Re: Mixing Monitors Onstage
It's an operational preference, and you're the operator. If you're more at home twisting aux send knobs, do it that way.
So the disclaimer: I'm mostly a system engineer and FOH mixer these days. When I first found the Yamaha M7 and the way the mix select/solo and sends on faders could work together, I saw a faster and better way to mix monitors than I'd had access to before.
20 years ago some poor souls thought I was a monitor guru. I got a fast education at their expense - and I think we all survived - but I greatly prefer to mix FOH. Other folks thrive on working directly with the talent in this rather intimate sort of way and I think their advice and counsel will be far better than mine.
And remember: Whatever ain't physics, is psychology.
Tim Mc
