Creating a headphone monitor mix.

[keeverw]

Hey guys,
Quick question.

Here is what I'd like to do and if you know how to do it, can you please explain.

I am using my M3 at church, and we have about 6 different monitor mixes that come to a rack on stage, and then from the patch box they connect to wireless IEM transmitters, each set to a different channel, and everyone wears wireless IEMs.

I prefer wired IEM's and also if I want more of myself in my monitor mix, I'd like to be able to turn a knob and make it happen without bugging the sound guy.

What I did before purchasing the M3, I used a MainStage setup on a MacBookPro, and I had a Motu MicroBook interface.
I ran the output from the patch box to my interface instead of the IEM transmitter, and then I used CueMix to mix that signal (a full band mix) with my keyboard signal, and I could balance the two to my liking.


I since bought an M3 and ditched my MainStage setup entirely. It was too buggy, and not reliable. (Though it sounded amazing)

So now I'd like to run the house mix into a line-in on my M3, It's a mono signal btw. And then mix it with my M3 sounds to a seperate output from the main outs. That way the you only hear my M3 through the Main outs, but you hear the M3 and the monitor mix through my headphones.

Is this possible?

I tried this at home using my iPhone plugged into Line-In #1, and I went to the global audio tab and set line in to go to Main LR, then I could hear it in the headphones mixed with my M3, but the problem with that is I don't want the monitor mix going through the Main LR.

So then I assigned the Input to Outs 3/4, and that worked. BUt then I couldn't hear the M3 on 3/4. I could only hear my iPhone.
So then there is a setting on the bottom of that screen that says something to the effect of assigning the M3 to another output, and I changed that to 3/4, then I could hear the M3 on outs 3/4, but my iPhone dropped out.

Is there a way to mix the two together to one output, preferably stereo, but it wouldn't have to be?


If I can't do this, I have already looked into a small monitor mixer that will do the trick. But I'd rather do this within the M3 if possible, to have one less thing to have to set up and take down.