How do you all connect FoH plus stage monitor if you have Big Sky (or anything) in FX Loop? On Ax8, I have to choose either FX out to Big Sky or the stage monitor but not both in stereo? No point in having the Big Sky if I have to go dual mono to get one sent back into Axe8 for the FoH, and other directly to the stage monitor. And Big Sky only has a single stereo out. Only way I can see is putting Big Sky first in signal chain (not really an option) or adding a personal mixer in-line with Out1 to split my send to FoH and my stage monitor, thus leaving the FX-loop free for Big Sky. Is there a better way?
Edit: Looks like the simplest and clean high quality solution I have researched is a passive DI box to split the signal, and a stereo volume knob to sit inline on the monitor side. Then just crank the output1 on Ax8, use the stereo volume knob to set monitor in the desired range on demand during performance, and FoH relies on a pad from the DI box, and can still feed the stage snake with an XLR setup.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/JDIStereo
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ATTY
$400 plus cables/connectors/board mess on top of the cost of Big Sky... man that is an extra $850+ and board kludge just to get an extra 30% CPU on Ax8! Yuck. Am I over-thinking this or have I waded through this in a reasonable way?
The hillbilly way would be a couple of Y-cables and crawl around to back of the powered monitor to set levels in between songs... any risk of equipment damage or sound problems doing it this way?
