Alesis studio24 Manual Do Utilizador

Route the MONITOR OUTS L and R jacks to the input of a stereo power
amplifier.
Usually, a 1/3 octave graphic equalizer is patched into the line to notch out feedback
frequencies. The Alesis M-EQ 230 is a perfect unit for this application.

Route the two speaker outputs of the amplifier to two different sets of stage
monitors.

Usually, some channels will have to be heard in both monitors. This requires
adjusting the monitor pan and level controls to taste.

The most popular and obvious application of the MONITOR 1/2 section to hear the
tape tracks in the control room or headphones while using the main faders for the
sources, during multitrack studio recording. But you should think of the MON 1/2
section as an independent, 16x2 mixer (8 inputs for Channels 1 - 8 and 8 inputs for
the four stereo Channels) with an effects send, like this:

At a major concert, feeds from microphones are often “split” so they can be sent to
two different consoles: a monitor mixer on stage, and a house mixer in the audience
(and, sometimes, a third console for multitrack recording). This allows engineers to
change the controls without affecting each other. Here are some examples of why
separate mixes are needed:

•  the recording truck needs to have microphones in the audience to record the

applause; but it would cause feedback if these microphones were sent to the PA
system.

 

•  the PA engineer needs to raise and lower levels during the show, with different

mixes for each song. But the multitrack recording engineer tries to set levels so
that each track is at the ideal maximum recording level for that track. (The
recording’s final mix levels will be set later, in a studio mixdown session.)

If you can afford several consoles and an expensive 2-way splitter box, good for you.
But if you think of the monitor section of your Studio 24 as if it were a separate mixer