Ear monitor

[Human Machine]

What's the best method to setup an ear monitor for live preformances and being able to adjust the volume on just the monitor. Would patching it through a mixer be the way to go? I have a K2600X and a Roland KC550.

[pchanze]

Normally you go through an aux or group on the monitor or FOH desk.

The shure PSM serie have a good feature. If you use it in mono, you could use the second input for adding another track in the mix, that you could control on the receiver.

Typically, I used this feature to add some keyboard in my mix.

[Tigerfolly]

What's the best method to setup an ear monitor for live preformances and being able to adjust the volume on just the monitor. Would patching it through a mixer be the way to go? I have a K2600X and a Roland KC550.

I've got a little personal monitor amp from Rolls that I run everything through. It's about $60 for one of these, and it's small enough that I mount it on my keyboard stand under my top tier keyboard. It has an input for your microphone, and a thru output that sends your raw microphone signal to the PA, as well as a stereo (1/4" TRS) monitor input for anything you want to throw into the mix. I have a TRS line from my amplifier's headphone output running into the monitor input of mine, so I can hear anything that runs into my amps through my in-ears.

The ideal setup would be through a board's aux send or monitor mix, but we don't run our own sound at every single show just yet.. so I can't rely on that.

[Human Machine]

Thanks. I looked into the Shure products and I think they're a bit pricy at this stage of the game. I purposely bought the amp I bought because it has a feature to use it as a stage monitor if your runingn through the PA, but now I'm questioning wheather it's going to create too much on stage noise that will interfere with the audience. I would definately prefer an in ear monitor. I guess I could go the mini amp route. That would provide enough of what I need. After all I really don't NEED wireless :roll: Does anyone have a problem with bar/small venue sound guys not understanding that the keyboard isn't a background intrument and it shouldn't be turned down. I haven't yet played out and I have a fear that I'm going to run into this problem and not know how to deal with them. How is your sound set up? Do you use your own equip? Do you run through a house PA and if so, do you have your own sound guy or at least communicate your individual bands needs to the house sound guy? I really have no idea how to handle this. I go to alot of prog rock concerts where the keyboardist is soloing and you'd never know it because some sound guy has his board (and ears) set to "rock" music.

[AFKAR]

Does anyone have a problem with bar/small venue sound guys not understanding that the keyboard isn't a background intrument and it shouldn't be turned down. I haven't yet played out and I have a fear that I'm going to run into this problem and not know how to deal with them. How is your sound set up? Do you use your own equip? Do you run through a house PA and if so, do you have your own sound guy or at least communicate your individual bands needs to the house sound guy? I really have no idea how to handle this.

Man i know where your comming from, i played this one venue where the sound guy didnt provide any foldback (we were told full inhouse PA). Not only did he have my keys way back in the mix....he had my vocals sitting behind the bass, drums and guitar!!!! :evil: Thats not good when your the lead singer as well!!!!!! :evil: :evil:

My solution (or solution in progress is getting the Shure PSM200. Im just worries about security radios inteferring with the Wireless headsets. Once ive sussed that out ill prbably buy one.

As for the braindead sound guy......BEAT HIM UP AND CRANK YOURSELF UP!!!!! \m/

[Tigerfolly]

What's the best method to setup an ear monitor for live preformances and being able to adjust the volume on just the monitor. Would patching it through a mixer be the way to go? I have a K2600X and a Roland KC550.

One more thing that may help, is you may not need wireless in-ear monitoring. If you're standing at your keyboard for the whole show, then you're not moving around -that- much anyway. Look at a wired solution (which is what I did), which might just end up better overall. A cheap wireless system always sounds cheap.. so to get something good, you need to put out a lot of cash.. but a cheap wired system always sounds good if you use good phones.. :)