Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
looking for ideas on monitors
- Thread starter safeshow
- Start date
If you're going to be be 'on the road' with floor monitors, I much prefer active; the less racks of amps to lug about the better!
Mackie SRM450s make fantastic foldback if you have the money, if you're on a budget, then I would recommend looking at JBL.
Hope that helps!
Mackie SRM450s make fantastic foldback if you have the money, if you're on a budget, then I would recommend looking at JBL.
Hope that helps!
I haven't tried them yet but my research has led me to the EV ZXA-1 for use as a portable monitor for bands that do their own sound.
Hi.
Monitors to replace a sound person?
Good luck with that.
We used cheapo active 15"+1" actives that did the job well.
Regards
Sam
Monitors to replace a sound person?
Good luck with that.
We used cheapo active 15"+1" actives that did the job well.
Regards
Sam
I hate active monitors, unless hybrid cables are used - otherwise the cabling is way too messy.
SRM450s love to thermal when used as monitors - don't do it.
The trouble with wedges is that unless your stage volume is quite low, once you get the wedges as loud as you want them, the spill off the back of them wrecks the sound in the house. IEMs don't have this problem, and if you go wired the cost is no more than the cost of wedges.
If ditching a sound guy.. consider in ears.
I can walk you through affordable options (PM me)
Buying quality used will cost about as much as traditional monitors.
I can walk you through affordable options (PM me)
Buying quality used will cost about as much as traditional monitors.
I would nver try mixing from stage throught IEM. I use them personally but I know it sounds entirely diff. from the foh. I also agree the Mackies goe thermal all the time on their sides. We use a pair of the new QSC powered 12" tops as monitors onstage. They are amazing and even hande the Yamaha electronic drum kit we use as an amp and vocal monitor.
Chris
Chris
there is a guy selling 3 Mackie Tapco thump TH-15a $250ea in classifieds. nice monitors if i had $500 i would of bought a pair of them. already using 2 myself @ $350ea 
btw if you are doing your own sound i suggest you do what i do. wireless your bass and walk around the venue to get a sound for everything. much better than trying to mix with monitors.
btw if you are doing your own sound i suggest you do what i do. wireless your bass and walk around the venue to get a sound for everything. much better than trying to mix with monitors.
there is a guy selling 3 Mackie Tapco thump TH-15a $250ea in classifieds. nice monitors if i had $500 i would of bought a pair of them. already using 2 myself @ $350ea
btw if you are doing your own sound i suggest you do what i do. wireless your bass and walk around the venue to get a sound for everything. much better than trying to mix with monitors.
Sorry Thumps are for chumps.
A single mackie 450 is as loud as a pair of thumps. Mackie Thump TH-15A Active Speaker Specifications:Acoustic Performance
Frequency Range (-10 dB): 40Hz-20kHz
Frequency Response (-3 dB): 50Hz-18.5kHz
Horizontal Coverage Angle: 90°
Vertical Coverage Angle: 60°
Maximum SPL Long-Term: 113dB SPL @ 1mMaximum SPL Peak: 116dB SPL @ 1m
That is just not going to cut it if you need loud monitors. Those things would suck for FOH speakers IMO also.
you are right they sound a little different but the difference, I think, is in the fact that they have a bit more clarity due to the nature of the monitors, plus the ability to do a personal mix is huge to me. My cheap-y little setup sounds fantastic and I love that I can dial in exactly what I want.
My old setup was Sure (can't find the model name) single driver SE's into a little bitty Behringer 502 board.
I have since switched to wireless, but the other day my wireless s#%t the bed and I had to switch back. The sound quality was better on the wired system!
$100 for the ears
$50 for the board
$50 in cables.
Seriously a game changer.
Wow...My bro has been gigging 6 450s on the floor for ~10 years and very rarely gets any thermal issues; I've used them as FOH and monitors many times, sometimes at ridiculous volumes and haven't encountered issues such as this...What situation were you in where they kept going thermal?
As for cables, I totally agree. I make up my own (longer) power cables for reaching the monitors, which helps tidy up the stage a bit. For me, it just makes sense to not have to carry an amp rack on the van along with everything else, but of course that's just my own way of doing things!
Also, my church uses IEMs...I really do think they're ace, but aren't the answer to everything; you can't hear the crowd with earphones in, and if they fail then you're stranded with just the FOH to monitor from.
All of them
The least taxing was a band in which only the guitarist was on a wedge, and it was carrying only guitar and vocals at a pretty nominal level. He had to move his fan to the wedge on every show (and it was not the same 450 every time).
