My church is moving towards purchasing an IEM system and is dangerously close to spending money without thinking through the decisions first.
I originally spec-d either Behringer P16m's or the Avioms for the instrumentalists and then later when more money came in we could upgrade the vocalists with Sennheiser ew300's. My Worship Leader has decided he doesn't like Behringer for whatever reason and is leaning towards the Avioms (which is fine) but now wants to get Shure PSM300's for the vocalists.
I don't know anything about those units, but they look very similar to Shure's BLX line which is OK, but I think a bit underwhelming for bi-weekly use and abuse.
We run an Allen and Heath GL2800, so anything IEM is going to have to be patched in via analog. I was planning on taking the direct outs for each channel and sending them to the brain for either the Behringer or the Aviom and then using Aux 1-4 to create mixes for the 3-4 w/l IEM's.
The only question I had about that was that we currently take the direct out's to a PreSonus FireStudio box for recording. I haven't looked yet, but I'm hoping there's a way to take direct out's from there to give to the IEM's. If not, what would you recommend?
The other question I had was regarding the Behringer P16 vs. the Aviom AN16i. As I understand it you need the distributor on the other end of the ethernet cable to power the units (in our case I was looking at the D400). The Behringer P16's have an in and thru for the Ultranet, does that mean I can go straight from the interface and daisy chain? Or do I still need a distributor between my interface and IEM's?
Thanks!
I originally spec-d either Behringer P16m's or the Avioms for the instrumentalists and then later when more money came in we could upgrade the vocalists with Sennheiser ew300's. My Worship Leader has decided he doesn't like Behringer for whatever reason and is leaning towards the Avioms (which is fine) but now wants to get Shure PSM300's for the vocalists.
I don't know anything about those units, but they look very similar to Shure's BLX line which is OK, but I think a bit underwhelming for bi-weekly use and abuse.
We run an Allen and Heath GL2800, so anything IEM is going to have to be patched in via analog. I was planning on taking the direct outs for each channel and sending them to the brain for either the Behringer or the Aviom and then using Aux 1-4 to create mixes for the 3-4 w/l IEM's.
The only question I had about that was that we currently take the direct out's to a PreSonus FireStudio box for recording. I haven't looked yet, but I'm hoping there's a way to take direct out's from there to give to the IEM's. If not, what would you recommend?
The other question I had was regarding the Behringer P16 vs. the Aviom AN16i. As I understand it you need the distributor on the other end of the ethernet cable to power the units (in our case I was looking at the D400). The Behringer P16's have an in and thru for the Ultranet, does that mean I can go straight from the interface and daisy chain? Or do I still need a distributor between my interface and IEM's?
Thanks!
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