In ear Monitors?

[juineaux]

I have been praticing at home through a mixer and a big set of headphones and I love it. I want to buy in-ear monitors because I can never hear myself with regular floor monitors at a gig, but in-ear monitors are riduclously expensive(cheapest I could find was $600 and it wasnt even wireless). So my question is:

Can I just use regular headphones on stage(the little ones that you use when you jog)? Because they are alot cheaper, but i didnt know if they would feedback like crazy or something-

[Pickles]

the bass player of my church uses the big headphones.. dont know if theyre regular. in ear monitors are awesome for bands if theyre EQed right. they screwed me up the first time i used em.

[Brock]

Can I just use regular headphones on stage(the little ones that you use when you jog)? Because they are alot cheaper, but i didnt know if they would feedback like crazy or something-

No, they shouldn't give you feedback at all. The tough part would be getting it to sound good. What's your normal setup at a gig?

[juineaux]

Thanks for the help guys-
My normal setup at a gig(or at least the main place I play) is me standing with two floor monitors pointed up at me, and a soundguy about 15 feet to the right of me running everything. Those monitors should probably be powerful enough, but I cant hear my voice clear enough with all of the back round noise of the place. I figured using earphones would help isolate my voice better. I dunno, im gonna try it at an open mic before I try it at a full show-

[grock]

Thanks for the help guys-
My normal setup at a gig(or at least the main place I play) is me standing with two floor monitors pointed up at me, and a soundguy about 15 feet to the right of me running everything. Those monitors should probably be powerful enough, but I cant hear my voice clear enough with all of the back round noise of the place. I figured using earphones would help isolate my voice better. I dunno, im gonna try it at an open mic before I try it at a full show-

what you need is a new sound guy that can EQ and mix you right. you should be able to hear yourself just fine. ask him to turn up the vocals. like how rappers always do a mic check. that's weird that he can't get your monitor mix right.

[juineaux]

Hes not really a sound guy by profession he just does it for this place only. I can hear myself, but my guitar is always too loud, and I dont really need to hear that as much. I try not too piss him off because he also owns the place-

[dmb_tatertot]

Check this out and see if this is affordable for ya:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... gory=23786

Wired but still not a bad deal.

[grock]

Hes not really a sound guy by profession he just does it for this place only. I can hear myself, but my guitar is always too loud, and I dont really need to hear that as much. I try not too piss him off because he also owns the place-

then just ask him to lower the guitar and raise the vocals. claim it sounds "different" he normally has it or you replaced the battery in your guitar and it sounds louder if you want an excuse.