How to monitor yourself onstage? nearfields?

[Ripper]

I'm off to buy some new equipment to monitor myself onstage for some shows that I'm doing and I really want to monitor myself in stereo. Has anybody tried to use nearfield monitors for live monitoring? Are they robust enough, do the play loud enough?

[WaveArts]

Loud enough? Probably. Robust? What kind of nearfields are we talking about here? Would you feel comfortable dropping your spanky clean nearfield monitors on the ground from five feet in the air, only to then have the drummer from the previous band kick them by accident on his way off the stage? :)

[Record]

W.A. is totally right if you are going to bring it on the road try to make sure that it is pretty road worty like speaker grills and steel corners or else you will be breaking your stuff and wasting some of that good cold hard cash!!! Just watching out for you!!! Dave

[Nawor]

[quote]Originally posted by Ripper: [b]...Has anybody tried to use nearfield monitors for live monitoring? Are they robust enough, do the play loud enough?[/b][/quote]If you're doing a solo acoustic set... they might be. If you're competing with the drummer and a double Marshall stack in a metal band... forget it! :eek:

[gtrmac]

Check out the Mackie Stage Monitors: http://www.mackie.com/sr/srm450/SRM450a.html

[bonebag]

Check this out: http://www.shure.com/psm/models/p4tre1.asp?V=PSM400 beats out anything I have ever had before.

[DC]

I've used hot spots with good results. They are rugged and mount on a mic stand. The trick is to get them close enough to your ears. I'd say with two for just you, they'd work just fine. I've used them for my vocals in bands with drummers placing them even with my mic stand where it meets the boom on my mic.