How to get from di box to headphones?

[audienceofone]

Maybe this is a goofy question (note I didn't say dumb), but we had 2 drum sheilds around our drummer and things were going well. I play at church but our venue is "The Edge", so it is very rock like. One of the sheilds for our more normal venues broke so now there is just the one sheild, and when we play my right ear is ringing afterwards. Due to our stage area, I stand right next to the drummer. I tried using an earplug for that side but it also cut out too much of the vocals and guitars from the monitor.

I don't think the church has the money to buy an in ears system for me, does anyone have any ideas?

My original thought was if I could get the signals from a di box into a set of noice canceling headphones I could hear what I needed to without the drums making me go deaf.

[dgcalvert]

I'm doing a lot of experimentation at the moment with stage monitoring (including in-ear stuff).

At the moment, I am experimenting with on-stage monitoring using a little Behringer mixer (a little 4-channel mixer), which cost me about £40, that I usually use at home for practising - MP3 player in one channel, panned to my right ear, guitar into another channel, panned to my left ear.

Last night I tried it at band practice, with each of the three guitars DI'd into a channel and the vocals into another - with the mixer driving a set of headphones. The mixer can drive a set of headphones to a reasonable volume. I have a lot more work to do to sort out the mix, but at least I could hear everything at a volume that didn't leave my ears ringing. Remember, of course, that IMHO noise cancelling (or noise blocking) earphones won't block out all the ambient noise (expecially a loud drummer) but I have found so far that they will block out enough to offer a reasonable level of hearing protection.

This sort of setup might solve your problem for a fairly low cost.


Geoff

[bongomania]

DI ->small mixer with headphone output-> headphones.

[bassguitar]

+1 to above.

Can you put the shield on your side of the drummer?

[audienceofone]

Originally Posted by bassguitar

+1 to above.

Can you put the shield on your side of the drummer?

Things got a little better. we have a shield that goes around the front half of the drum kit, and they got a half height shield for the back half, so it blocks about half, but I am still thinking about the mixer idea to headphones.

[jumbosilverette]

Not to derail thread... I had same problem in recent performance. Is there a DI that has a headphone out?

[bongomania]

The PJ Bass Buddy does!

[jumbosilverette]

Thanks Bongo.

[Petebass]

Have a look at this thread :-

In-Ear monitoring on the cheap - my successful experiment.