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<blockquote data-quote="Mitch Miller" data-source="post: 5796" data-attributes="member: 2673">My apologies for this particularly elementary question. The forum description said &quot;hobbyists&quot; and that describes me, so I figured this is the right place. I&#039;m looking to set up an area for my son and his band to practice, but something that would give them more of an on-stage experience with wedges for the vocalists and possibly IEMs for the bass, guitar and drummer. If all goes well, I hope to be using an X32 to mix with. The actual question is about driving the wedges. Since it&#039;s my first entry to this area, I&#039;m wondering if it&#039;d be advisable to purchase active monitors that could also double as house speakers for smaller venues where I may not need the &quot;works.&quot;If powered monitors are a huge no-no, then my question is about using power amps. Most of the ones I&#039;ve seen have two channels, presumably most often used as a stereo pair. When being used as power stage monitors, can I use a single amp&#039;s two channels to power two separate mono monitor mixes? Or, should I buy smaller amps, bridge them and drive each set of wedges fro a separate amp? Thanks for the guidance. --Mitch</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mitch Miller, post: 5796, member: 2673"] My apologies for this particularly elementary question. The forum description said "hobbyists" and that describes me, so I figured this is the right place. I'm looking to set up an area for my son and his band to practice, but something that would give them more of an on-stage experience with wedges for the vocalists and possibly IEMs for the bass, guitar and drummer. If all goes well, I hope to be using an X32 to mix with. The actual question is about driving the wedges. Since it's my first entry to this area, I'm wondering if it'd be advisable to purchase active monitors that could also double as house speakers for smaller venues where I may not need the "works." If powered monitors are a huge no-no, then my question is about using power amps. Most of the ones I've seen have two channels, presumably most often used as a stereo pair. When being used as power stage monitors, can I use a single amp's two channels to power two separate mono monitor mixes? Or, should I buy smaller amps, bridge them and drive each set of wedges fro a separate amp? Thanks for the guidance. --Mitch [/QUOTE]

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