Observed arrival · 2026-10-23
BandEar puts personal monitor mixes on musicians’ phones
BandEar is free, open-source software that lets musicians mix their own in-ear monitor sound on their phones using a computer connected to a mixer or audio interface.
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◎Niche
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- For
- Bands using USB-capable mixers and personal in-ear monitors
- Worth noticing
- The v0.2.0 installers are unsigned; Windows and macOS require users to bypass first-run security prompts.
Field notes
The desktop app is the mixing desk: it builds a mix for each musician and includes processing, engineer limits, presets and saved sessions. The page also describes multitrack recording to separate WAV tracks and virtual soundcheck, which replays a take through the setup. A mixer is not required to try the described demo source, which plays eight generated channels.
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