EQ for monitors

[alienate]

This question has to do with a live sound setting.

I have a set of monitors that are on stage. The place where I'm at has a control
room on the top floor. I have my monitors inserted to an Aux channel for a separate
mix but I want to be able to ring out frequencies so I can minimize
feedback on stage. There is a graphic EQ in the control room and the first channel
is for the speakers. I want to use the second channel for monitors.

My question is: how can I insert the monitors to the EQ?

• The monitors on stage are daisy chained
• they are patched in on the stage's snake sends input and sent into Aux 1 on mixer

I heard instead of patching into the aux input on the mixer, to patch it IN the EQ
and come OUT into the Aux? could this work?

Note: i hope I'm making sense and hopefully I'm using the correct terminology. I would appreciate it if anyone helps me out on this. Thank You

 

[bouldersoundguy]

Actually, it helps to think, write and speak in terms of signal flow. Instead of thinking from the output (speakers) back to the source (mixer) think from the source to the output. The output of the mixer goes to the input of the eq, the output of the eq goes to the snake, the snake goes to the speaker. I'm assuming they are powered speakers unless there's a power amp you forgot to mention.

You'll need one extra cable. Move the snake send that's connected to the aux out of the board to the eq's output, patch the extra cable from the aux out of the board to the eq's input. It would be best to keep all line connections balanced.

 

[alienate]

thank you for your reply! and i will take your advice in signal flow
you answered my question and I thank you!