nacoran
6713 posts
Apr 18, 2013
8:58 PM
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Someone was complaining they couldn't hear themselves on stage the other day at a jam, and that got me thinking, is there a simple solution in a situation without control of the monitor.
I've seen XLR to 1/8 adapters, and XLR to USB, and the Blue Yeti has a headphone jack with a volume control, (and the Pro version has an XLR jack) but it's a beast size wise. Maybe headphones with a mic? All the personal monitor systems seem to be beasts designed to sit a couple wires down the line. It seems like the circuit wouldn't need to be that complicated to just amplify you (I know that's not a true monitor, since it wouldn't give you the whole mix, but if you can't hear yourself it's often because the rest of the mix is already plenty audible. Any simple solutions for less than perfect sound situations?
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Greg Heumann
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Apr 18, 2013
10:26 PM
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Not that hard to "auxiliary amplify" yourself. The problem is the necessity of something in or over your ears to hear it. Which completely ruins any hope you have of knowing how loud you are in the mix. Just put an ear plug in one ear - you'll hear yourself fine. But you probably won't like it. I don't.
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Last Edited by Greg Heumann on Apr 18, 2013 10:27 PM
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HawkeyeKane
1596 posts
Apr 19, 2013
7:13 AM
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I agree with Greg. Short of a really good in-ear monitor which can be really pricey, a plug in the ear is a surefire way to hear yourself on both harp and vocals. I used to do it fairly often, and I need to start doing it again.
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nacoran
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Apr 19, 2013
10:34 AM
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As USB becomes more common as a mic cord, it will be interesting to see if mixing boards will be able to use the mic cord send a mix back from the board. I find the headphone jack on my Yeti really useful (despite some weird driver issues it has). A discrete USB port might even let you put a little dongle in and run it to wireless headphones (like the little dongle for wireless mics.) Everything I Google seems to be a specialty box that you have to put in. XLR wouldn't let you run a signal both directions at the same time would it? If it did, maybe a splitter at the mixer could let you run into and out of the mixer on one wire?
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