A really different and fascinating video Leigh. Unfortunately I’m just a living room guitarist (too old to gig) so not so relevant to me. But why do you need a click track when you have a drummer? Can you not hear him clearly?
Hey Clive, Thanks for watching the video and that's a great question. The click is there for a few reasons. In a lot of these corporate or function gigs, we play to some tracks which contain additional instruments that aren't on stage (Synths, keys, strings, some extra vocals etc). The click allows us to keep in time with the track. Some tracks I start on my own, so the click acts as my timing reference before the band comes in Also, when wearing my moulded in ears, they really, REALLY reduce any noise. They block most ambient noise out, so if I'm playing with a quiet drummer on a kit that isn't mic'd up, I can't hear anything. The click then gives me that guide. Even on a gig with a loud drummer, the click is still useful for me to have. A lot of people probably don't like having the click in their ears, but it's just something I'm very used to hearing. We don't always have time/space to mic up the drums so it serves as a useful go between for me. The drummer in the clips is a loud drummer, so I can hear him when my in ears in, but with a quieter drummer it's really hard to hear them in the room.
Hi, thank you for the wonderful review. I bought the same system. I’m having problems with too much background noise, especially playing the low strings. Do you have any tips? Thank you!
Hey Francesco, Thanks for checking it out, glad you liked it. That's strange to hear you're having noise issues. Are you getting them all the time? What are you using to send a signal back to your in ear monitors? Have you tried changing frequency?
Did you get any dropouts? Did you use the 3 band EQ much? I've had the cheap Anleon S2 for a few years now, but we've started taking a Behringer XR to some of our gigs, and by the time you're done high passing the guitars and vocals, the sound that comes to my in ears is SUUUPPERR harsh. It also drops out for a few seconds intermittently
Hey, thanks for the comment. No, I don't get any dropout with these IEMs, they've been very, very consistent night after night. In the 6 months I've had them I've probably done over 50-60 gigs with them. Last week I did a run of Theatre shows where there were 30 other people all on IEMs on stage and I still didn't get any issues. The only time I had an issue was one venue I played had an internal wireless mic that was eating up a lot of the frequencies, but all I had to do was to change the channel I was transmitting on. Hope that helps!
@@LeighFugeGuitar Thanks! I may have to pull the trigger on this soon. I wanted to just bite the bullet and get a Shure PSM300 but it's been out of stock across the country for ages, and not due back till at least March next year from the looks of it. I only see the LD Systems IEM on Thomann. Meant to be touring from February onwards, depending on what Boris says about lockdown :S
Hey, I don't believe you can... I think you can only pair one transmitter with one receiver. You could in theory send 2 mono mixes to the unit panned hard L and R if you run the unit in stereo, but the issue would be the second body pack wouldn't connect. Even if you had 2 body packs and paired them both to the same frequency, you'd still get the same mix (Assuming the two body packs wouldn't interfere with each other...)
Cool bro
I love my IEMs! Find it so strange gigging without them now!
A really different and fascinating video Leigh. Unfortunately I’m just a living room guitarist (too old to gig) so not so relevant to me. But why do you need a click track when you have a drummer? Can you not hear him clearly?
Hey Clive,
Thanks for watching the video and that's a great question. The click is there for a few reasons.
In a lot of these corporate or function gigs, we play to some tracks which contain additional instruments that aren't on stage (Synths, keys, strings, some extra vocals etc). The click allows us to keep in time with the track.
Some tracks I start on my own, so the click acts as my timing reference before the band comes in
Also, when wearing my moulded in ears, they really, REALLY reduce any noise. They block most ambient noise out, so if I'm playing with a quiet drummer on a kit that isn't mic'd up, I can't hear anything. The click then gives me that guide. Even on a gig with a loud drummer, the click is still useful for me to have. A lot of people probably don't like having the click in their ears, but it's just something I'm very used to hearing.
We don't always have time/space to mic up the drums so it serves as a useful go between for me.
The drummer in the clips is a loud drummer, so I can hear him when my in ears in, but with a quieter drummer it's really hard to hear them in the room.
@@LeighFugeGuitar thanks so much for your great answer
Hi, thank you for the wonderful review. I bought the same system. I’m having problems with too much background noise, especially playing the low strings. Do you have any tips? Thank you!
Hey Francesco,
Thanks for checking it out, glad you liked it. That's strange to hear you're having noise issues. Are you getting them all the time? What are you using to send a signal back to your in ear monitors? Have you tried changing frequency?
Did you get any dropouts? Did you use the 3 band EQ much? I've had the cheap Anleon S2 for a few years now, but we've started taking a Behringer XR to some of our gigs, and by the time you're done high passing the guitars and vocals, the sound that comes to my in ears is SUUUPPERR harsh. It also drops out for a few seconds intermittently
Hey, thanks for the comment. No, I don't get any dropout with these IEMs, they've been very, very consistent night after night. In the 6 months I've had them I've probably done over 50-60 gigs with them. Last week I did a run of Theatre shows where there were 30 other people all on IEMs on stage and I still didn't get any issues.
The only time I had an issue was one venue I played had an internal wireless mic that was eating up a lot of the frequencies, but all I had to do was to change the channel I was transmitting on.
Hope that helps!
@@LeighFugeGuitar Thanks! I may have to pull the trigger on this soon. I wanted to just bite the bullet and get a Shure PSM300 but it's been out of stock across the country for ages, and not due back till at least March next year from the looks of it. I only see the LD Systems IEM on Thomann.
Meant to be touring from February onwards, depending on what Boris says about lockdown :S
Hi mate, do you know if you could send 2 separate personal mono mixes to 2 body packs using one transmitter?
Hey, I don't believe you can... I think you can only pair one transmitter with one receiver. You could in theory send 2 mono mixes to the unit panned hard L and R if you run the unit in stereo, but the issue would be the second body pack wouldn't connect.
Even if you had 2 body packs and paired them both to the same frequency, you'd still get the same mix (Assuming the two body packs wouldn't interfere with each other...)