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Post subject: In Ear Monitors with Passport PA
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 6:57 pm
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Duo looking to have both of us use in ears with the Passport and be able to control our mixes individually. We have no prior experience with in ear monitors. How do we go about it?


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Post subject: Re: In Ear Monitors with Passport PA
Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 8:44 am
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The Passport is a great PA in many ways, especially in terms of being simple enough to operate that a performer can run his own sound.

Unfortunately, simplicity and the feature list are often at odds when designing a PA. The weak point of the Passport design is that there are no monitor mixes. You can get the house mix from the Line Out to feed a third-party unit to connect to your in-ear monitors, but there are no "Aux" or "Monitor" mixes. This would require knobs your unit doesn't have and outputs controlled by those knobs that you don't have.

PA systems that give you multiple monitor mixes tend to involve you combining separate components, and lugging them around. Your mixer would be separate from your speakers. Generally speaking, All-In-One units like the Passport focus on portability and simplicity of use.

If you want monitor mixes with your Passport, you need a redundant mixer that you plug your sound sources into. There, you'd mix your sound and mix your monitor mixes, and use the line-level output from that mixer as inputs for two channels of your Passport. You'd then feed Aux outputs from the new mixer into your transmitter for your In-Ear monitors. This ignores most of the features of your Passport, basically using it as a power amp for its speakers. I've done this. I don't recommend it.

You'd have more stuff to carry around, and it's more complex to operate, because you now have to watch for clipping or weak signal on the new mixer's pre-amps, the new mixer's Master Volume, the Passport line-in channels, and the Passport Master Volume.

I recommend you either use the Passport for what it's designed to do (working with the house mix and no monitor mix), or replace it with components that give you all the features you want, like a Mackie DL1608 (plus an iPad), plus some active speakers, and the In-Ear monitor transmitter/receivers of your dreams, and then spend a couple months learning how to use all this stuff, because it's not that simple. And I hope your car is big enough to lug all this stuff. This is why sound guys exist, and most performers don't do their own sound, unless they work with something simpler, like the Passport.

Your performance will be hurt less by not having separate monitor mixes than it will be hurt by you being distracted by your gear, trying to use a "feature-rich" sound system while you are performing.


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