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Been with A for some time. Evolve A or move to B?

Hey guys! I'm coming to a point where I'm starting to feel like I should step up my mixing toolbox. I've had the Yamaha HS-50's for about eight years now. Since the beginning I have utilized a home theater subwoofer with them (don't flame, I was young and as I gained experience I used it almost exclusively as bad reference to listen to mixes that had a little more bass).

sound system install rental

I'm growing my sound-and-lights company and have an opportunity to install a small system into a local venue that's opening soon. I'm trying to determine how much to charge them for the system.

My initial thoughts are to figure this out based on 2 factors: how much the rental is, and how much i need to be paid for my work.

DI (Direct Injection) box quality matters!

I don't expect a big discussion here, but for the record, I was blown away by how much of a difference the quality of a DI box makes to the clarity of the audio signal. We have ProCo CB-1 DI boxes at our church and last night I took my Radial ProAV2 DI to a practice for comparison with an acoustic guitar.

Separate monitor mixer setup..

Quick questions... I know that some groups have separate monitor mixers on stage. Just curious, but how do they get the inputs of the FOH board and the monitor board to correspond? Where does the signal split? Would I have to run a cable from every channel from the FOH to the inputs on the Monitor mixer? Or does it go through the monitor board first? Just a little confused...