2elliot Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 The band I play for got a bit caught out last night when the venue we played at could not get the stage monitor to work. We use a drum machine through the PA so the gig became a bit of a challange. We are not interested in getting a drummer so have decided to cough up for a monitor; drums mainly with a bit of vocal. We have no idea about this stuff so I'm looking for a bit of direction, we'll probably go second hand £100 ish. Any pointers would be very much appreciated. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truckstop Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Somebody on here's selling a JBL EON speaker. Would be ideal! Can't remember how much, I think it's about £150 or so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzodog Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Active peavey eurosys1 monitors are quite common on ebay for 20 quid upwards depending on condition. Very loud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Fitzmaurice Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 If you're going to do monitors right everyone needs one. I'd get a bass amp w/tweeter to use as a backline amp for the drum machine when needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Starr Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 You are going to struggle to get active monitors for £100 outside of Peavey, Laney and Carlsboro. A lot of the cheap Chinese unbranded stuff will struggle with handling a decent kick drum sound. If you already have a spare PA amp then look out for a set of Yamaha club series monitors which are cheap, reliable, loud and sound pretty good. I'm with Bill in wanting to separate the vocal monitor from the drum monitor. If the drums need to be loud enough for the whole band to hear on stage then your vocalist is going to struggle to hear themselves through the same speaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2elliot Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Cheers guys. Thanks for the input, it's certainly given me more to think about. What's an 'active' monitor? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truckstop Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 An active monitor (or PA speaker for that matter) is a speaker with its own amplifier built in. It is self-powered. So it's a box with a speaker AND an amp in it. You can plug a microphone or the signal from the mixer straight into it. A passive monitor would simply be a speaker in a box. You would need to run a separate out-board power amp with which you would need to power it from. You would need to plug the signal from the mixer into the power amp, and from there into the monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2elliot Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Cheers Truckstop. Active is it then or some sort of wedge bass combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truckstop Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 To be honest, anything that won't distort will do. I remember seeing a blues band use an old Peavey keyboard combo that they bought for £30 as a monitor for vocals and saxophone. Essentially that combo is an 'active monitor'. Just took a line from the aux-out of the mixer straight into the instrument input in the combo. Simples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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