This is very distracting to performers and “ties” their monitor mixes to the house mix- defeating your intent in the first place.
If you use a post-fader send from the console (5), then every time a vocal fader is adjusted for the house mix, the vocal level in the monitors will also change. Note the position of the prefader send (3) relative to the main channel fader (4). This is a critical detail because it means that the monitor mixes will not change when the faders are adjusted for the main “house” mix. (Think of these as audio “valves,” as I explain below.) Monitor mixes should be generated using pre-fader sends from the mixing console.
A monitor system provides easy communication between the monitor engineer and musicians separate mixes between house and stage systems, with individual mixes for each musician and high gain before feedback in the monitors so that the monitor level can be raised above the volume of the band.įigure 1 shows a simplified signal-flow diagram of audio passing through a mixer channel the circles with arrows represent trim controls or faders.
