Thanks for the good blog, been lurking here for a while.

I’m a very experienced mon engineer and have been working as the house mon guy with quite a few international touring bands with good success. But as I’m living in an area where I really can’t get any reference points to how a world class crew should work, it would be nice to have at least one opinion about it.

We try prepare in advance as well as possible and we do whatever it takes to keep the visiting crew happy. But there are probably quite a few things we haven’t thought about as we haven’t toured the world ourselves or seen what is considered “standard practice” at your level in the US.

Could you post an entry that would describe your dream local crew/mon eng/sys tech/whatever? How they should be prepared? What do you expect from them?

Have fun touring this side of the pond,

I was also thinking that I would enjoy equipment details when I read your itinerary posts/blogs. Glad you posted some.

So what do these varied crews/providers use for system optimization, both mons and FOH ?

Thanks for keeping this site up and stay safe-

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