Nail the live show with stage monitor tips from Mitch Gallagher! 🔊

2 yrs later and the video is still helping beginners. Thank you so much

I always appreciate when Sweetwater does videos like this. I am a local musician and music producer near Indianapolis and have years of experience with this kind of thing, but for those just starting out or those without much experience, these are great learning tools to get going! Thanks for these informative videos and please keep them coming so that music can live on!

Seeing the visual description on how to use the aux knobs, left to right for mixes, and the channel strips, that alone was priceless.

I've always wondered if Mitch sounds like this in every day conversation! Thanks a bunch for the info! Got a band and a budget PA and this was good to know.

Thanks Mitch! All the gigs I’ve done, we’ve always played clubs with sound systems so I’ve never had to deal with this. It’s good to know for the future just in case.

Simple, straight forward and excellent explanation! Very easy to understand and apply. Thank you!

I totally agree. I've been following their videos for a while now and they are very clear and educational. I've learned alot with their videos. Thanks saltwater. Cheers and regards from Buka Island, PNG.

This is fantastic! Great video. Clear, concise, precise. You make all of this very clear. Thanks.

What a great explanation of setting up monitors! I'm still new to doing sound and this certainly helps out a lot! Cheers!

I have been looking for a video about this for SO long. I am so glad I found this! Thank you so much for the information! :) Passive speakers for monitors here we go!

This video explained and clarified so many things, looking forward to put it in practice, Thanks!

Bro Sweet water should do more Instructional videos like this! They are so helpful.

Simple , clear explanation Mr.Gallagher is a perfect choice to be educated

Legit on of the best videos explaining stage monitors!!! This is a time saver 🙌🏽

He did ok to a point, but you really need to RING in the monitors before any live show! For that you need an EQ in the signal path.

Thank you Sweetwater and Mitch. That was very helpful.

Very informative, I needed this, thanks Mitch, from Dublin, Ireland

Great explanation of on stage setup. Thank you 🙏🏻

Nice demo thanks for the update 👍

Thank you so much! very informative!

Very informative video. Much appreciate.👍

That is the explanation of external EQ to power amp of monitor speakers... Thank you...

Well done! You explain it very well.

Thank you sweetwater this what i needed

Wow!!! Amazing!!! Learnt a lot...Thank you so much

wow this is a superb demo

thank you ! this a very clean and easy to understand video. :)

Thank you!!! As easy as I hoped 💫 💫💫💫

I used stage monitors for the first time last Saturday because I’m just in a highschool cover band, and it was awesome. However, the sound guy didn’t have any instruments in it, but it was nice to be able to hear the vocals more easily.

Thanks so much, really appreciate this

Wow just bought 2, very timely advice for me !

This video was extremely helpful👍

Very well explained - Thank you

The eq placed after the aux send and before you power amp to monitor is very useful. Can really help control feedback and shape your sound for an excellent monitor mix.

Thank you Thank you so much sir for your packaged information

great video monitors are really inported with live sound thanks for info

Thank you. Really useful

Great Mitch! Thanks

Wow, very clear explanation. Well done sir and thank you so much. Keep more quality tutorial videos. From a new subscriber. Cheer's.👍

Little addendum for all performers that are instrumentalists and vocalists at the same time: To sing in tune or to be able to follow someone else to sing harmony, you need to hear the vocals in your monitors well. So the overall „daisy chained“ mix isn‘t what you‘ll want. For a four piece band you‘ll probably want 4 monitors (or in ear systems) and a mixer with 4 auxes. And today it is well worth looking at digital mixers that are remotely controlled by laptops, tablets, and even smartphones. With the latter and individual monitors each artist can adjust his vocal volume with his or her phone with the flick of a finger. Soundcraft for instance calls this feature „MoreMe“. 😊

Super explained

This is a Pro quality video. Thanks

Good xplainations.

Thank you

Thank you!

thanks

Great video

I like your presentations they are very clear . One thing that seems odd to me is why so many small to medium mixers/powered mixers have only one to two aux outputs ? Especially now days with all the amp modeling gear and electronic drums . There should at least be 3 . One for lead singer , one for left stage one for right . And with electric drums having a fourth would be great. All with chanel levels so each one can have a custom mix. I get it if you are playing a tiny place with acoustic drums. You usually only need one for the singer . But if you play a medium size club , it should be at least 3 aux outs .

I really appreciate everything you said. You speaking quite fast for a beginner to follow and the visuals are not close enough to see on your mixer.

Thank you sir

I love this guy

I love you guys ❤️

Any videos of this setup but using snake cables or stage box? I wana know how monitors are connected on the the snakes to the mixer

Exellent sir😊

The active solution also means if you daisy chain inputs and outputs you of course don't have as much independence for specialized output options from the mixer.

There is an error in the presentation at 5 and 1/2 minutes when speaking of long speaker cables. The resistance of the speaker cable adds up in a long run and is in series with the speaker. As the speaker is a dynamic load, some frequencies have a higher current draw and others have less as the speaker is a complex impedance. This makes losses vary with frequency. For 8 ohms it is best to keep cable under 50 feet and for 4 ohms, under 25 feet to keep the loss at a minimum. On the other hand, the signal out to an amp can be quite long with very little loss. The amp appears as a high impedance load on a low impedance source. Adding an ohm or two into 20,000 ohms typical makes very little change due to resistance. EG: what is the difference between 19992 ohms and 20.002 ohms? Now 100 feet for a speaker cable of 14 AWG is .00288 per foot, so 100 feet is 0.288 ohms. This is per conductor, so a round trip in a 50 foot cable is 100 feet of series wire. Now back to your 4 ohm load. What is the difference between 4.00 and 4.288 in percent loss? Put your amps as close as possible to your speakers and use as short of speaker cable as possible.

Thanks for this, please do a video on connecting passive subwoofers with active speakers

I'm pretty sure connecting speakers in series increases their impedance. It's parallel connections that decrease it.

Any chance you could elaborate on the monitor EQ?

adding to the info, on active you are not adding speakers to drop down impedance yes? but you adding more power sucking because of its built in power amp so if you add one or two more power amps you're risking the source of power Ampers but if you are lucky you can getaway with it. While on Passive speakers.. Connecting two speakers on one channel not a problem but adding more speakers from two speakers it's a different story but still possible as you can go series connections, not as loud thou but it will do the job for just monitors.

Do the effects route into the auxes?

Yo Dude, very good job explaining and demonstrating how things work setting up stage monitors but, what about stacks to the side as monitors to allow the sound to be more present to the stage

Cable runs and the guage of the wire change the impedance as well right?

Hello guys. I have a question. Which series of JBL speakers is the best? If possible can you do a video showing us the advantages of each series.

Amp recommendations for a Audio Centron 15" wedge monitor?

Thank you so much. Just realized what I did wrong.

You didn't show it, but I presume you unplugged the daisy chain cable from the first monitor when you hooked up to aux 2 send to the second monitor, I needed to ask the question, thanks

Hi which cable to use connect mixer & stage monitor & other speakers pls put video

Please suggest top active stage monitor-1000 RMS watt.

Which is the best monitor active vs passive monitor

He forgot to mention disconnect the daisy chain jumper when running two separate mixes.

How do we do different mixes using more than 2 aux sends

What is room send, same with aux send? I have both on my mixer

Do I need balanced cable or unbalanced cable? what's the type of aux send socket?

1 ur connected at 3:55 both monitors and aux 2will be how can connected sr

too fast. a closeup of the aux knob is missing. But still I learned something here. TQ Sweetwater, youre so sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

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Question,how to send exects in active monitors(reverb,delay),usualy at gigs PA guy gives you monitor but there is no efects in them,i am talking about clubs,amateur gigs?

👍👍 Nice

Hello sir can you please make a video of pencil mic best position with monitor to get rid of feedback

Won’t some channel strips have active EQ’s already, without the need to bus any signal in front of the aux sends?

Thank you for such a great info. I have one question, if I use a wired IEM setup (with a headphone amp like Behringer MA400 in my pedalboard), can I connect it to the nearest floor monitor on stage?

How would placement of these monitors work when dealing with a choir who use a backing track where you're using cardinal pattern pencil mics? For creating a good master recording I want to avoid as much sound bleed from the monitor as possible whilst maintaining a good dynamic range of the choir.

If you have 3 monitors can you daisy chain all 3???

Dude you can run balanced XLR line level signals hundreds of feet without loss, distortion or picking up interference. You don’t need to be running “speaker cable” for that.

Why not use group out put for monitors

I have a yamaha stagepass with a monitor cable outlet but the pa system won't power the passive speakers through the ones labled for monitor. It only powers it through the main jacks. Why is that?

After setting up the stage monitor and adjusting the aux volumes. Will the effects such as reverb work through the floor monitors also ?

I have a question? I'm using two passive monitors and two passive main speakers. The mixer has one aux send. My question is, do I need two amplifiers (one for the main speakers and the other for the stage monitors)? If not then how do I go about connecting both main and stage monitors to the amplifier to the mixer?

I was going to watch this video, but then I remembered Sweetwater can’t even wrap cable

Can we connect active speaker and power amplifier at a same time

Come to think of it, I have never once used active monitors. Is that just a convenience thing, one less thing to set up? Or are actives significantly cheaper than buying a separate monitor and rack unit?

Clean power , conditioned power all change things even in the studio your only as good as your power and wiring.

I have an old Peavy 400SC power mixer that is driving 2 main (8 ohm) speakers from one channel and would like drive 4 monitor speakers from the other channel. From what I understand about impedance, each monitor would need to be 16 ohms. Monitors are typically 8 ohms. Is it possible to add some type of crossover network and still be able to hook up 4 - 8 ohm monitors in parallel?

Maybe this is too advanced for this video, but it is crucial . If you insert an eq to get rid of feedbacks , don‘t take it too far. Learn the point where taking out more frequencies doesn‘t make any sense and this is just the „ this is as loud as it gets“ point.

Quick question, we do not own a digital mixer, but would this work with in-ear monitors? Meaning, the same way you connect the stage monitors, would it be the same connecting the in-ear transmitter?

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I use an eq with my monitors. Musicians are deaf and want them loud.

Could have been so much better with zoom cos im so ignorant where to ut cables in pretty pls haha