Newbie Choir Monitor Questions

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Forgive me if these questions are naive, stupid or both. Our choir is currently singing with no monitors. I'm sure it is difficult since all they can hear is what comes from the side of the house speakers (overhead mounted-big old sanctuary-high ceilings). They (choir) are 2 rows deep, slightly elevated with a knee wall in front of them and a massive pipe organ behind them. Snake runs from an older 24ch Mackie mixer to the choir.

My thought is to use an aux send (back through the snake) whatever they want to a powered monitor(s) on the kheewall and let them control their own volume.

Questions:

Is this the right way to get a signal back to choir loft?

Dangerous to give choir the volume control?

Equipment recommendations?

Thanks for any comments.

[cmchamp]

What accompaniment do they sing with?

[cmchamp]

If you are NOT feeding choir mics back to the monitor system, then
1: yes, but the closer to ear level, the better. If each choir member can't see the monitors, they won't hear them clearly either.
2: don't give them their own volume control.
3: really not sure there are any active options that would look acceptable on a knee (modesty) wall.
3a: you'll need some EQ or DSP processing for the monitor feed.

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It varies, but most often to prerecorded media from a CD (which I control from the mixer) or an electronic keyboard also located in the choir (that runs through the mixer as well). Occasionally it's the pipe organ, but come to think of it nobody ever complains about not hearing IT!

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I could mount monitors near the top (but behind) the modesty wall, and the choir is only in two rows. This way something ugly would stay hidden to the congregation, and hopefully still be useful to the choir? Anything would be better than what we have. Thanks for the ideas.

[cmchamp]

Small active options

ElectroVoice ZXA1

RCF HD10A

RCF ART 310A

Behringer B201D

Behringer B210D

Yorkville E10P

Yorkville CX80P

Yorkville Coliseum C170P

These are what I'm familiar with for active options with a small footprint.

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Thanks for the help and suggestions.