I had a thought about montoring drums but I dont know if this makes sense. I want to use IEM or Isolation headphones of some type and place a room mic in front of drums set about 5-10 feet away and feed that audio back into my headphone basically capturing what the sound would be if I was standing 5-10 ft in front of drums. So, bascially I would be in effect hearing what a close listener would here when standing in front of drums, rather than hearing what I would normally hear behind the drum set. Not sure it that makes sense, but I want to feed back into my headphone more of what the audience might hear rather than hearing my drums from my seating postion or close micing the drums, mixing and hearing the drums that way. So, a single microphone pointing staight back at the drum kit and amplifed audio fed back into my phone along with a blanced mix of the rest of the band. I don't know how well this would work in practice as that mic would pick up not only drums but whatever else was in that sound field space. But the idea of hearing more of the front sound that the audience hears kindof intrigues me. I don't know if I explained this well enough, but would this work in practice? This is for Live in small venue with realatively low volume with an unmiced drum kit. Thanks for any thoughts in advance. dan
IEM/Headphones with Microphone Outfront
