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Topic: Problem with hearing myself play acoustic |
Bob Doran
From:
Ames, Iowa, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2005 5:48 am |
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instruments.
My band has 8 memebers we are limited in the number of entries into our mixer (I think it is about 12).
At any rate the only way I can play an acoustic instrument, is to play direct into a microphone.
I am told it sounds fine, but I can't hear a single note I am playing.
Is there any way for me to hear myself play?
Thanks
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2005 5:55 am
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| If someone tells you "it sounds fine", you need to hear what they are hearing. You need a monitor speaker located where you can hear it. |
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Bob Doran
From:
Ames, Iowa, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2005 6:38 am
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The speaker just hooks up to the mike, right?
Do microphones have an outlet that you can just plug into your ear?
(actually everyone says it sounds great- I am pretty confident on the banjo)
But it isn't much fun playing when you can't hear yourself.
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Doyle Mitchell
From:
Loraine, Texas
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Posted 13 Feb 2005 8:07 am
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| NO Bob, the monitor must come from the monitor system, and you guys may not even be using a monitor system, talk to who ever is running the PA for you guys. What you probably need is a personal ear monitor if you are having hearing problems, you can purchase one through musicians friend, it fits in your ear like a small hearing aid and depending on how your PA is set up you can bring in yourself only or any other instrument or singer into your ear to a volume you can hear, but before you spend money on it be sure to talk to whoever runs the PA and see if you are using a monitor system. If not , simply adding monitors for the band to hear would be the simple answer. |
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Doyle Mitchell
From:
Loraine, Texas
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Posted 13 Feb 2005 8:17 am
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| Bob, even if you are not using monitors, you can still use a personal ear monitor by coming out the "monitor out" into the receiver for personal ear monitor and use the volume control for monitor on the board for each instrument you want to hear in your ear. But be sure all the monitor volumes are off the board before placing the ear piece in your ear and then adjust the volume accordingly for eah thing you want to hear. Good luck. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 13 Feb 2005 8:45 am
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uhhh...what acoustic instrument are you playing? A toy ukelele, maybe? (I've never had a problem hearing a banjo.) If you play acoustic anything in a band, and can't hear anything you're doing, then the problem isn't that you're not loud enough...
It's that everyone else is too loud.
Do you, perchance, have the drums miked? Or the bass guitar? If so, that's probably the start of your problem.  |
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John Daugherty
From:
Rolla, Missouri, USA
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Posted 13 Feb 2005 9:16 am
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Donny, you have the right idea, but if these guys are playing that loud,do you think they are going to listen to a side man? I never could get that lucky. On second thought.... one time ..... when the band leader/bassplayers eardrum burst and blood squirted out of his ear.
If they won't turn it down, you will have to use a monitor. |
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