Not yet. Kinda hoped they’d be in by now. Will probably check on them tomorrow, but already have plans to borrow a couple of PA speakers to use a monitors to get through this weekend.
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Band looking to go IEM. Need advice.
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One more question…
I have a empty channel and I’ve heard that putting a room mic on the crowd helps alleviate the isolation of wearing IEMs. Any suggestions on type of mic and location?
I have a empty channel and I’ve heard that putting a room mic on the crowd helps alleviate the isolation of wearing IEMs. Any suggestions on type of mic and location?
Then I’ll assume you know the answer and you’re purposely being unhelpful.
A lot of musicians like having an ambient mic set up to catch crowd noise and make using IEMs less isolated, especially if your inserts offer good noise rejection. If you're in a band that interacts with the audience, I'd say a room mic is essential. The best mic would be a PZM/boundary mic, in my opinion. Omni-directional polar pattern, they are made specifically for capturing ambient sound. You don't need to spend a fortune on one, <$100 easy.
What system did you settle on? I've just taken the plunge into wireless IEMs, ordered a Sennheiser XSW system. Never used in-ears before, so didn't want to blow a huge lump of coin, but also didn't want to go budget crap like XVIVE. Key requirement was having a "focus mix" control where each receiver can have their own blend between 2 signals - enables me to set up a main mix and a separate mix of my bass and click track from sequences and blend between the two as I desire. Anyone else tuning in to my transmitter can just dial in on the main mix. Or buy their own transmitter.
s0c9
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It's far simpler.. depending on which console you have.
Run a stereo mix OFF the console. You can pan and adjust levels on EVERY channel on the mixer. Ignore what you don't want. Negates blending anything but what YOU want in your mix.
If you're pulling from an Aviom/P16M, then you will be limited to 16 channels so will have to work w/ FOH to determine what is needed stage side.
Is this church or ?
You're assuming I'm getting or have a monitor console. Nope. This will be a simple monitor mix from the desk aux sends on the FOH console. So the IEMs are just taking place of a wedge, and by running 2 mono sends I can have 2 separate mixes - allowing for another band member to have their own mix from a single transmitter.
First and foremost this will be used in an "acoustic" duo I perform in, but I will also be using it with my band - when we finally start gigging.
Presonus Studiolive 16R mixer and Shure 215 earphones. For now we’re going wired with a generic headphone amp. If band members want to go wireless they can buy their own transmitter/receiver, which I suspect the lead singer will.
Same deal if they find they don’t like the 215s and want different/better headphones.
The Presonus can send 6 individual mixes, and each band member can use a cellphone app to dial in their own mix. You could easily integrate a click into this, but I don’t know if it’ll do a stereo mix as I haven’t tried to do this and I don’t have it in front of me to test.
We did our first gig with the Presonus last night and it went awesome… relatively easy to use. I’m not a soundman but have worked in DAW and found he interface relatively intuitive.
We wired up a few traditional monitors since the IEMs aren’t here yet and that worked well too. Zero complaints, looking forward to the actual IEM.
s0c9
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Ok so you are taking TWO mono feeds from 2 UAX sends at FOH and setting up the XSW to send 2 separate MONO channels and then use the PAN capability on the receiver to blend.
Got it. That was NOT clear [to me] from your prior posts.
Ok so you are taking TWO mono feeds from 2 UAX sends at FOH and setting up the XSW to send 2 separate MONO channels and then use the PAN capability on the receiver to blend.
Got it. That was NOT clear [to me] from your prior posts.
That's the one. Sorry I wasn't clear.
s0c9
Supporting Member
Posting the same question that's already been answered hundreds of times is not helpful. It's lazy and attention seeking.
Says the guy who keeps seeking attention by wasting my time in this thread.
