question: What do musicians hear through the headphones when "acoustic" with a band?
comment: This is called a "monitor mix" and it can be whatever the performer wants. If they are singing it will almost always include their own vocals. If they are playing an instrument it will almost always include that instrument. Many performers will want to hear some of all the other instruments. When there is a drummer they will likely want some of the kick drum and the snare drum and maybe some hi-hat but usually not much else. Again this is 100% up to the wishes of the performer. Sometimes there will be a click track to help keep them in sync with any pre-recorded playback. Sometimes there will be verbal instructions telling them which song is about to be played back or reminding them of solos or bridges coming up in the song.
passages: Most of the material used for the band's fourth studio album was recorded on board the band's tour bus, during the US tours of 2013 and 2014. On that bus, 40 potential tracks were written but ultimately only 11 tracks made the final cut. The band had been travelling with a mobile recording studio during the length of the tour, a production strategy that many other artists have used as an efficient way of recording albums, with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio being one of the earliest examples of such. Lead singer Danny O’Donoghue stated about the album's recording process during the tour, "We’d come off stage and start recording straight away in a studio bus. Everything’s massive, everything’s larger than life on stage so when we hit the studio we wanted it to have that same impact". Guitarist Mark Sheehan also explained that "We come off stage and you can imagine the adrenaline is up there. You can smoke or drink it away, but with a studio there’s somewhere to expel that nervous energy". The 3 World Tour began in September 2012 and ended in July 2013.
   Casting Crowns' Mark Hall (lead singer) states that when he was a teenager, he heard a song being played with just a keyboard in the background. He liked that it sounded as if the singer was right there with him in that room. This is where "The Acoustic Sessions: Volume One" was born.
  
  Section::::Critical reception and accolades.
   Drummers generally want a blend of all of the onstage instruments and vocals in their monitor mix, with extra volume provided for bass drum, electric bass and guitar. Guitar players typically want to hear the bass drum, other guitars (e.g., rhythm guitar) and the vocals. Bass players typically ask for a good volume of bass drum along with the guitars. Vocalists typically want to hear their own vocals. Vocalists may request other instruments in their monitor mix, as well.
  
  Section::::Types.:Broadcast.
   In a SOS interview, Appapoulay described their process during recording sessions: "It was just Ben and myself and Richard and Tom. We would be in the room together, Ben’d be on his acoustic guitar in that little doorway bit with his mic, setting down the guides. I had guitar in the Fender Twin, drums just clean, and then the bass I put through the LA2A, because I love the way it warms it up. Then we were using the bass amp as well, because we had the whole band in one room — the control room was in the drum room that you see now — so we were jamming like in a rehearsal. It had a band feeling, like Motown, where they just used to sit in one room and record together. That was the idea with this place, I wanted the whole band to feel like it was a gig scenario, playing as a band."
   Section::::Commercial performance.
   IMV donates $.25 from the sale of each Behind the Player DVD to Little Kids Rock, an organization that gets instruments in the hands of underprivileged kids.
  
  Section::::Contents.
  
  BULLET::::- Behind The Player
  
  Robbie talks about his background, influences and gear, including rare photos and video
  
  BULLET::::- "Speak" by Godsmack
  
  BULLET::::- Lesson: Robbie gives an in-depth bass lesson for how to play the song
  
  BULLET::::- Jam: Robbie jams the track with Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin
  
  BULLET::::- VideoTab: Animated tablature shows exactly how Robbie plays the track
  
  BULLET::::- "Voodoo" by Godsmack
   Section::::Background and marketing.
   Section::::Monitor equipment.:Sub-Mixes On FOH Mixer.
  
  Pre-fader, pre-EQ
  
  Aux level sets overall volume
  
  Section::::Monitor equipment.:Monitor Mixer.
  
  May not have faders
  
  Cue mix for engineer
  
  Monitor mixes may be mono or stereo
  
  Built-in splitter
  
  Placement of the monitor mixer
  
  Monitorland
  
  Section::::Related products.
  
  Section::::Related products.:Headphones.
   Section::::Concerts and touring.
   Austrian drummer/clinician Thomas Lang has toured with Sonor's new designer x-ray acrylics to rave reviews for his playing, and for the sound of these drums. In 2010, Thomas Lang stopped endorsing sonor and moved on to DW drums.
   BULLET::::- Mike Cosgrove - Alien Ant Farm
  
  BULLET::::- Brain - Guns N' Roses (Uses DW kits live)
  
  BULLET::::- Stephen Perkins - Jane's Addiction
  
  BULLET::::- Longineu W. Parsons III - Yellowcard (Uses DW kits live and in studio)
  
  BULLET::::- Travis Smith - Trivium
  
  BULLET::::- The Rev - Avenged Sevenfold (Used DW kits live and in studio, also used PDP LXE for City of Evil)
  
  BULLET::::- Tony Thaxton - Motion City Soundtrack
  
  BULLET::::- Brooks Wackerman - Bad Religion
  
  BULLET::::- Yael - My Ruin
  
  BULLET::::- John Mennel - Clouds On Strings
  
  BULLET::::- Alex Ashtiani - Life Among The Living
   Section::::Cover art.
   Section::::Approaches.
  
  The instrumental playing by offstage performers is captured by a microphone for acoustic instruments such as acoustic guitar; by mic in front of the guitar amplifier and/or a DI unit output for an electric instrument such as electric bass, by mic for electric guitar (in front of the guitar amp) and Hammond organ with a Leslie speaker, or for an electronic instrument such as a synthesizer, by getting the signal from the instrument's output. Singing is captured by a microphone. 
   The conditions of work for guitar techs vary widely. Some guitar techs for small touring acts may set up guitars for all of the stringed-instrument performers—rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass, and so on; they may even take on a large variety of tasks beyond guitar tech work, such as helping to set up sound equipment or soundcheck the microphones. On the other hand, guitar techs for major touring bands may be part of a large road crew team that includes amplifier technicians, guitar technicians for each guitarist (rhythm guitarist and lead guitarist), and a variety of people who set up the stage equipment. In a major touring band, a guitar tech's duties might be more narrowly circumscribed. They might only have to set up the guitars for a single performer, and there might be other staff who set up and maintain the amplifiers, effects, and guitar stands, and electronics technicians who solder and repair connections and wiring.
   BULLET::::- U2's "One Tree Hill" on the album "The Joshua Tree" is dedicated to Greg Carroll, who was a stagehand in New Zealand. He joined The Unforgettable Fire tour, and after the tour he stayed in Ireland and became Bono's personal assistant.
  
  BULLET::::- Stuart Morgan, Adam Clayton's bass tech, filled in for the U2 bassist for a concert in Sydney in 1993.
   The band spent two days at Fisher Lane Farm in early August 2011 with producer Paul Corkett to record acoustic versions of nine tracks released on their self-titled debut album. Former member Laurie Ross returned to play cello at the sessions. The album's liner notes state "These versions and the speed with which they were recorded, represent a natural progression that comes from our familiarity with the tracks, having played them repeatedly throughout the course of our numerous live shows in 2010 and 2011".
  
  Section::::Release.
   The microphone is a standard USB microphone. Players can use most other USB microphones, while Xbox 360 users can substitute their console's headset if they wish, though the option to use a headset over a microphone is absent in "Rock Band 3" and "The Beatles: Rock Band". For the most part, singers are judged on how closely they match the relative pitch of the song's vocalist. During "talking parts" that do not judge pitch, a phoneme detector picks up individual vowels and consonants of the spoken lyrics, songs that contain unclean vocals (growled or screamed vocals) are also judged in this way. Some sections without vocals will display circle notes, allowing for the microphone to be used as a tambourine and cowbell by tapping it or making vocal cues. Overdrive for singers can be deployed by making a brief sound through the microphone during sections of songs, denoted by yellow artwork in the background of the vocals interface.
   BULLET::::- Jose Pasillas - Incubus (features PDP drums on the "Make a Move" video)
  
  BULLET::::- Scott Ellis - She Wants Revenge
  
  BULLET::::- Saul - Soul Opus
  
  BULLET::::- Chad Smith - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  
  BULLET::::- Eric "EPanda" Hernandez - Bruno Mars
  
  BULLET::::- Daru Jones - Jack White Band
  
  BULLET::::- Johnny Rabb - (Clinician/Drum 'n' Bass extraordinaire)
  
  BULLET::::- Jordan Jones - Evangel Life Center Worship Team
  
  BULLET::::- Gary "Zeus" Smith - The Fifth and Aittala (Uses PDP Concept Maple Custom live and 1st generation PDP CS series both live and rehearsal)
   Each of the studio albums have had an accompanying live tour, with each having its own unique live equipment setup. The equipment has changed from tour to tour, but has remained centered around Ableton Live.
  
  Section::::Musical style and equipment.:"A Cross the Universe" Tour.
  
  Production equipment:
  
  BULLET::::- an Apogee Ensemble Recording Interface
  
  BULLET::::- a Power Mac G5 computer
  
  BULLET::::- Cubase and GarageBand
  
  Live equipment:
  
  BULLET::::- a Korg RADIAS
  
  BULLET::::- three JazzMutant Lemur Input Devices,
  
  BULLET::::- two MacBook Pros running Ableton Live
  
  BULLET::::- a Korg MicroKorg
  
  BULLET::::- an AKAI MPD24
  
  BULLET::::- a Korg ZERO8
  
  BULLET::::- a Moog Minimoog Voyager
   In most mid- to large-size venues, there is a separate sound engineer and mixing console on or beside the stage creating a mix for the monitor system. The monitor mix is often different from the "front of house" mix, because performers may request to hear more of certain accompaniment or rhythm section instruments. In the most sophisticated and expensive monitor set-ups, each onstage performer can ask the sound engineer for a separate monitor mix for separate monitors. For example, the lead singer can ask to hear mostly their voice in the monitor in front of them and the guitarist can ask to hear mostly the bassist and drummer in their monitor. 
   Section::::Songs.
   Section::::Live sound engineering.
   Then Vince directs them to modify various parts and implement different materials, often absorbing a lot of the tooling costs in the process. Dynaudio, Seas, Scan-Speak, Vifa, Peerless, and many others are always willing to dedicate time to listen and partner with Vince on any project since he invariably raises their knowledge, capabilities, and reputation.
   "Acoustic Sessions" was released to generally positive reviews: In October 2010, the Canadian publication "The Globe and Mail" rated "Acoustic Sessions" its "Disc of the Week": "The album charms like a countryside circus. You wonder if the Hendersons will all be there, late of Pablo Fanque’s fair – what a scene, you bet." In the November 2010 issue of "Rolling Stone" a reviewer described their sound as "sunny" and psychedelic, and gave it a rating of 3.5 stars out of 5. A reviewer for NPR had the following to say about "Acoustic Sessions": "Listening to Acoustic Sessions is like stepping into a magical world where a smiling sun shines on fields of dancing flowers while winged creatures flit about in the fragrant air."
   "Acoustic Café" began taping sessions on the road in 2012, with sessions held at both the national Folk Alliance convention (2/12, Memphis, TN) and Midwest Regional convention (10/12, St. Louis).
  