The use of monitors has been an issue for a long time in our P&W band. Even though I've placed the monitors right under the keyboard player and drummer, they're constantly wanting the volume pretty loud. This makes the onstage volume in general too loud. Trying to ween them off the high volume has been challenging. Anyway, we were chatting about this today and they are keen to use headphones, which surprised me, I thought they'd hate something like that, but since that's what they want, I'd like to run with it pronto.
So, what exactly do I need to do to make this happen? We have 4 monitors, 2 powered and 2... er... unpowered? ??? Passive? Anyway, we've been having issues with the amp that drives the passive monitors. Would it be possible to send a signal from the desk directly to headphones without the amp? Through whatever gadget/box that's needed for the headphones? I'm exposing my complete ignorance here.
A concern I have here is that my drummer plays an acoustic set. All my efforts to get an electronic set has been unsuccessful. I'm worried that wearing headphones may cause her to play even louder then she does now.
I was thinking of placing a condenser mic between the set. If she begins playing too loudly the desk guy can (if necessary) increase her drums to her headphones which should get her to back off ?
So, any advice would be great ?
So, what exactly do I need to do to make this happen? We have 4 monitors, 2 powered and 2... er... unpowered? ??? Passive? Anyway, we've been having issues with the amp that drives the passive monitors. Would it be possible to send a signal from the desk directly to headphones without the amp? Through whatever gadget/box that's needed for the headphones? I'm exposing my complete ignorance here.
A concern I have here is that my drummer plays an acoustic set. All my efforts to get an electronic set has been unsuccessful. I'm worried that wearing headphones may cause her to play even louder then she does now.
I was thinking of placing a condenser mic between the set. If she begins playing too loudly the desk guy can (if necessary) increase her drums to her headphones which should get her to back off ?
So, any advice would be great ?