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it’s well worth putting in the effort to get your mix right (and check the results)
I drive the IEMs from an LD Systems HPA1 belt worn amp ( the singer has just purchased the same). We are a 4 piece and, although only 2 x vocals, 2 x guitar and occasionally a kick run to FOH I take a DI from the bass and place a single over head on drums and run to mixer (Behringer XR18) so that I can have them in IEM mix. No ambient mics but obviously there is spill from the vocal mics and OH.
I've been running tests on my vocal pitching by basically recording a series of notes, intervals and scales into Cubase using different IEMs, headphones etc at various volumes, rev, EQ settings. Using Cubase's VariAudio I can check the results for pitch accuracy.
It is not possible to shelve the low end on the vocal purely for the IEM mix. You can shelve individual channels but the results are common to FOH and aux mix. I can EQ the overall aux mix (which I do).
At the moment I'm getting the best results with the vocal very low in the IEM mix (so it's a bit like the old folkie finger in the ear monitoring) and with no reverb in the IEM. There is a huge experimental error being introduced - Practice. I haven't really practiced my vocals as I would guitar so, by running all these tests, I'm probably seeing a dramatic improvement in my vocal technique (moving up from truly awful to just bad). I’ve also go to replicate these conditions in a live situation (at the moment there’s no ambient noise and I’m using just a piano as a reference pitch).
I should point out that the singer has tried IEMs once, we’ve not spent much time on optimising his mix, and yet the improvements have been dramatic. I convinced the IEMs are the way to go but it does require you to take getting the mix right seriously.
I think that we're actually on the same page. I can EQ my aux mix to be different to the FOH mix. I can't EQ just my vocals differently in the aux mix i.e. there isn't a separate channel strip EQ for each aux bus.
I think the reverb I could get by sending to the FX bus pre fader and EQ?
For the actual in-ears, I use a set of Mee Audio M6 Pros which are dirt cheap - and sound fine. I went to in-ears because I looked at the cost of the P1, TC cable and in-ears - and it was actually less than a powered wedge.
I only really do pub gigs so it's probably overkill. but then again I take a fucking enormous pedalboard and run 2 amps in a wet/dry rig for a pub gig so overkill is par for the course!!
I've got an XR18 and I just map the vocal input to two separate channels, one for FOH and one for the IEM aux mix. That way I can EQ the FOH and IEM vocal separately.