iem transition

At the ripe age of 34 I’ve already done some permanent damage to my hearing. The classic situation of “it’ll never happen to me” or “I’ll sort ear protection” later that I know a lot of us go through and then we realise it’s too late. Dumb. I am dumb. With the better late than never concept in...

The classic country/Americana band I'm in is dipping its toe in the IEM waters. Two gigs ago our steel player and I used Rolls personal mixers to mix the monitor feed from the PA with our own mics and instruments. It was my first experience with IEMs and I loved it. The bandleader had to ask me...

Anybody notice this: Since the Covid lockdown, gigs are now being greeted by renewed code enforcement for noise ordinances. We played a gig at a country club two weeks ago and the cops showed up and said if our Db level did not get under the 55Db threshold tickets would be written. FoH was way...