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Ok. So last night we had our gig at Zeal. Wicked new venue by the way.
Anyways, it had been decided a couple of weeks back that I would use a click track to play to. Makes us a lot tighter and works really well. It had been a great idea, and worked out awesome while we were practising, but then problem was, to get the click track, I had to make a CD of click track because a simple metronome didn't work loud enough. So I ran the discman on stage into some earphones, and then put some earmuffs overtop. The problem was that I heard the metronome a cilantro, (the discman was weird as, koz it sort of skipped, so I didn't hear some clicks, but when it came back in, it was in time. WEIRD AS!), but the earmuffs really screw up the sound around me. My kit sounds really boomy and loads of reverb, and I don't think my monitor was working either.
So what I want, is some earphones or headphones that cut out loads of other noise, (but don't cut certain frequencies or make everything boomy and stuff), that go very loud becuase of how and where I'm using them, and I also need a way of setting all of this up so that I can have my earphones or headphones with my click track plus what would be in my monitor. So I need suggestions on how I can get a monitor feed from the main desk add in my metronome, boost the level, and hear it without all sorts of other sound on stage leaking in.
One thing I was wondering about is those in-ear moulded things. They look expensive, but when you're not buying the whole wireless setup how much are they really?
Cheers for any help I can get. If possible, something that I can sort out by this weekend
because we are gigging again then...
Cheers.
Anyways, it had been decided a couple of weeks back that I would use a click track to play to. Makes us a lot tighter and works really well. It had been a great idea, and worked out awesome while we were practising, but then problem was, to get the click track, I had to make a CD of click track because a simple metronome didn't work loud enough. So I ran the discman on stage into some earphones, and then put some earmuffs overtop. The problem was that I heard the metronome a cilantro, (the discman was weird as, koz it sort of skipped, so I didn't hear some clicks, but when it came back in, it was in time. WEIRD AS!), but the earmuffs really screw up the sound around me. My kit sounds really boomy and loads of reverb, and I don't think my monitor was working either.
So what I want, is some earphones or headphones that cut out loads of other noise, (but don't cut certain frequencies or make everything boomy and stuff), that go very loud becuase of how and where I'm using them, and I also need a way of setting all of this up so that I can have my earphones or headphones with my click track plus what would be in my monitor. So I need suggestions on how I can get a monitor feed from the main desk add in my metronome, boost the level, and hear it without all sorts of other sound on stage leaking in.
One thing I was wondering about is those in-ear moulded things. They look expensive, but when you're not buying the whole wireless setup how much are they really?
Cheers for any help I can get. If possible, something that I can sort out by this weekend
because we are gigging again then...
Cheers.
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