How to set up In Ear Monitoring for under $110! A detailed guide 

Aaron Fisher Ivo

same here i did not understand.

same here i did not understand.

Yeah, there's not much to do about that, it's just a bit of a rite of passage. What are you confused with? I'd love to help out!

English is my native language and I lost track of what he was saying. I think visual examples could have helped.

Wow! A year later and I now understand and can't figure out why it was so hard before. Multiple connections and connection types, cables, ins and outs can be real confusing real fast if you haven't got much experience with this stuff. That said, I REALLY don't want to be tethered to anything. I know how that is going to end already . . . Not Well! Lol.

True. I used to hate them. Now, my digital system is all Behringer. It's seriously amazing stuff.

we use a lot of behringer stuff at my church for our wired iem system. great stuff, never had a problem

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second that. MEE M6 Pro is a good choice.

Nelson Lara i have the same problem, did you find a tutorial???

How far did you get? I've set this up in my church as well as doing professional sound engineering for a number of years so might be able to help you

Squishington hi can you make a step by step tutorial on how to set up this rolls to a mixer

Hi Joseph, Each desk is slightly different but you need to connect one of the bus sends (aux outputs) to the Rolls. The input on the Rolls is the monitor input socket, you'll need a 1/4" TRS jack plug on the end of the cable going in here (stereo jack), If your desk has xlr output then the other end needs to be XLR, if it is jack out then you'll need to check with the owners handbook on what type of connection that is, it is likely it will also be TRS but I couldn't say for sure without seeing the handbook myself. To get the audio into the rolls each channel will have a corresponding dial if an analog desk for that aux output or it might be on the channel setup page if it is a digital desk. I tend to throw 15% of each instrument or vocal wanted and go from here, you can always turn one up more if you want more of a specific person/instrument. Better to send the signal through low to start with and increase the volume than to blow your eardrums out on the first note.

Generally yes they are the same principle but it depends on the interface as some digital desks use a stage box over a network cable rather than connections on the back of the desk which then get sent over a loom/snake. You plug the headphone amp/IEM into one of the aux send (Bus) channels out of the desk or stage box and then on each of the channels set how much of each channel goes into that mix.

Same question sir

miguel ortiz No, you are limited first by the how many bus sends your board has.

Thanks Manuel! I haven't played the GC MMV before, so I can't really comment on it. I'd play them both and pick the one that sounds & feels the best to you.

Unless the bluetooth is really good, there will be noticeable latency and that is something that you don't want in live performances...

jose echeverria Please get the Behringer X32 mixer

Tito V thanks everyone is recommending this

Tony Lancer the pre amps in behringer mixers are average, at best. Also, the potentiometers ("pots") in my Behringer 5 channel utility mixer are super noisy too. Noise started only 6 months after purchase. Avoid Behringer equipment if you care about quailty.

our church uses a full size behringer x32 and it is amazing as a mixing board and can do some pretty cool things with it.

+Tony Lancer Yes, it is true. Behringer has been considered since the beginning, entry level equipment. They have improved a bit over the years, but they still make shitty stuff because they use cheap components so they can pass the savings on to their customers. It truly is a case of you get what you pay for.

Idk behringer is sort of known for having faulty equipment, though my bands sound guy has a high end board made by behringer that sounds/looks amazing

It's important to note some things about Behringer. Yes, old products and some new are reverse engineered copies (using cheaper components) of other well known products. HOWEVER, it should be noted that as behringer has grown, they have purchased other companies, and now have a pretty impressive array of products using their own entities. Behringer purchased MIDAS a few years back, which are known as makers of quality mixing gear. They have incorporated MIDAS preamps and tech in newer mixing products (like the X series digital mixers). Also, more recently Behringer purchased TC Electronic, who are well regarded in the studio effects and guitar effects world. Safe to say that while past products and methods might be suspect, Behringer as a parent company has a great team of engineers across their brands which spills over into their behringer branded products these days.

Hey Logan, you'd have to connect one of the Aux Send (bus) channels to the snake at the desk end (they might already all be plugged in, depends on your individual set up) but you do need a spare send channel not currently being used for front of house speakers or monitors unless you're going to have exactly the same mix balance. You then connect your headphone amp to the same return channel at the wall plate.

Check to see if your headphone amp has a mono and stereo option may need to change the mode you are in

No - the guy missed the point of why you would use a "stereo" lead. The aux (e.g bus out) sends are mono, but you send it down a balanced cable e.g. a TRS balanced cable. This means you can run longer lengths of cable without signal loss. A balanced mono cable requires three cables inside - like your standard xlr mic cable. Same theory, different connectors, thats all. An unbalanced stereo connection requires three cables - but you will lose signal over longer lengths. To do stereo properly, run two of the mono balanced TRS cables (or a two core loom) to a stereo headphone amp. This will require the use of two auxes from your desk.

+Russ Hollinshead thank you so much, you didn't have to do this so I appreciate it, I'll mess with it trying your suggestion = ) Much love.

Hey Russ, interesting point you have there. I have a question. If there is no panning on any of the other channels, it would be futile to send two mono sends, because they would sound the same, correct? If so, is it possible to recreate a studio like mix (panning essentially and stereo)? Does this need a highly sophisticated sound board?

Tony Lancer it's generally more common place to do stereo aux mixes on a digital desk as the software generally allows you to pair two auxes and give you a pan across those two aux sends. You can still do it with an analogue desk but it's less user friendly. For example, if aux 1 is left and aux 2 is right, to have something like vocals to be in the centre of the mix, you have an equal amount of send from the channel to aux 1 and 2. If you wanted a bias of the vocals in the left channel, you'd send more on the aux 1 compared to the aux 2. Hope this makes sense.

Niklas E can u demonstrate in detail or may be in live??? I want to understand it more

Click on the 1st link, it has everything itemized on their website.

Looking at the picture on the video l guest it is.

I missed spelled that but you get the drift

They're decent! not a "High Quality" tho

The Rolls box takes input in stereo using a balanced TRS input

Because this is Worship Tutorials channel? :D

+José Ignacio Echeverría make sure the level you're sending to the headphone amp is t clipping it. This would be different than the gain structure of each individual channel - the overall level. You might try turning down every channel (the level of each to the bus mix). I haven't used the behringer in a while, but it should allow you to monitor the input level of the signal you're sending it. If it clips, it's going to sound bad.

I'll check that out next sunday for sure. As we are already on topic. What would you recommend as a budget mixing board? And thanks for your quick response! You are great!

The Behringer X32 and the PreSonus StudioLive boards are very good - especially for the money. I've personally used the X32 almost every weekend for years now and it is an incredible value.

what's your current setup and what are you trying to accomplish exactly?

Hey Oliver - just use the method I've highlighted here, and only put the click in your in-ear mix. Mute it in the main mix and you'll be set.

Cheers brian for your help but how do you mute in the main mix and still get it in your ears? if its coming from the board? will there bus be only for me? and is there a way that you send an input on a desk to a mix like setting the output i guess of the clicktrack on the board to bus...

Yes the aux or bus mix that goes to your in-ears is completely separate from the main mix. Every board handles it a little differently, so my advice would be to read the manual for the board you're using and learn how to set it up.

Hey Oliver, does your church already have some sort of monitoring system? Or would you be adding on top of something like he's described here?

Well at church im not to sure, i know its a 6 channel interface so im not really worried to much about it at church as tend to play guitar at church it was more for when i play at venues with my band

rune bailey Why would you need the headphone amp then? Just plug the wireless transmitters right into the bus sends

Cos I don’t have many sends on my mixer

The headphone amp only takes the amount of sends your board has and turns them into headphone level outputs. The amp does not increase your amount of sends. You would need something like an XLR splitter. So it would go, Out your mixers send> XLR splitter> headphone amp.

@@JosephBarnard31 I have it so there is a signal coming out of the mixer into the main input of the headphone amp then everybody plugs into a channel of the headphone amp and has a feed from that.

@@JosephBarnard31 we do not have individual mixes all the same mix