The best thing to do if you're playing with sequences or a click or something is to put everything on a multitrack recorder. That way, you can assign things to go to the PA to get put in correctly.
My last band had:
Track 1: Click
Track 2: Synth Bass or low end sounds
Track 3: Drum tracks
Track 4: Aux high end synth sounds or pianos
From the output of the recorder, we'd go into a rackmounted 4 input DI that would go right to the FOH, where the engineer could mix it as he or she saw fit. The thru outputs of the DI would go to a rackmounted mixer where the drummer could monitor everything they wanted. It was:
Channel 1: Click
Channel 2: Synth bass
Channel 3: Drum Tracks
Channel 4: Synth sounds
Channel 5: Monitor mix from the house engineer.
This way, my drummer had full capability to hear exactly more or less of what he needed in his headphones without effecting the sound that went to FOH.
This was all in a 6 space rack.
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