Hi folks,
First time posting in a while but I have been lurking faithfully.
At a recent gig, I had a band flung on stage who were a major "challenge" to get monitors happening for. The line up includes a full acoustic drumkit, electric backline, and a cello and violin. The strings have pickups, but not particularly great ones. Hearing vocals and strings on stage requires extensive tweaking of the monitor EQ to get adequate gain before feedback. At the moment they're playing small venues and are at the mercy of whatever's there. Apparently some of their gigs have been complete train wrecks. (I thought I'd made a pretty crap job of their gig with me but apparently it was far better than their average experience)
We've had a bit of email chat back and forward, and one thing I'd suggested was that they go onto some form of in-ear monitoring. They are on an extremely tight budget so will probably go wired rather than wireless. I'd imagine that they will use some cheap(ish) four way headphone amps. There are seven of them in the band, so two units would give them eight mixes. If they're turning up to a small festival, I expect it'd be reasonably easy to swap a rack of headphone amps in place of the monitor amplifiers.
My only concern is that this means we will be running reasonably long headphone extensions around the stage. I've got a source for good quality cable with decent amounts of screening, but I've not had the chance to test anything like this before so I want to make sure I'm not selling them a pup.
Has anyone run with a system similar to this? Any problems with signal drop over, say, a 40ft run? Keen to hear of any experience that people have had "in the trenches", so to speak.
I know that there are many other solutions that they could explore (Aviom, wireless, etc.) but they just don't have the budget and this seems like a good way to dip a toe in the water.
First time posting in a while but I have been lurking faithfully.
At a recent gig, I had a band flung on stage who were a major "challenge" to get monitors happening for. The line up includes a full acoustic drumkit, electric backline, and a cello and violin. The strings have pickups, but not particularly great ones. Hearing vocals and strings on stage requires extensive tweaking of the monitor EQ to get adequate gain before feedback. At the moment they're playing small venues and are at the mercy of whatever's there. Apparently some of their gigs have been complete train wrecks. (I thought I'd made a pretty crap job of their gig with me but apparently it was far better than their average experience)
We've had a bit of email chat back and forward, and one thing I'd suggested was that they go onto some form of in-ear monitoring. They are on an extremely tight budget so will probably go wired rather than wireless. I'd imagine that they will use some cheap(ish) four way headphone amps. There are seven of them in the band, so two units would give them eight mixes. If they're turning up to a small festival, I expect it'd be reasonably easy to swap a rack of headphone amps in place of the monitor amplifiers.
My only concern is that this means we will be running reasonably long headphone extensions around the stage. I've got a source for good quality cable with decent amounts of screening, but I've not had the chance to test anything like this before so I want to make sure I'm not selling them a pup.
Has anyone run with a system similar to this? Any problems with signal drop over, say, a 40ft run? Keen to hear of any experience that people have had "in the trenches", so to speak.
I know that there are many other solutions that they could explore (Aviom, wireless, etc.) but they just don't have the budget and this seems like a good way to dip a toe in the water.
