The IEM (in ear monitors) Bible thread - a guide to help every musician

[Woodinblack]

Tonight at practice my IEM cut out breifly a couple of times, so I was a bit concerned after saying how reliable it has been (and it has). Then it occured to me that the receiver was clipped to the top of my right pocket, and my XVive wireless bass transmitter was right next to it because of that. I swapped it to my left pocket and it didn't cut out again. So it seems it doesn't like touching another transmitter!

[EBS_freak]

13 hours ago, Al Krow said:

 

Smooth-hound wireless, when it was market leader,

 

Umm… no.

[Al Krow]

24 minutes ago, EBS_freak said:

 

Umm… no.

 

Yeah, clarification required i.e. in the budget compact format end of the market that the Xvive U4 etc being discussed have muscled into. It was certainly one of the more popular wireless devices on BC a few years back. Seems to have faded from view these days. 

[javi_bassist]

11 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

Ordered these bad lads on Sunday. Winged their way over the Atlantic from Canada in four days. What a time to be alive!

 

Plunge Audio Dynamics. They'll get a run out next weekend...

 

 

Let us know what you think of them once they arrived!

[javi_bassist]

11 hours ago, wateroftyne said:

Ordered these bad lads on Sunday. Winged their way over the Atlantic from Canada in four days. What a time to be alive!

 

Plunge Audio Dynamics. They'll get a run out next weekend...

 

 

Let us know what you think of them once they arrived!

[Happy Jack]

I've used ACS Custom moulded plugs for so long that I've ended up with a couple of pairs of moulds that are surplus to requirement, one pair not even having filters any more.

 

Stumbled across a Basschat post from a few years ago (which I now can't find again to link to) where someone in this situation had bought some cheap earbuds and glued them into ACS moulds.

 

So I thought "what the heck" and bought pair of £20 buds from Amazon plus some special silicon-friendly glue. @Silvia Bluejay and I then spent a happy half-hour gluing our fingers together, and left the resulting Blue Peter mess to cure overnight.

 

Tried them at rehearsal (on keys) last night and - knock me down with a feather - it worked. 

[Kev]

4 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

I've used ACS Custom moulded plugs for so long that I've ended up with a couple of pairs of moulds that are surplus to requirement, one pair not even having filters any more.

 

Stumbled across a Basschat post from a few years ago (which I now can't find again to link to) where someone in this situation had bought some cheap earbuds and glued them into ACS moulds.

 

So I thought "what the heck" and bought pair of £20 buds from Amazon plus some special silicon-friendly glue. @Silvia Bluejay and I then spent a happy half-hour gluing our fingers together, and left the resulting Blue Peter mess to cure overnight.

 

Tried them at rehearsal (on keys) last night and - knock me down with a feather - it worked. 

 

Intrigued!  But what does it look like??

[Happy Jack]

4 hours ago, Kev said:

 

Intrigued!  But what does it look like??

 

In truth, not as bad as I feared.

 

For a first attempt we deliberately used far more glue than we probably needed, because my main concern was having the whole kludge fall apart the first time I took it out of my ears.

 

Next time, we'll be a lot neater.

 

[Kev]

Nice, good to see that it works, I was considering doing the same with mine, but was worried how much it'd stick out from my ear, didn't want to look like a pillock.  Assume all good?