Thanks for having me Adam! Really enjoyed working on these with you dude 🤘 If anyone has any questions about this and what we did, feel free to reach out ☺️ Miles (DCA)
I really like these videos, but would’ve been cool to compare to the Shure SE 215s, which practically everyone uses and actually isolate very well. I think it would’ve been interesting how they compare in terms of sound quality, user experience etc. I actually feel like I‘m more limited by my LD Systems wireless, than my universal Shure IEMs and think about upgrading that first
Really. I don't have your experience with the KZ'S and neither do my mates. We recently switched from floor monitors to in-ears with acoustic drums, just adding a bit of drums overheads into the inears mixes. I have this condition where my left ear crackles (starts at about 100 dB). In rehearsals I used to have this often, I now have no problems and no feeling of it being loud whatsoever. And hearing a much clearer mix, hearing all parts everyone's playing. I'm using KZ zs10 pro x that I know several artists use (won out easily against Sh SE215 and Senn ie100s). I did try a lot of tips to get the best isolation, ended up on the stock ones, don't like the foam. I still think even the cheap chifi inears are a step up from floor monitors. What I do think makes a huge difference is that we do run a pretty low volume show, playing worship in old churches with often huge reverb, we can't afford booming drums or we'd be useless. So we don't need 40dB isolation. Being sensible with remaining acoustic volume, keeping an eye on your levels and using the best size tips for your inears gets you a long way towards protecting your ears.
I use the plug-in rea-tune in reaper. When I was sinning, and it was easier to stay in key. Have you tried it. And no, I was not using the auto tune feature.
Hot tip I brick wall limit all aux sends for in ears to -12 dB to avoid any crazy pops and clicks within the unit I try to keep them on the edge of quiet and roll volume until the bass becomes balanced to it I also try and eq them a bit to slide off the 50hz and down and 10k and up. I do the same thing with my headphones units and I max the average to 75 to 80 dB works well no ear issues
Putting a limiter at -12db doesn't mean anything because you can boost the headphone amp anyway. It won't matter how loud the signal is, if the headphone amp doesn't output anything then it doesn't matter and vice versa. + Headphones and IEMs have varying impedance and sensitivty levels meaning at the same volume settings they could output varying SPLs.
Thanks for having me Adam! Really enjoyed working on these with you dude 🤘 If anyone has any questions about this and what we did, feel free to reach out ☺️ Miles (DCA)
I’ve wondered about this for a while, so thank you for hitting this topic.
Glad you enjoyed it! There’ll be more in depth videos like this coming out on my channel soon 😊 Miles (DCA)
This has been a great series of vids on IEM's, thanks.
I really like these videos, but would’ve been cool to compare to the Shure SE 215s, which practically everyone uses and actually isolate very well.
I think it would’ve been interesting how they compare in terms of sound quality, user experience etc.
I actually feel like I‘m more limited by my LD Systems wireless, than my universal Shure IEMs and think about upgrading that first
Really. I don't have your experience with the KZ'S and neither do my mates. We recently switched from floor monitors to in-ears with acoustic drums, just adding a bit of drums overheads into the inears mixes. I have this condition where my left ear crackles (starts at about 100 dB). In rehearsals I used to have this often, I now have no problems and no feeling of it being loud whatsoever. And hearing a much clearer mix, hearing all parts everyone's playing. I'm using KZ zs10 pro x that I know several artists use (won out easily against Sh SE215 and Senn ie100s). I did try a lot of tips to get the best isolation, ended up on the stock ones, don't like the foam. I still think even the cheap chifi inears are a step up from floor monitors.
What I do think makes a huge difference is that we do run a pretty low volume show, playing worship in old churches with often huge reverb, we can't afford booming drums or we'd be useless. So we don't need 40dB isolation. Being sensible with remaining acoustic volume, keeping an eye on your levels and using the best size tips for your inears gets you a long way towards protecting your ears.
I use the plug-in rea-tune in reaper. When I was sinning, and it was easier to stay in key. Have you tried it. And no, I was not using the auto tune feature.
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Hot tip I brick wall limit all aux sends for in ears to -12 dB to avoid any crazy pops and clicks within the unit I try to keep them on the edge of quiet and roll volume until the bass becomes balanced to it I also try and eq them a bit to slide off the 50hz and down and 10k and up. I do the same thing with my headphones units and I max the average to 75 to 80 dB works well no ear issues
I also do the same for my mains 80 to 85 dB tops
Putting a limiter at -12db doesn't mean anything because you can boost the headphone amp anyway. It won't matter how loud the signal is, if the headphone amp doesn't output anything then it doesn't matter and vice versa. + Headphones and IEMs have varying impedance and sensitivty levels meaning at the same volume settings they could output varying SPLs.