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Using our PA speakers as monitors on stage.


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Some venues may have big PA’s, but in most cases… no monitors. Well, we always have our own PA at the back of our car while touring, so why wouldn’t we use it as an onstage monitoring system ?

Here is a loudspeaker, actually a sat from the LD System.

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A way to use sats as monitors could be that one :

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Ok, let’s try to figure out how to improve that without having to bring a whole case of books onstage !

A few leftover pieces of wood and screws, a couple of hours of calculations to design the right shape…

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Black painting should make it more nice-looking onstage :

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And the final result :

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Various tilts make it even easier to fit to various stage sizes :

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§ Yann