Using wireless in ears & a personal mixer together?

My new band is considering in ears & I have a question. Our current mixer has 2 monitor sends, 1 for the dummer & 1 for the 2 guitars, keys & bass. We all 5 have vocal mics, & the drummer will stay with his wedge. To hook up a wired in ear set-up with "more me" is no biggie using a Rolls PM351 (or similiar). Mixer>4 way splitter>Rolls PM351>ear buds. This way each of us can loop our mics & instruments via the Rolls & then use wired ear buds. But 1 guitarist & myself use instrument wireless & would like to be wireless w/our ear buds. Could we go out of the Rolls into the wireless in ear transmitter? It's no different than my computer/ipad/mp3 headphone out, right? Plus all the in ear systems I'm looking at have input pads so that should help, yes? I am having trouble coming up with any other way till we up grade our mixer & get individual monitor mixes. Any thoughts or ideas on any of this is welcome. Thanks.

PS--I also have an idea for ambient sound/talking to each other. Each of us wears a lavalier mic (or place 2-4 mics on stage) which runs to a 4 channel line mixer (like an ART SPLITMix4) then out into 1 channel of the board to be mixed with the monitors only.

 

Not sure you can tap the headphone outputs, but doing so might overdrive the inputs on the wireless. A passthru line-level signal would be better..

This is exactly my concern. But for the life of me I can't find something with a pass-thru for the monitor mix plus having the ability to control & pass-thru our vocal mic & guitars/bass. The ambient mics are, as of now, not a major concern. If we need'em at all.

 

Thought about this but even though I could split my bass using my SABDDI I'd have to get a splitter box for my vocal mic.

 

Screw it! Time to get the digital mixer w/6+ monitor mixes. Problem solved.

 

After a little more research the small mixer & a XLR y-cable for vocals, my SABDDI will work for splitting signals. Then just add the monitor in and R & L out to the wireless. I thought the y cable was a no no but I guess it will only reduce the signal a few db.

 

I forgot about the 882, but the 802 mixer is a little cheaper & I can use it at home as well. So channel 1 of the 802 will be my vocal (using an XLR y cable to split), channel 2 - my bass (using my SABDDI to split) & then I will put the monitor mix into channel 5/6 left mono (remember I'm sharing this monitor mix w/4 other guys, hence the need for 2 "more me" split inputs + a monitor in). Then use the 802's main outs into a wireless in ear system, like s0c9 said. Or use the headphone out as a hard wired set-up.

Behringer 802

Hosa YXM121 - 6

 

I read during my research that Dave Matthews bands monitor guy is using lavalier mics for ambient sound, so I think I'll try it. Found some lav mics for $40 bucks on Sweetwater. Will use a 4 input line mixer (like the ART SPLITMix4) to group them & only use 1 channel on our FOH mixer. Also thinking of trying some 57's mounted on our lights. Maybe mix & match. Our drummer runs sound so if he can mute/unmute great, otherwise they willhave to be low in the monitor mix.

 

Forgot! I just re-watched "Lemmy" on Netflix. IEM's are for wussies! I'm gonna run 2 mixed driver stacks, one either side of the drummer, w/huuuge tube power (cause it's louder!) and make eardrums bleeeed!!!! Tinnitus be damned!!
ROCK-N-ROLL!!!!!!!!

 

Yes, my intent w/the lavs & light mounted mics is for us to communicate & crowd noise. Same reason for DMB using lavs. I like your idea of "push to talk" mics & the shotguns. Alot easier than using lavs. The only thing that lavs would be better for is someone coming up to the stage to talk to one of us. But I still think your idea is the way to go. If nothing else grab the 58 & point it towards them.