To connect to a
speaker you need to use a heavier cable then you use for a
microphone lead or in mutliway cables unless specifacly stated. Before speakon connectors midrange gear used
XLR connectors with heavy duty cables.
If you don't want the
monitor mixer at the
stage you can put it with
FOH mixer.
You keep the
monitor amplifier backstage to drive the monitors.
If you have a multiway ( audio
snake ) cable coming from the
stage for your microphones it should hopefully have some
return line ( short for
return signal to
stage). If you do they will either have some
jack plugs or
XLR plugs. If it is
XLR's they will have the opposite sex to the
XLR's the microphones
plug into.
If you have
return lines then all you do is
send the signal from the
monitor mixer down one or more
return lines (depends on how many
monitor channels you need eg if the
amplifier is stereo you could run two separate mixes).
That is that. Even if you don't have
return lines but you have spare channels on your multiway then using adapters ( gender changers) you can still achieve the same thing.
The only way to have the
monitor amplifier at the
FOH mixing position is if you run
speaker rated cable to the
stage. The longer the run the more signal
power you loose.
Feel free to ask more questions if I haven't made it
clear enough.
