bonzodog Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 I recently tried IEMs for our small 3 piece and although we only put vocals and a bit of guitar through PA it's worked wonders for me. I just have one ear bud in and as me and guitarist harmonise on most songs it's really improved my vocals. I'm using an LD systems wireless. However he doesn't want to try IEMs so he now has the single monitor we have at the front pointing soley at him. The problem is wiring it all up. We only have one monitor output on our Mackie DFx12 desk so am running that to the active monitor (Alto TS212) and then out of that back to the mono input on the back of the IEM unit. This is a pain as the unit is racked in with the mixer so have a lead going one way to monitor then another coming back same way. The other option would be to go from mixer to IEM then out of the IEM headphone socket to monitor but this would need to be a jack lead? Or I could just use the monitor output on desk to the monitor. Then use the headphone out on the mixer to go to the IEM. However doing it through the mixer headphone output means I can't turn the guitar level down. Not sure if there is a better way of doing it like using a splitter cable to send two signals out of the monitor output of the mixer? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete.young Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 26 minutes ago, bonzodog said: Not sure if there is a better way of doing it like using a splitter cable to send two signals out of the monitor output of the mixer? That should work - a jack plug on the mixer end, a jack and a trailing socket on other end. Plug the jack into the IEM unit (you can leave this permanently rigged up) and plug the monitor jack-jack cable into the trailing socket. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 58 minutes ago, bonzodog said: I just have one ear bud in Don't do this - you over compensate for your open ear and the volume coming into your ear from the IEM will be dangerously loud and you risk permanent damage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonzodog Posted June 10, 2018 Author Share Posted June 10, 2018 19 minutes ago, EBS_freak said: Don't do this - you over compensate for your open ear and the volume coming into your ear from the IEM will be dangerously loud and you risk permanent damage. Thanks. That's an interesting point and I did read into this previously. As we play relatively low volume and I only have a trickle of output in my ear I didn't think it would be an issue. I did try putting both buds in and could still hear everything else so will try that next gig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Splitter cable was my first thought... Actually change your desk was my first thought, but I assume you're not that commited to an IEM setup yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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