From chuckh4115@yahoo.com Sun Mar 16 16:48:30 2003
Subject:Re: In Ear Monitors

Hey Tony,
Don't give up yet.
There are a couple of thing syou can try.
The optimum situation is for the band to have it's own monitor mixer.
Our band has it's own mixer and I take one of the Aux sends out and
use it as a headphone/IEM mix. I use a little Rolls headphione amp
between the Aux out and my IEM. that way I don't have to go over to
the moniotr board every time I need to boost or cut volume.
Secondly, in the event you guys don't have a monitor board, buy a
little mixer for your keys. I have two that I can use. A Mackie
VLZ1402 and a little Behringer 6 channel. I can run my piano and
Leslie mics into the mixer and use one side of the stereo outs for a
FOH send and the other can go to the monitor board wherever or
whatever it may be. OR just take a mono send to the FOH. It makes
no difference what you send to them, The kicker here is that you get
to use the headphone section of the mixer to set your own IEM mix.
On the mackie you can set a mix for yourself and one for the house.
The only drawback is that the FOH guy gets all of your keys summed in
one mono or stereo mix. Depending on what you send him.
There is a thrid way.
On the Mackie I hard pan the leslie mics right and the piano send
gets hard panned left. I use my IEMs set to mono mix so I can hear
everything and the FOH guy gets your individual instruments that he
can ride levels on. With teh Mackie you can get the engineer to send
a board mix back to one of your mixer channels and you can then
adjust the band as a whole in your IEMs.
In my cast the band is so loud that I don't use any instruments in my
IEM mix. Only vocals and my keys.
Works like a charm for me. The key is having a flexible little
mixer.
If you notice, most of the keyboardists in national and international
touring acts have theri own mixers so they can mix their owon sound
as they like it and it's not controlled by an engineer.
Engineers hate no having EQ control but theat's their problem.
Chuck
Check out Checter Thompson's rig sometime.

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