Old Horse Murphy Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 (edited) Here's a funny one... I'm not sure anyone on this Forum will suffer with EXACTLY the same problem, but there might be a few people who have similar issues. I have badly cauliflowered ears and one of their side effects is it makes sounds come from different directions than if they were coming through a normal shaped ear. As a result I often struggle to hear myself through my amp when we're on stage and it is behind me. As I don't normally play through a PA, I don't use any form of Monitor. I play through a Markbass Little Mark head in to a Schroeder 21012L cabinet, which has an angled speaker (this helps a lot). Other than possibly putting a wedge under the Cab to angle it further upwards, does anyone have any suggestions? Is it possible to run a monitor directly off my amp through the Line Out? If so, what sort of monitor should I use? The handbook says that the maximum output is balanced xlr with a max. voltage of 10vpp. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what this means (I was the most attentive student as I much preferred the rugby pitch to lessons- hence the ear problem ) Any help/suggestions/sarcastic comments are most welcome. Edited February 11, 2008 by Old Horse Murphy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crez5150 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 [quote name='Old Horse Murphy' post='138328' date='Feb 11 2008, 05:23 PM']Here's a funny one... I'm not sure anyone on this Forum will suffer with EXACTLY the same problem, but there might be a few people who have similar issues. I have badly cauliflowered ears and one of their side effects is it makes sounds come from different directions than if they were coming through a normal shaped ear. As a result I often struggle to hear myself through my amp when we're on stage and it is behind me. As I don't normally play through a PA, I don't use any form of Monitor. I play through a Markbass Little Mark head in to a Schroeder 21012L cabinet, which has an angled speaker (this helps a lot). Other than possibly putting a wedge under the Cab to angle it further upwards, does anyone have any suggestions? Is it possible to run a monitor directly off my amp through the Line Out? If so, what sort of monitor should I use? The handbook says that the maximum output is balanced xlr with a max. voltage of 10vpp. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what this means (I was the most attentive student as I much preferred the rugby pitch to lessons- hence the ear problem ) Any help/suggestions/sarcastic comments are most welcome.[/quote] I use a wedge monitor run out of the ext. speaker output..... then have this sitting next to my main vocal monitor on stage..... this works very well!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Horse Murphy Posted February 11, 2008 Author Share Posted February 11, 2008 (edited) [quote name='crez5150' post='138332' date='Feb 11 2008, 05:27 PM']I use a wedge monitor run out of the ext. speaker output..... then have this sitting next to my main vocal monitor on stage..... this works very well!![/quote] That's what I was thinking of doing- good idea. From the technical info I've given about my amp, would you have any clue as to what sort of wedge I should look at? Cheers!! OHM Edited February 11, 2008 by Old Horse Murphy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crez5150 Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 |I'm not familiar with your rig but it sounds like your taking the output from the Line out.... which is basically a line level output in which case you would need a powered wedge. Check to see what Impedance your head puts out and what the impedance of your cab is..... if your running at 8 or 4 ohm then you can add an a monitor into the chain..... My advice though would be to purchase a decent make with enough headroom, output and sensitivity. For you info I'm using JBL SRX712M's for monitors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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