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Monitor World
Also: monitor beach · mon world
Monitor world is the mix position at the side of the stage where the monitor engineer works, building the mixes performers hear in wedges and in-ears. It sits stage-side (traditionally stage left) so the engineer can see faces and hand signals.
In practice
The console at monitor world mixes many outputs, not one: each performer gets a mix, plus cue wedges, sidefills, and drum fill. The job is conversational in a way FOH is not; monitor engineers watch performers constantly because a grimace mid-song is a mix note.
Smaller shows fold the job into FOH ("monitors from front of house"), trading a dedicated engineer for aux-send mixes from the house desk. The moment a show carries in-ears and RF in quantity, monitor world returns, usually with the racks of wireless beside it.
How you’ll hear it
"Ask monitor world to add click to mix six before the next song."
Related resources
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