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3.4 Monitor Buses
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3.4.2 Creating Monitor Mixes
Creating custom monitor mixes is critical. If musicians can’t hear themselves or their
bandmates, their performances will suffer. A monitor mix can be mono or stereo.
Most often, an individual live monitor mix is mono and is sent to a floor-wedge or
sidefill monitor. (The obvious exception is in-ear monitor systems.) A studio monitor
mix is usually stereo because it is sent to a headphone amplifier that requires both a
left- and a right-channel input. In both cases, the function of the aux bus is the same.
As an example, let’s create a mono mix for Monitor Bus 1:
1. The Mon 1 send control for each channel sets the send level in the Mon 1
mix. Use these knobs the same way that you use the output level controls to
dial in your main mix. Ask your musicians what they would like in their
monitor mix and use their requests as a starting point.
2. Use the Mon 1 Output control to adjust the overall output level.
3. Press the Mon 1 AFL button to listen to the mix through the headphone or
control room outputs as you make final adjustments to the mix.