Monitor volume best practice?

  • Just had my first Kemper gig last night and it went very well. It got my wondering about something. I have Main Volume locked at -18db going XLR to FOH. Worked great. I'm using Monitor out to a powered Mission Engineering Gemini 2 amp. For sound check, I found myself fiddling with the volume level on the Gemini rather than the Kemper. Don't know why. I think in the rush to get set up that's just what I did. Anyway, it sounded great and after a song or two we had it dialed in. When all was said and done monitor volume was at -3.7db and the Gemini was about maybe 3 out of 10 on it's knob.


    Is there a best practice around this? For example, Should I set the Gemini at say 5 out of 10 or even higher and have the Kemper monitor out closer to that -18db number?


    Thanks