« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2016, 01:42:12 PM »
The setup on the side of the stage is typically for the monitor engineer (monitoring in-ears and/or wedges). This is different from the FOH engineer.
So why does the band these days set their sound guy up beside or on the stage? Because they do not know what they are doing.
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