Understanding WEDGES. Learn HOW to use them and WHY. 

There needs to be a version of this for musicians and singers.

I always go and listen to each wedge while the band is playing, so I can understand what they are hearing in that exact spot on stage. Some people find it a bit creepy when I all of a sudden turn up next to them while they're playing, but they soon understand when I explain it to them.

7:04 "... what can I give them less of to have the same net effect?" Love it, brilliant.

All they said is totally true. I always ask musicians what you don’t hear on stage (guitar, other vocals, bass, keys,...) and i get much lower volume of sound on stage.

Pick the 3 main things you need in the wedge and go with that. Live monitoring is so you can play better, it's not a CD mix.

This is absolutely astonishing n amazing to see that there are real people who know what they’re talking about when it comes to this kind of stuff

I love these videos and the knowledge you guys are giving out! Thanks and keep it up!

I do not like to put hihats on the vocal wedge because the hihat mics tend to pick up the entire drum kit and all of the other wedges thereby causing feedback and the vocal wedge having more than needed. but i guess there is a way to fix that

Nice one, thanks for sharing!

Bruh and i battle with the singers at my church with this😂😂

You guys are the best

I always mix FOH first, from that room sound stage performers already get SOME of what they need to hear, then I add whatever LITTLE they need to hear more of and that's it.

With in-ears you're isolated with sound which came out from it. To make in-ear sound really comfortable you need a separate sound engineer with second mixer or Tablet connected to the main mixer. You need additional mics in hall to pic up audience sound and add it to in-ear mix to not feel weirdly isolated. If some of the instruments became louder (some of guitar pedals had more gain, different sound presets volumes on keyboards or midi sources, someone changed volume knob on amp, etc.) - with in-ears you're much more sensitive and unanticipated surprises will be much more painful to ears than from floor wedge. You don't need all mix in wedge and can hear real sound of audience. You can get more detailed sound with in-ears but with much more efforts and dedicated engineer for that on the one side. Or you can have more stable and predictable sound with much less efforts with wedges on the other side. I was very pleased with my vocal tiniest details control with in-ears but it's hard to have great and balanced sound of everything else. And I went back to wedges. Important thing to make stage sound comfortable - add stage side fill speakers. Send mix from PA there and make its volume a bit lower than wedge in front of you. I have only my vocal in my wedge and little bit of keyboards to be in pitch. And I hear all the mix from side fills which made overall experience much more comfortable. It's not such super-detailed sound of my voice that I can hear subtle breath details from my vocal mic, but I hear my vocal very well and as a huge advantage I hear all the band and audience live and feel all overall sound much better and receive much more energy and connection with band and audience.

I try to explain this to musicians all the time when I do sound for them. They start wanting to add things and then they start turning UP their amps and combat the wedges instead of letting them have what they need only. Because when they want too many things in the wedge, it just makes it harder for them to distinguish what they need to hear. If a band wants a FULL PA mix, set up some side fills with PA tops from your main FOH mix. That's the best way to give them that FOH mix without trying to make that mix in their monitors.

God bless you guys. Wow good

Wedges are 90% vocal (of that mix) and 60% other vocals...and their instrument... I only put a kit in there if the pa has already been on, or mention that we should wait till the pa is on... often they don’t need it anymore...

RIP. Andrew Stone

Why use a wedge over in ear?