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I have been using in ears for about 7 years now. I hate going back to wedges. The primary reason I love them is that I can keep my levels low, hear everything great and have no ear fatigue at the end of the night.
I use the Sennheiser IEM 300 G2 and it's a great system. If I am getting a send from the house monitor mixer, whether from a dedicated monitor mixer or from FOH, I get a mono mix and use the "focus" mode to blend in my bass as needed.
Otherwise, I bring a 24 channel split and run into a metric halo based setup that allows me to do a stereo mix for myself, the drummer (who controls his via Ableton Live with a Behringer BCF2000. If he wasn't on this rig, he probably would have quit the band by now) and the keyboard player. It works great, soundcheck involves about 10 minutes of tweaking the basic mix that is saved from night to night and off we go.
Where there are not enough monitor mixes to go around, I've even use the mono out of a FOH board and used the FOH mix and blended that with my bass.
Sometimes it can be hard to hear people talking, etc, but you get used to it and it's vastly preferable to dealing with wedges, etc.
DO NOT JUST USE ONE! I can't stress this enough because of the issues outlined above. Especially for a singer. You will inevitably turn up the in ear to match or exceed the volume of the stage and that is very very dangerous. You are way better off just getting some decent ear plugs if you want to hear the stage.
In any case, when we get to use our full monitor rig, everyone loves it. The FOH guy loves it because it cleans up the crap flying around on stage, he doesn't have to worry about 3 of the mixes (singing drummers can really screw up stage sound with a cranked monitor) and we help wire the stage for him. The band loves it because they can really hear very well and there's no ear fatigue.
Edwin
PS My drummer and keyboard player also love it because they go wired and the drummer works at Grace Design, so they use M902s!
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