mackie srm150

[bcastle]

So I've ordered a mackie srm150 personal monitor for our pianist with the intent of allowing her to have some volume control on the stage without messing up my main speaker levels. It says it can be used as a di box, ie plug in piano directly to speaker then main out to my xlr floor jack then to my mixer. OR I can use it as a stand alone powered monitor where i send an aux send to it. I can hook up up either way easily enough seeing as i currently have a di box near her and an accessible floor box too. I also currently have an existing un powered monitor that is on the floor strictly for her. My main problem is she likes to increase the piano volume if she feels that she can't hear herself enough in the monitor during the praise and worship. Ergo this monitor should fix it.

My intuition is if I use this speaker as a di box (i'd really like to replace the behringer one we have anyways) and she adjusts the volume on the speaker it will somehow adjust the level sent to the board thus increase or decrease my mains level. Knowing that her normal monitor has only her coming out of it should i simply just plug this in as a monitor so i can let her adjust the volume with out any level change in my mains.

I already read the online manual. It didnt really help. So i have to draw off of experiences from what I and others have already done

[bcastle]

after checking out the flow chart at the end of manual it appears that the thru jack which would go to my mixer is only affected by the gain knob, not the gain AND main volume. As long as the gain is set and left alone, she can adjust the main volume to her hearts content. I've never dealt with a monitor that has mixing capabilities. Looks like I can use it either way, But if I use it as a di box, i can free up an aux channel for my drummer. whoo hoo.

Anyways let me know how you guys are running this speaker in a contemporary church environment.

Thanks