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<blockquote data-quote="Kim Watson" data-source="post: 4678" data-attributes="member: 41">I was sat thinking the other day (dangerous thing for me to do), as a monitor engineer I don&#039;t think I have ever actually heard another engineers version of mixing in ear monitors. It&#039;s really easy as a monitor babysitter over the years hearing how the Pros are doing wedges / side-fills but with in-ears the babysitter tends to miss out on hearing whats actually going on.I have recently taken over doing a band who are exclusively on IEM and my approach is different from their previous monitor guy. It got me wondering what are other peoples approaches to dealing with IEM, How do you construct your mixes? what tricks are you using to get that separation in there? and to generally make them sound good!I approach it as a full mix as apposed to just the instrument or vocal of the person. Using panning to create the separation and layering verbs to create a bit of depth to the mixes. I&#039;ve also started splitting channels to have compressed and uncompressed things in there. Uncompressed for say the singer..... and compressed for everyone else to keep their mixes stable. I suppose I&#039;m just looking for more ideas to steal! Kim</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kim Watson, post: 4678, member: 41"] I was sat thinking the other day (dangerous thing for me to do), as a monitor engineer I don't think I have ever actually heard another engineers version of mixing in ear monitors. It's really easy as a monitor babysitter over the years hearing how the Pros are doing wedges / side-fills but with in-ears the babysitter tends to miss out on hearing whats actually going on. I have recently taken over doing a band who are exclusively on IEM and my approach is different from their previous monitor guy. It got me wondering what are other peoples approaches to dealing with IEM, How do you construct your mixes? what tricks are you using to get that separation in there? and to generally make them sound good! I approach it as a full mix as apposed to just the instrument or vocal of the person. Using panning to create the separation and layering verbs to create a bit of depth to the mixes. I've also started splitting channels to have compressed and uncompressed things in there. Uncompressed for say the singer..... and compressed for everyone else to keep their mixes stable. I suppose I'm just looking for more ideas to steal! Kim [/QUOTE]

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