Today's Lesson

The TouchMix 30-Pro is more than capable of handling FOH and monitors at the same time. But sometimes there are situations when having two separate mixers is beneficial.

When mixing monitors from the same mixer as FOH, input channel processing like EQ, compression, noise gates and FX, will be shared between the FOH mix and the monitor mixes. In most cases this is totally acceptable. 

But sometimes you may work with bands who’s musicians are very particular about what they want to hear in their monitors, often asking for input processing changes that would not benefit the FOH mix. 

That’s exactly when using a second mixer just for monitors is advantageous. 

This is accomplished by using a signal split to send separate input signals to a dedicated monitor mixer and a dedicated FOH mixer.

The person running stage monitors can then tailor the musicians’ mixes so that they can hear exactly what they need to hear, and the FOH mix can be tailored to hear exactly what you want to hear.

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