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Drum screens and in ear monitoring
Started by Steve Knott on 13 October 2008 - 8:57am
| 13 October 2008 - 8:57am | |
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Hey guys! We're on the verge of getting a drum screen - the drum sound at the moment is really messy as we have a massive old (150 years - gothic stylie) C of E church. The HF frequencies from the drums bounce around and sound rubbish, so to tame the volume level (so we can mic it up and make it sound nice Front of House!) and to combat the reflections we're going for a drum screen. We're going to need the standard front, and an absorbent rear, plus because it is in the side aisle we'll need a roof as ours is low and titlted. So...I've foudn the link below which I think will be cool! http://www.clearsonic.com/IsoPacB.htm Does anyone have expericence of using screens - how have they found them? We also won't stick a wedge in there with the drummer -any suggestions on how to do in ear well? We could go wireless but does anyone know of any wired solutions which are designed specifically for this purpose? (Short of using a behringer headphone amp and compressor to limit...but this isn't as foolproof as a custom monitoring solution - I really don't want to fry any drummer's ears!) Any advice/experiences to share on in ear monitoring and/or drum screens? |
Hey Steve,
Clear Sonic are really good - we use them at St Paul's, they are really heavy though. If you get one make sure you get one that can hold adaptors to put a roof on top as well if you ever want to go down that road.
We put our drummers on a HeadTap - http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/search/index/?k... and then a decent pair of headphones - works really well as drummers don't need a body pack. All of our drummers hit the drums differently; 1 girl plays quite softly so the trick is to not put any drums in her monitor (unless she asks) then she hits louder & visa versa.
I'm not drum expert - but hope that helps
if your looking for hardwired shure makes some products that are designed to do that. i believe they are in the psm400 line. might want to try that. it has stereo inputs so that you can get a good mix. it also has the limiter which in my opinion you need with IEM. any feedback occurs and without a limiter you will have some good ole ringing in those ears. if it was my setup thats what i would do and actually prolly going to end up doing for our church here soon as it is.