Foh or Mons first?

Thanks for all the suggestions. Just to report back, I did try this last night on a 3-hour concert with a lot different people playing. It actually turned out to be very good. No body complained.

Because we have a lot of people swapping between songs, the individual instruments volume vary a lot. With post-fader, I don’t need to spend much time adjusting the monitors. I only need to focus on the FOH sound which I can hear, the monitors are automatically taken care of.

I guess sometime I just need think out of the box and try something new that may work the best for me.

Thst’s quite a different situation from ‘normal’ though

I’d probably be wanting to dial in the gain to a known level - and still have PreFade monitors, but that’s not always the optimum workflow.

Actually I’d be wanting to have a soundcheck with each act before the concert, and save each one as a different scene, but that’s unlikely in my world.