monitors

[brad!]

If its a band you work with often, try to give them what they want, but if it is'nt, they'll get what theyre given and they should be grateful ** laughs out loud **!

 

Bass + Drums and Lead and Vox should be fine, but why not just tell the guitarist to pull his backline up however high he likes and just put vox through the 2nd pair of wedges (Depending on your FOH rig and if its big enough to drown out the onstage sound ofcourse!).

[Mr.Si]

but why not just tell the guitarist to pull his backline up however high he likes and just put vox through the 2nd pair of wedges (Depending on your FOH rig and if its big enough to drown out the onstage sound ofcourse!).

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That's not always a very good thing at all, in my experience. Especially on a smallish stage - because the idea of having vocalists is to hear them above the rest of the musicians and have them "forward" in the mix. If the backline is too high, it will very much be picked up in the vox mic's and then no matter how much you try turning up the vox mic's, you won't hear them clearly enough.

 

This is where doing smaller venues becomes a pain and very difficult, esp in Schools and church events where the band likes it loud but YOU need to get it to sound good on stage and FOH. Compromising here, with low on stage levels is the best thing you could do for the sound. (IMO)

 

Drums (esp the cymbals) are a nightmare too - they mask everything in their frequency range - esp vocals - Arghhh!

 

anyway, that's