FOH / Mons Mixing / FOH Technique
FOH Technique
Gain staging, mic placement, EQ, and compression — the day-to-day technique that builds a clean front-of-house mix.
Gain Staging Setup Procedure
Setting preamp trim, faders, and padding correctly to avoid overdriving the signal chain.
Field guideMic Setup & Placement Field Techniques
Windscreens, shock mounts, phantom power do's and don'ts, and the open-mic gain-loss rule.
Field guideTuning a System with Graphic/Paragraphic EQ
Pre-EQ checklist plus the measure, correct, re-measure loop — with a high-pass filter reference.
Field guideCompressor/Limiter Setup Adjustments
Attack/release tradeoffs and a worked speaker-protection threshold/ratio example.
Field guideApparent Volume Level (AVL) Mix Priority
Where to start each instrument's level and EQ when you first bring a mix up.
Field guideStereo Miking Technique Reference
XY, ORTF, NOS, Blumlein, and MS — exact angles/spacing and mono-compatibility tradeoffs.
Field guidePer-Instrument Mic Placement Recipes
Where to start the capsule for ~25 source types, from lead vocal to steel drum.
Field guide