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<blockquote data-quote="Paul Johnson" data-source="post: 216939" data-attributes="member: 2643"><p>This means the main point of monitors has been totally misunderstood. In my band, we all played and we all sing close harmony. We have a man out front who passes the lead vocal from person to person. I sing a line, then the keys guy takes the lead for the first chorus, then the drummer does the second bit and so on. In the monitors, my monitor (we actually use IEMs) has me, my bass, the keys and the keys vocals. No guitar - no drums and their voices there, but low. The drummer does not want my voice at all, but he likes the guitar loud in his ........ and so on. Whatever the audience hear is NOT what I want to hear. If it's a chorus and I'm aaah-ing quietly in the mix, I need to know my aaahs are in tune. </p><p></p><p>Some bands could work with the mix in the monitors, but they would also be the kind of band that has a mix preset that doesn't change. Do you never have the everyday request for more of this and less of that? Once you have had it, you never go back to what is just a shared mix. The point of the multiple monitor sends from each channel is to create personal, separate and different mixes. You also want them to be pre-fade, so bringing down a desk fader for the audience does NOT drop it out the monitors. In emergencies I've tagged into the PA mix, but that is a huge compromise, and of course means feedback is more likely when things get loud.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paul Johnson, post: 216939, member: 2643"] This means the main point of monitors has been totally misunderstood. In my band, we all played and we all sing close harmony. We have a man out front who passes the lead vocal from person to person. I sing a line, then the keys guy takes the lead for the first chorus, then the drummer does the second bit and so on. In the monitors, my monitor (we actually use IEMs) has me, my bass, the keys and the keys vocals. No guitar - no drums and their voices there, but low. The drummer does not want my voice at all, but he likes the guitar loud in his ........ and so on. Whatever the audience hear is NOT what I want to hear. If it's a chorus and I'm aaah-ing quietly in the mix, I need to know my aaahs are in tune. Some bands could work with the mix in the monitors, but they would also be the kind of band that has a mix preset that doesn't change. Do you never have the everyday request for more of this and less of that? Once you have had it, you never go back to what is just a shared mix. The point of the multiple monitor sends from each channel is to create personal, separate and different mixes. You also want them to be pre-fade, so bringing down a desk fader for the audience does NOT drop it out the monitors. In emergencies I've tagged into the PA mix, but that is a huge compromise, and of course means feedback is more likely when things get loud. [/QUOTE]
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