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Originally posted by Elspode
At last, someone I can actually ask this question of:
Are in-ear monitors simply fucking wonderful, or merely terrific? It certainly seems that the quality of live performances has gone up a whole order of magnitude since they first hit the market.
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they hit the market about the same time that labels started putting "stunt" bands on the road to play to pre-recorded tapes.
They're very hip, but they take a lot of getting used to. Sound guys love them - it dramatically decreases the stage volume, which gives them a lot more control over how they mix the house sound. It's also essential if you are using any kind of loops or triggers - the band has to have a click track in their ear so that the loops are in time, but you don't want the sound of the click coming through stage speakers.
I WILL NOT use them unless I personally know and have worked with the monitor engineer, however. If he's not johnny-on-the-nut, then it's impossible to do your job as a player.
-sm