Dude, this was the video I was looking for two years ago! And I still learned so much! Best IEM video on YT, keep going like that!

A no BS explanation. The best explanation and demonstration of IEMs on KZfaq! Thank you

Out of all the videos I've watched on this, you explained it clearly and the best. Thankyou!

Bro how is this your first KZfaq video...this is phenomenal. Great, helpful content, and awesome video production. Well done!

This video is fantastic. A lot of videos explain how to put a rig together without touching on how it works at a venue. Thanks for explaining it simply.

Chris, I’m a tech guy who has set up our bands rig for years. We’re going down the IEM route and aiming for a silent stage (electric drums) and DI’d guitars. I’ve been exploring/working out what to do / buy. You have simplified the whole process. Great video, very clear. Very professional. Please tell me you’re doing this sort of thing for your day job! Brilliant. Thanks. David.

The quality of information is insane. Thank you so much!!!

Eyyy thank you for being so visual and explaining things so well man, best video I've found so far 🤘

The most clear explanation on KZfaq! Thanks for this.

Wow. One of the most helpful KZfaq videos I've come across! Thanks so much, this answered so many of my questions, as well as a few I hadn't thought of!

Amazing vid! So many unanswered questions from previous research being cleared up very well. Seems like a much more plausible goal to reach! Thank you 🤘

Really wicked video dude, super informative and easy to follow. haven't seen a video like this at all anywhere on youtube!

This is the exact video i needed to find! Thanks Chris, you explained everything!

This is an amazing series and a great video, excellent illustrations and breakdown. Well done Sir, well Done.

Finally getting around to doing this for various 4 pieces I play with and this made setup so easy for me. Thanks a ton! I wish I had the cash for a X32 but the XR18 is solid for 4-5 piece bands!

Hey Chris, this is the most comprehensive video about the essentials for a selfcontained in ear rig I have seen so far. Very clear and professional. Thanks.

friend, your video was the one that most elucidated me in relation to the connections, about the spllitter that wonderful equipment. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, success and live the music Brazilian greetings ...

Class video Chris mate, not many people out there explain things as clearly as this! Well done lad!

Great video, lots to think about. Looking to get my first wireless mixer and in ear set up for the band. Many thanks Chris

Thank you Chris!! Brilliant video and great explaination of everything so helpful and useful! I am about to start running in ears with my weddings band / doing some live sound work so your video has saved me so much time thanks again.

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you!! I had some of the core concepts in mind, but kept bumping on how to make sure the FOH sound person got their own set of signals.

Well done Chris. Really informative and really well put together. Love you always homie.

Really good video dude. Love the format and production. Well thought through and will help a lot of folk!

This was your first video? Fantastic stuff. Very helpful explanation, thank you.

Amazing quality and very helpful, thanks!

Great video. This is exactly what I needed for my band.

Very helpful thanks. Amazing what it takes to setup in-ear monitoring.

Great video! Thanks for slowly breaking down everything, specially the wiring and patching. Thank you!

Yo Chris this vid is sicc I’m self learning how to band mix and this vid was a lot of help I’m subscribed LoOl thanks 🙏🏾

Chris. Very cool. I've been wondering how to do this WITHOUT letting a stranger who runs FOH do the mix. Thanks for clearing this up. ♥️♥️♥️

Thank you! Your video was so helpful for me to understand what I need to consider/get when I plan to get an IEM system. That yes you can get the IEM system but you also need to think about these other things as well. Up until now, I didn't really know all that so now I do and it helped me so much!

Wow for a first video this was very nicely done!!

Been looking for a video as straight forward as this! thank you!

Best in ear video out there from what I have found

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Wow did not know that there is so much to these in ears monitors. Thanks for the video

The best in ear run down not too complicated. Its time to build a rig thanks

Awesome video Chris. 👏👌

Effing incredible. I have an XR16 and was gonna sell it to get the XR18. But now I might keep both. Thanks for sharing what you've learned.

Bro loved this explanation. Thank you so much!

as of 2023, PSM200 is discontinued, you'd be looking at PSM300. They have a two different beltpack options, a plastic one and a metal one. It's capable of stereo, two mono, or mixing two mono inputs.

Great presentation & useful information!

great video Chris

That was one heck of a first youtube video haha!! Amazing thanks so much!

Great video !

Amazing Video man! ♥️ Couldn't have explained any better!🙌🙂

Dude. Thanks alot. Really cool and affortable setup)

Thank you Chris! 🖤

This was Golden thank you

Great vid dude. Thanks for the info!

Congratulations Chris! Great presentation and well delivered! #pro

Nice and easy... 😬 Great video, clear and precise

Fantastic video!

Good video mate, clearly-articulated. Thanks.

Another thing about the X air system, as well as other similar systems such as Soundcraft's UI (which apparently has a really good router, no experience with it from my side tho so I can't confirm) is that, if you tour with your own sound engineer, they can connect to a bigger mixer to mix the front of stage while you mix your own in-ears. I've been asked as a FOH engineer to do this for a band : just mix with a tablet or laptop. One of the band member also use 22" touchscreen monitor, and it's the size of a regular small board! Pretty neat. Just place a computer in the rack itself! You could even go without FOH engineering for smaller venues, just throw an ipad in the mix and you can do both.

Great video, I learnt alot touring with you!

i wish you made more; great job

Yes mate! You're a natural!

This video is great! You answered all of my questions without me having to ask them 😂

You did very well sir thanks

well done. Can not believe this was your first KZfaq video.

Nice. I have an additional XLR snake connected so I can take both the send and return XLR for each channel to the FOH stage box. I have both sides labelled and we use whatever mic channels the venue has available (if they only mic snare top then the snare bottom channel isn't used). Great video.

Awesome thanks for the tips Sir

I know this is 2 years old but TY! It demystified in ears for me and I’m looking to get a similar setup.

Great Video bro! Thanks.

Very helpful!

Fantastic video!! Very Helpful. Subscribed and looking froward to more!

Awesome video! :)

I think I understood maybe half of that. Really wanna get more into sound tech though. It's very interesting. Also great video!

Solid explanation!

Great video Chris !! Cheers from Belgium (Chump) !!

Hell yes dude, great video

Lovely job Great stuff

Great stuff mate

I just watched a different video with a guy saying there's no way to do it on the cheap and here you are explaining exactly how you do it on the cheap! LOL great video!

Thank you sir for your packaged information

Great video

I would add that Seismic Audio has a prebuilt rackmount splitter for less than the cost of the two behringer units. They comes in as little as 8 channels and go up to 32 I believe. The benefit is that there are XLR / TRS 1/4" Combo Jacks on the box end so you can plug in either type of cable. Just an option.

Great video and very informative. The next step for anyone doing this would be to learn basic EQing so that you know where to apply low cuts, remove excessive low end, etc. this will take your in ear mixes to the next level and you will hear everything better even in mono and won’t need as much volume

I take a different approach to get by with only one mixer (Soundcraft UI24R - 22 in, 10 AUX out). I use 6 of 8 XLR-AUX paths plus the 2nd headphone out (AUX 9/10) The 6 AUX paths also go into a Behringer Ultralink MS8000. (Did you notice the difference in level of the link outs? This is not a 1:1 split. The link outs are up to 7db louder than the input signal) I go from the splitter with one line to the musicians' stage monitors. I send the split as a mono signal into a LD Systems headphone amp. The AUX 9/10 is send directly to the headphone amp as a stereo mix. In this way, 6 musicians can receive an individual monitor mix and work either via stage monitor or IEM. Over IEM they can add the Main Stereo-Mix as much as they like. I then connected radio systems to the headphone amp and also use the cable route for the drums here. In addition, I pick up the main mix for the vocal effect devices here, which use it to determine their harmony.

So useful. Thank you

🙌🏻 thank you

Thanks!

great video! Thanks!

Amazing info bros! So well organized, we can clearly see all your experience standing out! Thanks so much! Any tips on what best software to use for backing tracks? (Apple Mainstage, FL, Logic...). I want to use backing tracks for a Rock Opera project and wanted to stay away from exporting stems and remixing everything at every show. Was thinking of exporting stereo tracks with a click on one side, and many exports with different options if a musician does not show up. Any experience with something like that? Anyway, it might be another video idea for you! Thanks man!

cool! thanks mate

Great video Chris and the best explanation I've seen so far as have just started thinking about this for my own band. One thing I'm struggling with is how it is practical when arriving for soundcheck lets say as the second or third band of the night and needing to ask the sound tech to unplug everything from their stage box and plug it all into ours. Changeovers are often very tight and this just seems like I might encounter a lot of eye rolling and the soundcheck taking much longer while we have to faff about. Then there is the changeover before we actually go on, I suppose if we can leave everything in the splitter then it's a bit simpler but still feels like a lot to think about in 15 -20 mins as well as setting up pedal boards, amps etc. In my case it doesn't help that we use a lot of channels with two drummers, 2 guitars, bass, keys and 4 vocals, what would your advice be there, just perhaps stick to kick and snare for the kits, then instruments and vox? It makes a lot of sense and would love to have a self mixed in ear stage sound but seems tough to achieve, for my band's set up at least. I guess an alternative might be to send the monitor mix (rather than FOH) to wireless boxes? Obvs I realise you're at the mercy of the local sound tech but just thinking as they often will do a mix for the drum fill and then separate ones for stage wedges whether it's possible to just get those mixes in ear instead? Sorry, long post! If you have any advice would be a great help!

You did good buddy!1

Finally, a video that breaks this down and won't break the bank

first?!?! this was awesome man!

Brilliant :)

Brilliant! :D

Good vid.

Thank you so much for this video! My band is currently looking into an IEM set up and this seems to make the most sense. What I need to know more about is how backing tracks can be included via laptop/Ipad. Is it possible for all members to have their own mixes while simultaneously monitoring backing tracks and click, while sending samples and soundscapes to FOH? I'm just not sure if it's possible with a stereo mix but audio stems perhaps? Cheers from Ontario, Canada!

Hey bud! Love the video, really broke down the jargen for peeps like myself 😅 My band is looking into building a rig just like this but I just have a few questions regarding our gear. So we are a 5 piece, vox/bass/guitars x 2/drums, drummer can have the wired stereo mix like you run and the rest of us can run mono. My drummer has a EAD10, would he just plug that straight in instead of using drum mics? As it's a mic/trigger unit. Also I use a kemper stage and the other player uses a Helix, both unpowered units, would it be best to have a power amp in the rack? Or use our FrFr to power our gear? Just trying to make this as clear as possible in mind 😅 also we are running backing tracks, how would we do that with this system? Many thanks in advance dude!!

You were at 999 subs and i suscribed, i just had to

Good video

Awesome

Ayyy shoutout to Harris Heller stream beats in the background. Love his tracks

Hi bro, thank you for this vodeo. Currently I’ve got a Presonus 16.02 the FireWire version and a behringer xr18 My question is how do I create these separate mixes for the artistes to make their own personal mix. This needs a short and in-depth video so we can follow along. Thanks much Thumbs up on this video.❤

We've been doing this for years for our ZZ Top Tribute band, LegZZ - A Tribute to ZZ TOP. Works great!