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Good morning everyone!! I have a behringer x32 console, and 8 p16 monitors. Our church is a live sound and we have an enclosed drummer, bass guitar, two electric guitars, acoustic guitar, two electric pianos and 6 vocalist, two being the leads, and finally two extra mics for our pastor and a guest speaker. Im trying to figure out if there is a way to stop pre fading going into the monitors in-ears... everytime i adjust the house sound it also changes the volume and or gives a feed back into the monitors. I been volun-told to serve and i love the opportunity. I have found that this is no easy task for anyone without previous schooling and or training. Through my two years of service I have not had any real training and only fix/mix the EQ. I have not been able to figure out how to clean up sound as well as I want in our lives atmosphere and want badly to understand and show confidence that I can adjust and correct issues as they come up. This being one of the harder issues I face as it gets the stage folks irritated as the tool they use is basically useless when I preform any tweeking of the system to better the sound of the house. Again, if you have any pointers or understand how I can correct this issue it would be greatly appreciated and helpful. Thank you for your time and help, God bless.

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Is it me or my gear? Countless recordings and live performances have used SM57 / SM58 $100 If you can't get a respectable capture into one of those mics. It's not the mic. Headphones -- unless someone is paying you 'I can retire now' money. You probably just need some basic cans. $200 Monitors -- Don't fall for the YT vids. Learn the monitors you can afford. I have heard killer mixes that were done on 6x9 speakers a guy ripped out of a car. He was a real musician / engineer. He had passion. 'All input devices (preamps - Audio interface) are the same'. Kinda. These days the cheap stuff is so good that if you don't push it most can't tell the difference. The thing is if you want character you want to push the pre so the expensive stuff wins. BUT .. you can go clean and then distort in the box. So... is it you? or your gear? Guitar finger squeaks ... I'm sure there is a plugin for that but TomoFugitaMusic can fix that for you. You won't like the discipline and neither did John Mayer. So what is my point? The best advice I have ever gotten, and it always seems to come from many respectable professionals. Stop spending money until you have something that you know for a fact will make a difference OR you are building a collection OR money is simply not an issue in your scenario. The thing you buy, even though considered better, might make you sound worse. Why? because you put a better mic in your less than adequate room because the new guitar amp is super responsive and your technique is inadequate because -- and this could be an expensive good thing -- oh, I thought I was ok but I have work to do. The ENTIRE WORLD is awaiting your new music that is raw, real, and creates an emotional experience for them.