a simple question about how to best use a monitor for live performance

[oldie]

I use a Mackie mixer to mix 2 vocals, piano and guitar, and I don't understand how to ensure the mix we hear using a floor monitor is the same as the house, when, on the mixer, each channel has its own aux1/mon send, meaning that the floor monitor will receive a blend of channel signals.

Is the way to solve this problem to simply take the signal out of the headphones jack and send this to the floor monitor speaker? Is this how it should be done?

thanks
dallas

 

[soft]

Hi oldie

One way would be to make a Y-cable that split your mixer output to your floor monitor + FOH.

Some mixer has Bus Matrix where you can assign the mix. You can simply assign every channel to Bus 1/2/3/4 and use 1/2 for FOH , 3/4 for Monitor.

The reason why most setup would use AUX as Monitor Send and Stereo OUT as FOH is so that a different mix can be created for each. Example: Monitor need more vocal feed so that musicians can follow the singer.

Which Mackie are you using?

 

[kongwee]

It is not really possible to let house and monitor to sound the same. There is a pre and post button for the aux that run into the monitor? If yes, switch to post and listen to that effect. Pre will run dry signal into your monitor. Post will run wet signal ( signal enter eq,pan,fader....etc out to aux). Some mixer has monitor out which actually tap from main out with it's own volume control.

 

[danial]

It is possible to let house and monitor hear the same mix.

As long as you patch your monitors into SUB grp 1/2 or 3/4 it is able to hear what FOH is hearing only a seperate faders is use to control your monitor which is SUB grp 1/2 or 3/4.

But the cons of using sub group for monitor is that when the sound engineers turns a specific channel softer (EG. GUITAR) it will be softer on your monitor foldback too.


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