Hi everybody!
I've recently converted to IEM. Oh, I think I should start from the beginning... I became a singer a year ago. And am planning to use in-ear monitoring since day zero (which hasn't yet arrived) live. Thing is our style is very dependent on all sorts of poisonous vocals we recorded in our LP. So me and one of the guitars (who's almost constatly singing vocal harmonies) turned to IEM. We're using pretty good quality Sennheiser stuff (we have some sort of price arrangement with the Spanish distributor). And we've been doing this seriously for some 6 months now.
Lately we've recorded several rehearsals in a 2 channel mix (vocals alone + a condenser mic for hearing the band itself). And reality struck us. We (most noticeably me) were singing a tad sharp all the time. We have 2 separate buses on the mixing board so initially we were having our own vocals, later mixed all voices. We just suposed we weren't getting enough instrument (mostly guitars) sound, so lowered our levels and just a couple rehearsals ago we added the signal from another mic, positioned towards the "guitar zone". Now it seems more comfortable but are constantly adjusting mixes because things look way more critical than we assumed way back now. Does it allways have to be this tough to find the right point?
We're planning the acquisition of a 4 bus mixer with 16 XLR inputs for using both for rehearsing and live, in which each of us will build his own mix of ALL the channels (and we have the 4th. bus for recording). But there's still a long way to go for that.
I've googled around A LOT once and again and the only piece of information I got was this:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090514015135AAbBwtq
(mostly discussed in question and 1st. answer)
Incredibly, this phenomenon of pitch perception changes with IEM doesn't seem to be too covered. I know there's lots of competent people on the subject of live monitoring here in TB, so please, I'd lovingly welcome any piece of advice, any tip or trick you can give me on the subject.
Thanx SO MUCH!
P/D: By the way, check out www.bittermambo.com to have an idea of the sort of work (and noise) we are committed to. E-mail me if you want the whole CD (14 songs in little over 36 minutes) in high quality MP3.
I've recently converted to IEM. Oh, I think I should start from the beginning... I became a singer a year ago. And am planning to use in-ear monitoring since day zero (which hasn't yet arrived) live. Thing is our style is very dependent on all sorts of poisonous vocals we recorded in our LP. So me and one of the guitars (who's almost constatly singing vocal harmonies) turned to IEM. We're using pretty good quality Sennheiser stuff (we have some sort of price arrangement with the Spanish distributor). And we've been doing this seriously for some 6 months now.
Lately we've recorded several rehearsals in a 2 channel mix (vocals alone + a condenser mic for hearing the band itself). And reality struck us. We (most noticeably me) were singing a tad sharp all the time. We have 2 separate buses on the mixing board so initially we were having our own vocals, later mixed all voices. We just suposed we weren't getting enough instrument (mostly guitars) sound, so lowered our levels and just a couple rehearsals ago we added the signal from another mic, positioned towards the "guitar zone". Now it seems more comfortable but are constantly adjusting mixes because things look way more critical than we assumed way back now. Does it allways have to be this tough to find the right point?
We're planning the acquisition of a 4 bus mixer with 16 XLR inputs for using both for rehearsing and live, in which each of us will build his own mix of ALL the channels (and we have the 4th. bus for recording). But there's still a long way to go for that.
I've googled around A LOT once and again and the only piece of information I got was this:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090514015135AAbBwtq
(mostly discussed in question and 1st. answer)
Incredibly, this phenomenon of pitch perception changes with IEM doesn't seem to be too covered. I know there's lots of competent people on the subject of live monitoring here in TB, so please, I'd lovingly welcome any piece of advice, any tip or trick you can give me on the subject.
Thanx SO MUCH!
P/D: By the way, check out www.bittermambo.com to have an idea of the sort of work (and noise) we are committed to. E-mail me if you want the whole CD (14 songs in little over 36 minutes) in high quality MP3.
