Monitor Engineer Show Us Everything! | STYX Evan McElhinney Mixingt Tommy Shaw, JY, Todd Sucherman

This is a very powerful mixer, never seen this before. Wish to get to operate this type of console. Thanks for this content

This was awesome thank you! So much great information. I learned a ton

as a pro, this guy knows his shit. awesome

So very beautiful

Amazing what they do

great content sir! would love to see more about who is using Optogate!

So, i think i missed a bit. Where does the red wire go?

What a pro! Incredibly knowledgeable, great explanations, and his enthusiasm for his craft is infectious. Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

This engineer is awesome 👍 🎉🎉🎉🎉. you certainly know your stuff.

Holy crap! That dide knows what he's doing. Love that he just does what's right. The power cams punctuated that.

He could charge money for this explanation

Wow. Thank you. I've always wanted to ask these questions of a monitor engineer. Evan was so generous in sharing his time/info. Awesome video!

Wow! Awesome! So many insights to how and why. Pure Gold!

Ive done sound for our own bands locally my whole life. Im 60 now. Ive never heard of 80% of what he is showing us! The difference is 1970s to elon musk!

This man is a genius !!

Hardwork brings everything to simple.❤❤❤

"more spank." Love it.

The knowledge, the setup, the professionalism! Top notch!

That.....was.....awesome!

Came toto find out what it sounds like with in ear monitors, disappointed in the first 90 seconds. :(

you got 8 fingers, i need to see them all on faders right now...

What brand are those G multi pin connectors? Amphenol? I can't seem to find and would love to look into those.

Awesome vid

Wait till you get hit by an arcing, live, incoming, utility supplied leg, which never should have been an issue, and you’ll see why he takes the ground and neutral disconnect so seriously. I was untying a guest distro at my own house gig late one evening, and someone had stolen my Allen wrench for the lugs, so I was forced to use a large flathead screwdriver, as the hardware stores were closed. Knowing I would need to use that exact one again if I didn’t replace the Allen wrench before next tie-in, I went to place the screwdriver, carefully, holding the wooden handle, tip first, into the bottom of the box, which was simply a disconnect, not where all the breakers were. To this day I don’t know why this happened, maybe wet floor and my Doc Martens were too wet and I was sweaty, I don’t know, maybe the soles weren’t insulating enough, but that screwdriver jumped out of my hand at the last second as I was setting it in place, and welded across from the utility 120 leg to the chassis of the box. This threw me about 5 feet back into a wooden, double door closet with louvers, which housed a big transformer, knocking most of the louvers out of the doors, and left me feeling like a small herd of elephants stomped across the right side of my torso, shoulder, through chest, to my hip. My right leg never felt a thing. Weird. But the lights in the building were flickering and dimming and I could hear 60hz oscillating, and the screwdriver was seriously welded in place. A smack with a drumstick didn’t budge it. But a hard hit with a round base straight mic stand base did break it loose, after a few hits. Unreal. An odd experience. My right side hurt for a few days, but I was functional, with no pain from moving around at all, which was strange, compared to being sore and feeling like you just played a football scrimmage. Just generally very sore. And it just went away. I’ve gotten some “therapy” a few times since, but never that degree, which scared the crap out of me and got me to get a better grip on how AC power works, and it’s incredibly misunderstood. Dangerously misunderstood. The stories of musicians dying on stage are thankfully few. But when in doubt, meter your guitar strings and mic caps against neutral and ground and make sure that what should be neutral or ground actually are. I’ve seen an artist get thrown backwards into a double full stack after a small lightning strike jumped from the mic to his lips. My house gear was properly wired and grounded and it took a lot of convincing to establish that, since the artist immediately blamed the “house”. No mic cable should ever be able to be live. But what happens if the power cable from that old Fender amp is “repaired”, and the guy thinks that since it’s AC, polarity doesn’t matter? Well, without a complete circuit, hot is hot, and neutral is not, and neither is ground. When a circuit is made, like when a device is plugged in, neutral is now also energized, but ground SHOULD not be. The mic cap CAN be connected to the power ground, but generally is not, as the XLR ground pin usually goes through a transformer from mic to console, often at the snake split, unless the split has ground lifts on every channel, and the ground is lifted on that channel, which means no alternate route for current. If the amps power cable is mis wired such that the otherwise grounded bridge, tuners, and strings are now connected to the hot leg of power, the results can be bad. Where the person is not grounded, like with rubber soles being the insulator, the person cannot act as the completion of the circuit. But when they touch the strings, which are connected inadvertently to the line side of power, through the ungrounded, two prong power cable which was installed wrong, and then the person’s presumably wet lips touch or approach the mic, which is maybe now connected to neutral through the bonding bus bar, where the XLR ground has been “lifted” it is disconnected, removing a safe path. Now, the grounded mic cap, to mic chassis, to XLR ground, to equipment chassis, which is ultimately connected through the neutral to ground, completes the circuit, thereby bypassing the safeguards of a properly grounded system. Accidentally. AC connection polarity does matter, especially in certain circumstances. Which is why Ground Fault Circuit Interruptors are used in wet environments. They break the ground circuit if needed, where that very safety path could be the death path.

I’m getting t-shirts made which will say, “This is my THIRD rodeo”. I used to see stickers all around. In road cases that said, “safety third”. Funny.

Anyone knows what of equipement he using for testing the ears phone?

Why would you bake in subtitles into the video?
On top of that they're incorrect which makes it even worse that you can't disable them

Also, why did you push the camera to the side so you can't really see anything?
Maybe you should have filmed yourself instead of preventing a camera person from doing it

can you provide a link for those AMP G connectors?

Someone need to teach them at a hip hop concert. How to tune there stuff they the won that need help like big time . Because they be having way to much bass in there stuff . Or the place need to upgrade there speakers at there place for the hip hop event . I understand most places don’t have speakers on the out side . Like my events don’t not have it .

That was awesome

Don't the vcas change the channel level. and then affect all mixes

Just wow. Next level

Awesome dude, but you said at the start STYX was playing a show to 15,000 people, don't think they've played to that many in a really long time! Just saying.

Never knew a monitor land rig rundown we needed 🔥

This guy is sooooo dedicated, he's the real deal.

It’s changed so much from my days on the road as a keyboardist with Yatch Rock Bands. In 2 weeks I am leaving my hometown of San Luis Obispo California to visit my daughter during her New England gig as a Lighting Designer for concerts, she sits in the counsel with the sound engineer and loves what she does. I’m so freaking jealous. She’s 25 and I’m 63

A whole profession condensed into one video, thanks for sharing

you are a wizard! I work as a festival monitor/ patch engineer and feel like I'm good to work with . I mainly use pro2 or Ilive but you have just given me so many great tips even without having a digico to work with.

the days before this i try not to remember!!!! fuck me the amount of issues I've had with RF... wish we could afford the new auto scan systems

I'd love to get one of these guys to come to a show with my band and just lay their hands on my PA. Just to throw down some of that good juju... I have no doubt everything would improve 10000%

This is me giving girls that come over a tour of my studio. Only difference is they don't give a shit...

Do you guys realize this is a literal masterclass posted here for free from one of the most experienced touring bands in the world?!

how long between load in and soundcheck in a regular situation?

I am a 66 year old bassist for over 40 years and now I wish I would have decreased volumes of music by a few dBs over the years! This guy has a great attitude and good at explaining great basic information for both musicians and audio engineers!!! Great video!!!

Wth did I just watched

I’ve done both FOH and monitor engineering and I have to say monitors are twice as intense from a working standpoint. If you know, you know.