, I heard some complaints regarding noise but I wondered how much of that noise could you hear when everyone is playing right?
Hope some of this helps.