Pulled the trigger on a new board and IEMs - reviews to follow!

Sweetwater's 48 month 0% financing is a dangerous thing. That's how I ended up with a L6 G70 and Senn EW300 last year. And now I'm eyeballing a L6 Helix....

 

I upgaded my QSC K10's to K10.2's using that financing.

 

Nice. This showed up from Sweetwater yesterday:


The main intent is to use it for IEMs for the band, and also for the luckily dwindling 'bring your own PA' gigs we'll use it for FOH as well. The idea is that the two splitters below will take up to 16 mic/lines from stage, into the Soundcraft for our monitor needs (currently wired not wireless) then the DI outs will go to the house snake.

Also, as a quick tip, if you order a handful of stuff, go through your Sweetwater rep. We did and saved about 1/3rd off their already good web-pricing.

 

We used our UI24 in a really huge barn the other night. The FOH could have been really difficult, but being able to notch out trouble frequencies made things sound REALLY nice. We also did similarly, 3 vocals, kick & a lil' hat, and 2 keyboards out front the rest was our standard backline. We ran a laptop on top of our rack as insurance, but only needed phones for the mix.

 

Yeah, we just bought everyone SE215's although I'm using a pair of cheap multi-driver KZ's right now instead. We didn't use them for our gig because we wanted everyone to be comfortable with the setup before using it live, and to make sure we knew the Soundcraft would behave as planned. In rehearsal last night with the IEM setup it became pretty apparent that while we're already pretty tight, it's only going to get more so. One of the reasons we chose the 24 was that it has 8 aux sends so we can cover the full band and have one for our dub-station.

 

@BurningSkies - can you note what you are doing for your wired IEM solution?

 

Sure...for the signal chain it's XLR into the splitter, one jumper to the Ui16R, one to house. The 8 aux sends get XLR's to our personal amp packs which for right now are Behringer Powerplay 1 units: Behringer Powerplay P1 Personal In-ear Monitor Amplifier

We've bought 25 foot XLRs for the runs that are mic/di to splitter and I have a 16 channel 25' snake to run to the stage snake. Each player also has a 15' XLR cable.

We bought 7 sets of Shure SE215's for our members as 'get off the ground' IEMs. Although I've been using a pair of 18$ KZ ZST dual drivers instead with really good success. I'm about to try the KZ ZS6's to see how they work.

 

@BurningSkies - TYVM, that's my goal for or group!

 

I don't know if Charlie quoted stuff out for you or not, but we ended up paying for 'basics' for all our band members then let them decide if they wanted to personally upgrade. The discount we ended up with gave us enough extra cash for additional mics, DI's and a few other things. Also, it turns out my $20 cheap knock offs have been as good or better than the basic Shure iems.

 

I’ll be reaching out to Charlie shortly, been working on getting my shopping list together and deciding on speakers/subs. Guess that’s my biggest dilemma at this point.