Jul

Monitor Mixer Controller Foot Pedal

Often times it would be nice to adjust the monitor mix on the fly… but alas, the monitor engineer can’t read minds, and I’ve never seen a on stage talkback microphone just to the monitor engineer. Of course a talkback mic isn’t much help if one is a vocalist either. The end result, levels are pretty much static during an entire song. The only exception being if one works out some type of hand signals with the monitor engineer.

In my situation… I dont have a monitor engineer, and often times its a challenge enough to handle page turns, much less run over to the monitor console to adjust the mix.

One concept… a foot pedal controller to adjust monitor levels.

Some features:

foot pedals to increment or decrement individual channel levels
highlighted LED bars with user customizable overlays indicate to the user which channel is being adjusted
a middle foot pedal which serves to select the appropriate channel to adjust
no master volume control on the pedal board, as that is set once at the main amplifier… ideally only individual levels would need tweaking. I may need to rethink this a bit. (its only a software and overlay mod)
output is digital only… in keeping with minimally invasive audio, I want to keep multiple audio signals off the stage floor as much as possible. (likely the data will be midi sysex messages to control a midi mixer)
a LED bargraph meter to provide feedback as to current level setting