Why musicians wear those “earbuds” on stage #inears #musician #shorts #singers

[Ashtonklein-lnxo]

just so everyone understands, not every performer who use in ear monitors playing with metronome or cues in their ear pieces, the number 1 use of IEMs are to replace the stage speakers so they can hear their own performance better, cause sometimes the place they were playing at has too much natural reverbs that make the stage speakers gets inaudible so bad

[louisg]

Remember though that this is an example where the band is playing along to a click track to stay in time. The band/artist may be using other sounds not being played live by the musicians such as loops, samples, supporting tracks such as backing tracks/vocals.

[divatz]

Ikr. It’s hard to hear the music or the count with all the other sounds going on

[bassmaniacriley]

I use IEM’s for a balanced mix and convenience of less stage monitors, if any, and backline. Let the P/A do the work.

[louisg]

An artist I manage just told me at a small venue she could barely hear herself or the band over the crowd. While that's a great problem to have an audience so into your performance, IEM's would have helped her and the band to hear themselves despite the crowd :-)

[Gurofluff]

Hey there! I had a question I can't find answered anywhere online. just saw a live show recently and was wondering if the singer can hear the audience? Like could the musician hear the audience roaring/cheering?
Thankyou very much :)

[adamd]

Everybody does something differentwith the in ears, a lot of metal bands, for example the drummer has a loud click track. Everybody else follows the drummer to stay in time. And everyone else has something different going on in their ears based on their own preference.

[myxoplic]

You need to clarify for people that don't know the difference btwn "earbuds" and in ear monitors. You've said earbuds many times..earbuds and IEM's are different!

[AdrianMoseley]

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[shravanichikalthankar]

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[axzy]

This was 80% you yapping 20% useful info

[jayyoutube]

I hear a metronome and myself playing.

[BentleyAX]

Are u required to wear them? Because my my brother and a few friends are starting a band and I’m just curious if it’s required to wear them while on tour.

[nikospantelis]

Does that mean that a guitarist cannot hear the whole band as the audience hears it? Each member hears only his parts, and maybe a metronome?

[Canoneosmiami]

There is no way they remember their own songs texts, do they have them played a step in advance?

[dianesamp]

COOL SHARE HB, I DON'T RECALL ANYONE ELSE EXPLAINING THEM. SO, COULD YOUR DRUMMER AS AN EXAMPLE SAY SOMETHING TO YOU LIKE, CHECK OUT A FAN SIGN? 🤍

[swsha]

lemme guess, all your songs are in 4?

[Newmusicreview]

I know all about this but find it a bit desperate that musicians dont even need to remember their own songs anymore ..if you dont know where you are in your own song...well...

[PlayGtr]

Okay young lady, the reason why "musicians" use in-ears is because back in the day bands performing live had monitors on the stage facing the so they could hear themselves sing over the music but there was always problems that would occur with those on stage monitors. Fast foward to in-ears being invented, musicians and singers no longer needed to use on stage monitors because the new in-ears were playing their vocals in their ear so they can hear themselves AND not to have to use a crutch of some voice cuing up telling them what to do next or a click track giving them the tempo to play to because that is what the drummer is for, just ask Ringo Starr. Also if you are a musician you do not need to be told when to sing or when to come in on your guitar solo because you are a dam musician and you already know how and when to do that by many years of practice and working the song out in lpractice. Do you think Brian May or Freddie Mercury of Queen ever used that kind of cheating crap?!! Heck no and neither has any other classic rock band .. Brian is currently playing with Queen and Adam Lambert right now in Japan and he still isn't using something so ridiculous. I'm sure that is how you were taught but this is not a good thing to get used to using. It's a crutch a true musician doesn't need and it ruins one's musicianship.