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Tweaking the monitor mix eq didn't help me much, nor did putting up an extra mic just for ambient sound. I'm still not 100% happy but it beats the hell outta floor monitors.
Good luck dude
I persevered for 3 months hoping I would get used to it, but in the end I realised I needed a guitar amp on stage. So I went back to using a clean valve amp with pedals.
I still use the IEM's though, both for monitoring vocals and the rest of the band. I have to say the sound of my guitar through a mic'd valve amp through the IEM's is so much better. If for some reason I'm not digging it, I just pull one of the earphones out so I can here the live sound of the amp.
I think its just a case of 'getting used to it' with IEMs. It is weird and does maybe feel a bit sterile to start with, but now I wouldn't go back.
Now it feels weird not being able to hear everything so clearly, without having to absolutely crank my amp or whatever. I'm using this mainly for functions gigs atm, 2-3 gigs a week.
No terrible, but way off what a good gig would have sounded and felt like
I certainly don't have a problem getting a great mic'ed sound in my iem's ... I would have thought the helix would have a pretty good speaker sim and virtual mic settings .... maybe do some tweaking
one of my friends uses a palmer speaker simulator for his iem's and swears by it
I find it fine - just to clarify that your headphone mix is from the PA?
I hate playing guitar through headphones of any kind.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I use a Sennheiser Wireless IEM kit and also have a cheapo LD systems one as a backup and both sound great.
Sounds to me like either the headphone mixer is being supplied with a less than ideal signal or the headphone mixer itself ain't great.
If you're not enjoying it as it stands, that's what I would do anyway…
This is something that really puzzles me about volume nazis soundmen in any set-up where there is an acoustic kit.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein