Our singer doesn't want in-ears BTW, so she will be sticking to floor monitors. I can understand that she don't want to isolate herself from the crowd, that's a good thing IMO.
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It's a lot more difficult to "mix and match" wedges, IEM's and mic'd amps. The point is to get a low stage volume. They do provide good sound protection though with a good seal.
Ambient mics can be used for room sound although I've never tried that. To me the difficulty is hearing more head voice transmission like with earplugs .
IEM is IMO for isolating the mix that I want to hear from what others want to hear. I wouldn't use it either if I wasn't singing backup vocals. The IEMs I just bought, makes me unable to hear anything outside, and those are probably the cheapest you can get. Our singer could proably sing perfectly in key even if she sang in a vacuum, unfortunatly I need to hear myself quite well to hit the correct notes.
If you are "drowning in the mix" then I recommend to leave the pedals at home until you have solved the basic problem. Focus on getting a good sound with a simple signal chain of bass -> DI -> mixing board -> monitors. Then once you have that all figured out, experiment with tastefully adding a few effects. Just my 2 cents. If you feel these effects are essential to your "voice" as a player then feel free to ignore my advice.
