The In-Ear Monitor Mix Fix for Drummers
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Let's fix your mix in your In Ear Monitors! Tips and helpful suggestions to get the best results from your sound checks and monitor mixing on stage or in the studio.
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You do need overhead in your mix but Be careful with the overhead volume being too loud. If you’re playing to loops/tracks or stems the sound of the cymbals could make you lose the loop/track
That’s true. You’ll need to make sure you dial in a good mix with the sound engineer or if you’re running your own mix, just give yourself enough signal so that you can hear the top end of the kit (cymbals and high frequency). Thanks for watching!
One way to help from hitting cymbals too loud/hard is to crank your OH mics. Good for smaller rooms. I personally like to bring up the OH and then kick, snare and toms to balance and thicken up sound.
9:48 venues not using overheads makes accidentally playing the cymbals louder even cringier, as they don't have them going through FOH for a reason. I always set up at least one overhead mic, which I dial up higher and change the relative kit balance for quieter venues or songs. That said, it's been only one step in trying to figure out my mess of an IEM system. I started using stereo monitoring at my home studio years ago, so switching to mono for live has been quite the difficult transition.
After having a stereo mix, mono is just no fun!
I'm only running 2 Ambient condenser mics and my sample pad into my ears. ! is placed between the hihat, snare and rack tome. The other one is placed near the floor toms. This gives me a decent balance, so i can still hear tone, kick snare and some cymbals. The drums are the loudest things on the stage so you should be able to feel them.
That's an interesting mic configuration! I've done something similar in the past but I would always want to have a dedicated KICK mic.