Reply To: Foh or Mons first?

[Anonymous]

Generally I’ll set up monitors first – then the musicians are happy, and I can get on with FOH.

I’ll do gain structure, try to get the ‘loudest’ down to -18dB or so (where 0dB is digital full range) for decent headroom. [desperately trying to remember what the scale is on the QU – peaking into the yellow]…

Then monitors and FOH play after that… Musicians first, audience next (since they’re not there yet)