Live Monitoring Question

  • I'm playing on a big stage tonight where there will be a sound guy and house equipment. To this point, I've just used the Kemper with our own system and used my own wedge to monitor (going direct) my signal and the rest of the band. I'm sure they'll have a monitor there for me tonight. I could just ask for my entire mix through that...or I can bring my wedge and run the monitor out (with IR on) just to have my sound coming back at me. Would be more similar to a ream amp set up except my real amp is wedged in front and pointing up at me. Thoughts? Is this overkill? Most of you who play direct on large stages just roll with the house monitor for everything on stage?

  • You should run your monitor out to a separate channel then get that only back to your wedge. That way you can increase / decrease your volume during the gig and not affect the volume out front. Also this will let you EQ your own guitar monitor as well without affecting FOH.