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Monitor Systems

#2
KingRazor said:
Does anyone know of any other company that makes an IEM system like this one?

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The features of this unit are great, but it's a bit pricy. If there are other options like it, I'm interested.
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I've seen a few the magazine that has a ton of options like this is "technology for praise and worship"

When I post a passthrough mixer and wireless this solution gets you 99% there as most monitor requests are for "more me"

Road acts commonly use a recording interface for this functions
 
#3
MNAirHead said:
I've seen a few the magazine that has a ton of options like this is "technology for praise and worship"

When I post a passthrough mixer and wireless this solution gets you 99% there as most monitor requests are for "more me"

Road acts commonly use a recording interface for this functions
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The thing I like about the one I posted is that the musicians don't have to ask the sound guy to adjust their ears, they can just do it themselves.
 
#7
Each M-48 is about $1,000 and then you need other equipment to go with them which would be at least an S-4000D for $1,600 and an S-0816 for $1,700. So that would be at least $11,300 for a system with 8 mixers. Ouch!

Add an S-1608 for $1,700 and you would have a full digital 16 send, 8 return snake.

Someone really needs to come up with a system that normal, everyday bands can afford.

- John
 
#9
BTW, for anyone reading this thread and thinking the cost of these systems is just ridiculous, check out the JamHub products. A system that provides individual mixes for up to seven musicians is only $500. Very cool.

It's on a whole different level than the Roland and Aviom systems discussed above, but actually very capable and easy to use. They talk about practice use but they have been used live as well. If you had a snake with enough returns, you could send each person's feed back from the board to the Jamhub and then each person on stage could make their own monitor mix and feed that to in-ears, wedge, etc.

- John
 
#10
JKos said:
BTW, for anyone reading this thread and thinking the cost of these systems is just ridiculous, check out the JamHub products. A system that provides individual mixes for up to seven musicians is only $500. Very cool.

It's on a whole different level than the Roland and Aviom systems discussed above, but actually very capable and easy to use. They talk about practice use but they have been used live as well. If you had a snake with enough returns, you could send each person's feed back from the board to the Jamhub and then each person on stage could make their own monitor mix and feed that to in-ears, wedge, etc.

- John
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Our act uses the TourBus edition for rehearsals and it kicks ass. I will investigate what it will take to get this rigged into a live performace setup. Great idea!
 
#11
JKos said:
Each M-48 is about $1,000 and then you need other equipment to go with them which would be at least an S-4000D for $1,600 and an S-0816 for $1,700. So that would be at least $11,300 for a system with 8 mixers. Ouch!

Add an S-1608 for $1,700 and you would have a full digital 16 send, 8 return snake.

Someone really needs to come up with a system that normal, everyday bands can afford.

- John
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Luckily my curch has an M-400 Mixer with two S-1608 digital snakes already. So we wouldn't have to buy nearly as much extra hardware as anyone starting from scratch with the M-48 system.
 
#12
JKos said:
BTW, for anyone reading this thread and thinking the cost of these systems is just ridiculous, check out the JamHub products. A system that provides individual mixes for up to seven musicians is only $500. Very cool.

It's on a whole different level than the Roland and Aviom systems discussed above, but actually very capable and easy to use. They talk about practice use but they have been used live as well. If you had a snake with enough returns, you could send each person's feed back from the board to the Jamhub and then each person on stage could make their own monitor mix and feed that to in-ears, wedge, etc.

- John
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That's kind of cool, but that wouldn't really be any better than what we have now.

We have a 16(?) channel board on the stage that provides an IEM mix for about half of the band (drums, keys, and synth).

Then we have four wedge monitors on stage (we only use 1-2 generally though) for background vocals and/or acoustic guitar.

The lead singer has a wireless IEM pack that is controlled from the FOH board.

The electric guitar players (there's always at least one, sometimes two) and the bassist use amps for their monitors.

We want to move to an amp-less stage. So we would need a personal mix for drums, bass, two keyboards, three guitars, lead vocals and background vocals. That's at least 9, assuming we don't want to give each of the background vocalists their own mix.
 
#17
KingRazor said:
Now those look pretty interesting. If they're cheaper than the Aviom or M-48 systems I'd be interested.
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They run about $650 per unit. What else might be required for it depends on the rest of your setup (whether you're using a console or splitter, etc.) and how it needs to be integrated into that...

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Another option would be the Hear Technologies Hearback system. I've been using this in my bands practice space for the past 5 years or so. Much cheaper than the Aviom system (prob around $1800 for 6 mixes). Though not quite as many features as the Aviom, it's easy to integrate, works well and sounds good. Their tech support is great too, FME.

I've looked into the MyMix, and it's a nice system for sure... just not worth the price of the upgrade for my use. Pretty slick interface though and some other interesting features. I've talked to some of the guys at the company and they seem quite responsive as well. If I were to upgrade, I would definitely go MyMix over Aviom even if price wasn't a factor.
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Chris
 
#20
I forgot , there is also this system:


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And you give each musician one of these:
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(idr16 is around 5K$ remotes around 500$ each)

The Roland system looks neat
 

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