in ear monitors

[Badger]

Having forsaken my oath to never ever play in another band again, and since it looks like my newly purloined band is actually starting to sound good and we may play out, I have bene thinking about trying the ear monitor route.

First I looked at the Nady system. Hey, I'm a cheapskate and these things are cheap. Then I started hearing that they sucked and were not worth a shit unless you spent extra money on earphones.

Ok, I'll put that on the back burner.

Then I saw that both shure and samson had a wired monitor system, with a little box that had a cable instead of an antennae. Sounds cool to me, especialy since I play keys and dont move around, why screw with wireless. One more thing to have problems with.

That got me to thinking, why do i need to spend a couple of hundred for what is esentially a headphone amp, with a belt clip.

And then I found this:
http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAM.../PR/PM350.html



It looks cool. It has a mic in and out XLR, an unbalanced qtr inch in to XLR out(essentially a direct box) and a stereo or mono in from the monitor send from the board. And volume controls for each signal to the headphone jack.

so if I get one of these, I can run my mic and my keybord in, mix them for the headphone with the monitor send so I can hear the rest of the band, and be able to control my own monitor mix as I like. NO more soundguy killing my keys in the monitor during a song(soundmen must hate me for some reason).

Best of all the thing is like 70 bucks brand new. I can get it, and a decent pair of earphones for right at 200 bucks.

For earphones I am thinking of going with the etymotic ER-6. anybody out there use these? or the ROlls PM350?

Anybody have any thoughts/opinions on the setup in comparrison with the shure or samson wired setup?

[Light]

There was a thread on in-ears a while back, in which I talked about some of the pros and cons. If you don't have a regular monitor engineer, I would suggest against it.

Here is the thread:
http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthr...n+Ear+Monitors

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[Badger]

With this setup I can control my own levels. I would rather do that then trust someone else to do it.