How to Run Your Own In Ear Monitors - A Complete Step by Step Guide

In this video, we will go over how to run your own in-ear monitors for your band. This is a complete and step-by-step guide, so it's a fairly long video, but if you want to skip around, the time codes are below. There are multiple ways to do this, but once you understand the basic ideas, you'll be able to do it in the way that works for you.

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0:00 - Intro
0:57 - Benefits of Running Your Own IEM's
2:37 - Gear Needed
4:04 - Digital Setup
7:38 - Connecting IEM's
8:55 - Connecting to Splitter
11:14 - Connecting to Mixer
12:59 - Using the App to Control Mixes
14:54 - Gear Recommendations
16:51 - Tips & Advice

🔥 DIGITAL MIXERS 🔥
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◆ BEHRINGER X32 Rack:
◆ BEHRINGER XR18:
◆ BEHRINGER XR16:
◆ BEHRINGER XR12:

◆ SOUNDCRAFT - Ui16 or Ui24 ◆

🔥 SPLITTERS 🔥
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◆ SEISMIC AUDIO - 32 CHANNEL FLOOR SPLIT ◆

◆ SEISMIC AUDIO - 16 CHANNEL RACK SPLIT ◆

◆ SEISMIC AUDIO - 32 CHANNEL RACK SPLIT◆

🔥 WIRELESS IEM SYSTEMS 🔥
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◆ SENNHEISER EW IEM:

◆ SHURE PSM300:

◆ PHEYNX PRO PTM-10 (Budget Friendly) ◆

◆ AUDIO TECHNICA ATW-3255 (My Main System):

◆ SHURE PSM1000 :

🔥 EARBUDS 🔥
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◆ SHURE - SE245CL ◆

◆ CCA - CA4 DUAL DRIVER IN EAR EARPHONES (only $20 😱) ◆

◆ CCA - C12 IN EAR EARPHONES (6 Drivers) ◆

🔥 WIRED IEMS 🔥
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◆ BEHRINGER - POWERPLAY P2 ◆

◆ BEHRINGER - POWERPLAY P1 ◆

💥 MY IEM RACK EQUIPMENT💥
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◆ MIXER:
◆ IEM SYSTEM:
◆ IEM SYSTEM 2:
◆ SENNHEISER Directional Passive Antenna:
◆ RF VENUE Passive Antenna Combiner:
◆ POWER CONDITIONER:
◆ RACK CASE:
◆ RACK SPLITTER:
◆ RACK MOUNT WIFI ROUTER:

+ MY IEM VIDEO SERIES
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Video 1:

Video 2

Video 3

Video 4

Setting up routers for digital mixer:

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[thomasarballo]

Cannot stress how incredibly helpful this is.

[thecordova]

This video was so well done. The humor and meme clips were great too. 🙏🏻 thank you

[Vela_Isai]

This is as the best video I found on building your own monitoring system. I appreciate your time for making this video.

[raymonette]

Scott. This is a really well laid out video series. Great information and I absolutely love that all the information is pertinent.

[dxaminal]

This IEM series is 🔥! Thought I had a plan before me, now I know there are Sooo many options!

[mikegeo]

Thanks for this video ! Great video and very

[darrylday]

Thanks for you help. I’ve used your advice for years but things have changed. I used to play gigs with the same band and the same pa. Easy peasy. Now, I play festival stuff with a 10 min setup between bands! Plugging in a 16 channel splitter box is NOT an option. I’d love to just mix my own mix on my tablet but it never works out. Lost wifi password is the most common excuse but really the lack of time is the issue.

here’s the plan:

1) Velcro a Rolls PM 351 Personal Monitor System to my keyboard,
2) Vocal Mic and keys into the Rolls PM351 and thru to the PA,
3) Split off the stage wedge monitor line and plug it into the Rolls Monitor LINE IN,
4) Ask sound guy to copy and paste the main mix to my wedge, and
5) mix a combo of MIC, INST, and MONITOR on the Rolls to my IEMs

If I can’t tap into the monitor mix my back up plan is to run a LINE OUT from my Zoom recorder into the LINE IN on the Rolls and point the Zoom in the least offensive sounding direction.

Splitting off the monitor line is probably going to sound the best but I’m not sure what gear I would need depending on whether I’m dealing with powered, unpowered, bi amped and the varied connectors involved. Suggestions would be appreciated.

[josephalvarez]

Great video! This is so helpful in a world where easy to follow/ learn EIM vids are scarce.

[eddieeagle]

Hi Scott. I just wanted to tell you thanks so much for your informative videos, as ive used as bunch of your videos to set up my IEM system, with a Behringer XR12 second hand with 4 outputs as per your video on how to do that, with all the band with wired P2’s, with your recommended CCA C12 earphones. My band mates are so stoked with how it sounds, with the defining point for me being able to hear the little bass licks my bassist puts into the verses, that ive never heard before! Rather than a splitter snake we are using DI boxes on the end of all the gat pedalboards, and individual XLR splitter cables on all the mics as that was significantly cheaper.

For all the watchers out there this is legit and a game changing way to set up your band. All up, to buy all the cables to connect the band, the XR12 second hand it cost 600 NZD. Each band member brought their own Behringer P2 and earphones. We used cable crap to wrap an IEM cable and the DI cable together, so that their is still only one cable from the mixer to your pedalboard, then the same for the cable to your guitar/P2.

Highly recommend you do this as well!

[paulbutton]

Thank you for the reply! I know this video is a couple years old, so awesome that you still responded.
I actually found and watched that video right after posting my question. Still slightly confused, but I will rewatch, and most likely skip the DI Box for now and see how it goes.

Thank you again!

[abhishekdani]

I cardinally appreciate your work sir, your one channel teaches me a lot than any others, Thank you

[MaxNaef]

This guide is a literal lifesaver, amazing work!

[_patrikjay_]

This is an excellent full guide vid for setting these type of rigs up, thanks and great job

[marcomorales]

Thanks for this video! The XR18 is a workhorse. I use it for home recording and started using it for in ear monitoring right before lock down happened. it really made a difference. Can't wait to see your next posts. thanks again!

[drummingwithscissors]

Wow. Great series. This IEM series was so helpful.

IEM ADVICE NEEDED:

Band has been using IEMs for about a few months with our XR16 but our bass player hated them. He wants to use a wedge on stage. The rest of us want to continue to use IEMs.

1) What pitfalls (if any) will we encounter using a hybrid of wedges and IEMs as monitors?

2) What adjustments should we make on stage and in the Xair app to adjust for the addition of a wedge to our set up?

Thanks. I want our bass player to hear what he wants and how he wants, I just don’t want to compromise those of us still using IEMs.

[fulsound_]

wow, i rarely comment on videos but this video is worth the comment! This was super super helpful, been trying to find an explanation like this for a while and finally here it is! Thank you so much man! Cheers from México xx

[kdub]

Thank you for sharing! Incredible detail and knowledge here and very useful. The explanations are on point where folks should feel like walking away near experts after viewing this! (I know I do 😃)

[troycarter]

BEST VIDEO by far of setting up a system. Thank you.

[ortegaman]

Hello, Everyone. 👋

New subscriber here, just want to thank for this guide as I found it very informative and well explained, like other videos in this channel.

One aspect to point out is the benefits of using a splitter to separate the signal and have total control in your own mixer, so this should be a standard for bands of any kind, some performers just bring their instruments and no more personal gear, based on my experience there’s still some people that are used to just step in stage without any kind of extra equipment and just hope for the best, I know is not easy to invest in a separate mixer for monitoring specially if you play in different venues, like private events, small spaces or even on places that doesn’t have any kind of PA.

In other hand personal monitoring can be done without the need of a splitter, it’s just a ideal scenario where the band affords to have a separate mixer just for monitors, but if you don’t have a splitter it can be done just fine if the band knows how to use their phone/tablet apps and let the sound engineer control the main mix to the PA.

[whosfranco]

TYSM! the only tutorial that actually explained everything easily