At the church where I play, the band is positioned off center of the choir and behind the PA speakers. Brick wall and glass of the baptismal separate our position from the choir. To make matters worse the Leslie speaker is also between us and the choir and the organist/MOM plays extremely loud in my opinion.
Of course the result of this is that myself (guitar), the bass player who plays with us occasionally and the drummer cannot hear anything from the choir or lead vocalists. This has been a frustration for a long time...TOO LONG! The MOM shows almost no interest in changing anything. Any suggestion for making ANY changes is usually met with "so and so would never go for that". Like I said this is very frustrating so decided I will spend my own money on some 3-way 'inexpensive' monitoring system using headphones or in-ear phones.
Any suggestions?