Did my first live show with SAC yesterday, with a small 3 day festival as my test victim. I expected it to be a learning curve and all in all things went extremely well on day 1. I'm happy with everything as a FOH engineer, but I realized as soon as I started soundcheck what had been lurking in the back of my mind all along but not surfacing...the monitor interface.
Monitorworld was completely blind to all mixes save the one currently being adjusted! No big deal if it's all ears, but picture last week: 14 wedge mixes & side fills with only lead vox wearing ears. I'm glad I test fired on an 8 mix show instead. But as things evolved onstage, it was quite cumbersome to need to use the tab at the top to switch between several monitor consoles when balancing changes across several mixes while still unable to see the others.
Is there not a 'master' monitor console--the ocean of auxes that views and addresses all monitor mixes from one console? Is it already in there & I simply didn't manage to find it, or maybe in the 'coming soon' department?
Everything else I looked for is so well thought out, and glorious, that I'm sure there is a better way that I'm just not seeing...
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