Drummer Alex Van Halen had great difficulty hearing the other band members over all the noise of the stage louder monitors did not help.

In 1995, Jerry Harvey was Van Halen's touring monitor engineer, mixing their stage sound through stage wedges-powerful loudspeakers aiming at each of the musicians. In August 2008, Ultimate Ears was acquired by Logitech and operates as a subsidiary. The custom in-ear monitor company was founded by Mindy and Jerry Harvey in 1995 and it created a new market for custom IEMs which are now used by most of the world's top musicians. So whether you're using a UE Roll 2 or a UE Boom 2, you create a unified sound system.Ultimate Ears is an American custom in-ear monitor (IEM), speaker, and earphone manufacturer based in Irvine and Newark, California, United States.

If you really want to get involved, you can download the Ultimate Ears smartphone app that features equaliser settings and the ability to link more than one UE Roll 2 together.Ī 'Block Party' mode also lets a few of your mates sync their smartphones to it so they can queue up their own songs.Īnd a brand new PartyUP feature (accessible via the app) means you can sync up to 50 different UE speakers with each other.

There's also a 3.5mm headphone port for attaching non-Bluetooth gadgets. It charges via a microUSB port tucked away under a waterproof flap. Amusingly, it also comes packaged with its own tiny circular lilo so you can float it on a pool (or larger body of water) if you want. It's also IPX7-certified waterproof which means it can survive being dunked under water up to a meter for about 30 minutes before dying. Ultimate Ears has put a helpful bungee strap on the back of it so you can hang the speaker off things - which is actually really useful. Obviously, walls and suchlike will pose a problem. It's good for about 100 feet - depending on the environment.

The UE Roll 2 will pair with any Bluetooth-toting device you happen to have.

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