points about Stage monitoring for performance

• your audience needs to hear you, and you need to hear yourself. 
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• In the early days of pop and rock bands it was common to provide only front-of-house (FOH) amplification, commonly mixed from the stage by a member of the band (who, of course, couldn't hear the FOH PA properly).
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• No-one is properly in control of what the audience hears.
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• progress has been made and we now recognise that it is essential to have the mix position at front-of-house, placed centrally amidst the audience area
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• Stage monitoring is taken very seriously by top professionals, and should be by anyone working in live performance, right down to pub gig or theatre foyer level