Ripper Posted December 9, 2002 Share Posted December 9, 2002 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaveArts Posted December 9, 2002 Share Posted December 9, 2002 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? :) Alex Westner VP Marketing & Prod Dev Wave Arts support@wavearts.com http://www.wavearts.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Record Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nawor Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 [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: "WARNING!" - this artificial fruit juice may contain traces of REAL FRUIT!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtrmac Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Check out the Mackie Stage Monitors: http://www.mackie.com/sr/srm450/SRM450a.html Mac Bowne G-Clef Acoustics Ltd. Osaka, Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonebag Posted December 10, 2002 Share Posted December 10, 2002 Check this out: http://www.shure.com/psm/models/p4tre1.asp?V=PSM400 beats out anything I have ever had before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 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. -David http://www.garageband.com/artist/MichaelangelosMuse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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