Just came back from a practice today, and my ears were hurting at the end of the session. Now don’t get me wrong, I love my in-ear monitors. I have a pair of Shure E4’s (I have a mini-review here) and they’re small, portable, and just sound good, but after a while, they start to hurt my ears. I’m almost tempted to get a pair of good closed headphones to use for practices (maybe these?), and only use the E4’s when we’re actually at a gig. Another option might be to get custom molds for the E4’s. They’re expensive (around $100 I hear), but I guess that’s cheaper than the other set of headphones. Then again, I’d use the other headphones more often, and it’d be useful to have a good set of closed headphones for studio work. Hm…
Responses to “In-Ear Monitors”
December 13th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
[…] In-ear monitors are your friends. Not only do they save your hearing if you’re on stage with a loud drummer (or any at all), they also cut down on stage noise so that you’re not fighting with the drummer to hear yourself, stop stage bleed, and reduce feedback, not to mention deafening the audience a little less. […]
January 15th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Yep, I should probably put it somewhere obvious on this site, but my email is audioreviewer@gmail.com
January 15th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Oh, also, although I’m open to emails, I’d encourage discussion here in the comments if it’s relevant to the topic at hand so that other people can benefit from the conversation or add their own related input.
November 27th, 2006 at 12:26 am
[…] In-ear monitors are your friends. Not only do they save your hearing if you’re on stage with a loud drummer (or any at all), they also cut down on stage noise so that you’re not fighting with the drummer to hear yourself, stop stage bleed, and reduce feedback, not to mention deafening the audience a little less. […]