Do you know the common problems and misunderstandings of these monitor headphones?

Do you know the common problems and misunderstandings of these monitor headphones?

 

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With technological advancement and cost reduction, in-ear monitor headphones have begun to become popular in the market, and every musician who needs to monitor on stage is eager to try.

Compared with traditional monitor speakers, in-ear monitor headphones do have many features and benefits. However, in-ear monitor headphones are not a panacea for any problem. Although it looks professional, it does have some shortcomings and people’s misunderstandings. Before deciding to use it, it is better to understand these misunderstandings and their problems:

Misunderstanding 1: “Monitoring headphones can solve all monitoring problems”

The effectiveness of monitor headphones is indeed amplified sometimes. For various reasons, performers are dissatisfied with the stage monitoring system and may hope to solve it by wearing monitoring headphones. But what many people don’t know is that monitor headphones, like speakers, will also be affected by the GIGO principle, or even worse. (Translator’s Note: Garbage In, Garbage Out-The input sound is not good, the output is also garbage)

For example, maybe you feel that the monitor speakers on the floor can’t let you hear everything you want to hear clearly, so you decide to use in-ear monitor headphones. Now, this poor mix is sent directly to your ears, there is a problem with the input mix, and there is no small tuner living in the headphones to mix it for you. So, what you hear is still a bad sound. Even more frightening is that because the in-ear monitor headphones will isolate some of the surrounding environment sounds, the drums and hand boxes on the stage now become more difficult to hear. The solution that hoped to listen to the hand box and monitor speakers together was also blocked. In this case, you may become insensitive to subtle changes in level, and it is difficult to deal with performance skills and intensity delicately.

If you only use monitor headphones without monitor speakers, the physical pressure of the bass will disappear.

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      So what kind of sound should be put in the monitor headphones, and how to arrange the mixing needs to be individually and intelligently considered. If you are a drummer and need to follow a bass sample to play, in the stage monitor speakers, you feel that the bass low frequencies emitted by the speakers conflict with the kick drum, causing both to be inaudible. Then you can first let the tuner adjust the drummer’s monitor speakers. If you encounter monitor speakers that cannot adjust the EQ independently or other unsolvable problems, use monitor headphones to isolate low frequency interference (but low frequencies are not as easy to isolate as high frequencies) , Or just put samples in the headphones to compensate for monitoring.

large-scale concert or music festival, the characteristics of the monitor headphones to isolate external sounds will also affect your experience of the scene and affect the mood of interaction. So we can see that in some outstanding music festivals, if the performers use monitor headphones, the professional audio team will transmit the atmosphere of the scene to the performers’ monitor headphones through the microphones pointed at the audience. Some high-quality driven headsets even have small microphones to compensate for ambient sound.

Also, wearing monitor headphones, you can hardly feel some low-frequency or ultra-low information. If you only use monitor headphones without monitor speakers, the physical pressure of the bass will disappear. This may reduce your perception and affect the mood of the performance.

In-ear Monitor Earphone

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Post time: Sep-11-2020