MartinCliffe
Well-Known Member
Just curious what you guys prefer for monitoring when you're playing live? I've used big wedge monitors (pain to transport, don't look good at the front of the stage, but a useful place to put your foot during a solo), in ear monitors (easy to transport but kinda isolating and you're reliant on the guy on the desk not being a muppet) and I've most recently moved to little personal vocal monitors (small, discrete, rugged and they sound great, but very directional and not a huge amount of bass response). I sold my wedges to our local church, where they're used every week, and they're fine there... I'm now thinking of selling my IEM setup too as I just don't use it anymore - I gave up on them when playing with the metal band I was with for the last 2 years.
The TC Helicon VoiceSolo units I'm using now are the best option I've tried so far. They're small enough to fit on my pedalboard, very lightweight and pretty damn loud, plus I get stereo monitoring with my own mix controls (a "more me" control for my vocal mic). I just picked up a 3rd one for my keyboard player, and will probably get another when my IEMs sell, for our bassist. I just wanted to garner some opinion from the rest of you out there about what you use / prefer and why?
The TC Helicon VoiceSolo units I'm using now are the best option I've tried so far. They're small enough to fit on my pedalboard, very lightweight and pretty damn loud, plus I get stereo monitoring with my own mix controls (a "more me" control for my vocal mic). I just picked up a 3rd one for my keyboard player, and will probably get another when my IEMs sell, for our bassist. I just wanted to garner some opinion from the rest of you out there about what you use / prefer and why?