Behringer MICROMON MA400 Ultra-Compact Monitor Headphone Amplifier, Silver

I'm a professional musician, I do guitar and lead vocals in a full band and in acoustic solo shows. I really wanted in-ear monitors. I got some cheap in-ear monitors, but even though they have a volume control, they sometimes do not work with certain PA systems, or they just don't have enough power to give me enough volume. I bought this product to try to solve that issue, and it's working. It adds additional power and volume to in-ear monitor systems. You can run a quarter inch instrument cable from the PA system's monitor outputs, line out, or even headphone out depending on the setup. Plug that cable into the monitor input on the behringer thingy, then plug your in-ear monitors or regular headphones into the behringer thingy. You will now have more power and volume, and an additional volume control so that you can hear the monitor mix from the pa. It's always hardest to hear the vocals, so there is an additional option you can use separately or together with the monitor mix. You can plug your vocal mic into the behringer thingy, then plug the behringer thingy into the mic input of the PA system. The PA system will just be getting your microphone signal like it normally would. No fuss for the sound guy. But, you can then hear your vocals at a much louder level that you can turn up and turn down. If you do it this way, you can hear just your vocals OR just the full PA mix OR both, and you can control their volume levels separately. So if you're looking to get in-ear monitors, also get this product so that you can have more power and control. In-ear monitors by themselves might not be enough unless you get really high-end expensive ones. With this product, you can get cheap ones or you can just use regular headphones. I recommend Bluetooth headphones or actual wireless in-ear monitors.

If you use a Click track or a metronome then this is a vital part of your set. My brother is a killer drummer who has been recognized by Guitar Center, and also he played behind Christian Artist Eddie James. I bought him one of these for his birthday cause he complained about how he never could get a good mix with his headphones. I saw this on Amazon and decided to try it. BEST PURCHASE EVER!!!!! Now when he goes and plays at different venues all he does is require them to send him an even mix of the music and he can control how loud the click track is as well as the mix. It doesn't stop there, it works as a DI box as well, he can send the track to the mixer and they can separately control it to the house or other mixes on stage. It doesn't stop there either, this Bad Johnson has some sort of ground lift or noise cancelation technology in it. I'm not sure what it is cause I've never just looked at it closely enough, but most the time when something has a complete loop through the system you'll get some sort of buzz, hum, squeal, or echo, well this thing completely eliminates that problem, it also cancels the click track from coming back through. I'm a pianist and sometimes I use my laptop to add certain sounds to accompany what I play through Midi, I'm going to buy one of these to hear my own mix to hear it cleaner through my headphones, I'm also thinking about getting one for everyone in our worship team in our church. These things are handy and you can always find a place for them. My brother brings this thing along before he brings his custom set of cymbals, snare, or foot. If you are reading this, just go ahead and buy it, its worth 3x more than what its priced for....believe me.

I bought 5 of these guys to use with my band for personal in ear monitoring. Can't beat the price on them, and they perform pretty well. We're using them connected to one of the new Behringer XR-18 digital mixers where each band member has his own AUX buss output to control their individual monitor mixes. We connect them using XLR cables direct to the mic input on these boxes. We have found that there is a delicate balance between sounding great and getting distortion and have to get the gain structure setup right. We had to dial down the aux outputs to be around -25 Db in order to not overdrive the preamp in this box. But that makes sense because it is expecting a mic level input to it. I haven't been able to tell for sure, but a couple times I think I did get distortion when I turned up the mic level on this box high also, so I think that something was overloading inside too. But, keeping the level input around 1 o'clock has worked well for me. Also, the XR-18 supports putting a compressor on the output of the auxes which is something we're experimenting with in order to help curb any surprise distortion as we all get into what we're playing. The boxes seem pretty durable and we have just used some "command" removable velcro strips to stick them onto amps, keyboards, etc to keep them in place. I love that they have dual sized headphone outputs so we can use either size easily. The only issue we've had so far is making sure that we don't leave the power supply bricks behind at our gigs ;)

I bought this little guy a while ago and finally got around to trying it out this week- it works well for the price, and actually seems to me like it should cost more than it does- good signal transfer, solid chassis and knobs, good tight jacks. The function is pretty simple- run your mic into the xlr input, run another xlr from the output to your mixer/preamp. Run a line from the mixer back to the "monitor input" jack. The idea is that you can then hear the mix but raise and lower your vocal in that mix. This will power headphones nicely, but will not power a passive monitor, so if you're planning on using it to run a wedge, you will need a powered wedge. This is also not a power amp for running speakers nor is it a guitar preamp / DI box and will not work for those applications. Overall a good solution for monitoring, especially in a studio where a vocalist needs to adjust her/his voice in headphones.

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Great item to give live performance feedback. Worth the money!

Prova kayıt stüdyomda kullanıyorum, 4 tane aldım. Pasif Mixer out a bağlayacaksanız ve XLR ile çıkış alıyorsanız; Başlangıçta Mixer AUX seviyesini -10db /-15db seviyesine alın. Diğer türlü sesler distorte duyulur. Biraz fazla dip ses mevcut.

Great device. Very usable. Clean and quiet

ギターボーカル時のイヤモニ用に使ってます。シンプルな構造なので使いやすいです。PAさんにも説明が簡単です。