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<blockquote data-quote="Chris Wadden" data-source="post: 106287" data-attributes="member: 2583">Tip about FX in monitorsHey everyone, I wanted to share a tip I just figured out about putting FX into monitors. Now I agree with most that putting FX into monitors is simply a bad idea. It can easily throw off pitch and timing. I always urge my clients not to have it. Most end up taking my word for it, so it hasn&#039;t been much of an issue. However, I&#039;ve been working with a specific client recently who has always had just a touch of reverb in his wedge, and refuses to work any other way. The problem I ran into was the fact that by default, the FX returns sends are all set to post fader. At this particular gig a few weeks ago, I was using the reverb very dynamically for different parts of their songs, bringing the return up and down in the LR via a DCA. At set break, my client complained that his FX level was constantly changing in his wedge and was confusing him. (I did quickly throw out the, &quot;and that&#039;s why it&#039;s not a good idea there guy-man&quot;) but this dude is set in his ways. So I thought about a different way to go about it. First I considered simply changing the sends from the return to Pre-Fader. However, the vocal channel send would still be post-fader, so if I manipulated his channel, it would still change his wedge. What I ended up doing was changing the channels sends going to FX 1 and 2 to Pre-Fader, and keeping the returns in Post-Fader. I then dedicated FX slot 1 (simply didn&#039;t use 2) as a reverb for his monitor. Once I set how much dry signal he had, I then sent a small amount of reverb via the return fader. Now whatever I would do to either channel fader, or FX 3 + 4 (now only used for LR) would not effect his monitor. He was super happy with the second set and said the problem was completely fixed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chris Wadden, post: 106287, member: 2583"] Tip about FX in monitors Hey everyone, I wanted to share a tip I just figured out about putting FX into monitors. Now I agree with most that putting FX into monitors is simply a bad idea. It can easily throw off pitch and timing. I always urge my clients not to have it. Most end up taking my word for it, so it hasn't been much of an issue. However, I've been working with a specific client recently who has always had [I]just a touch[/I] of reverb in his wedge, and refuses to work any other way. The problem I ran into was the fact that by default, the FX returns sends are all set to post fader. At this particular gig a few weeks ago, I was using the reverb very dynamically for different parts of their songs, bringing the return up and down in the LR via a DCA. At set break, my client complained that his FX level was constantly changing in his wedge and was confusing him. (I did quickly throw out the, "and that's why it's not a good idea there guy-man") but this dude is set in his ways. So I thought about a different way to go about it. First I considered simply changing the sends from the return to Pre-Fader. However, the vocal channel send would still be post-fader, so if I manipulated his channel, it would still change his wedge. What I ended up doing was changing the channels sends going to FX 1 and 2 to Pre-Fader, and keeping the returns in Post-Fader. I then dedicated FX slot 1 (simply didn't use 2) as a reverb for his monitor. Once I set how much dry signal he had, I then sent a small amount of reverb via the return fader. Now whatever I would do to either channel fader, or FX 3 + 4 (now only used for LR) would not effect his monitor. He was super happy with the second set and said the problem was completely fixed. [/QUOTE]

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