Abstract: A stage monitoring system is described and claimed that provides musical performers the ability to carefully control the local sounds they are hearing during a performance independently of the house sound system and independently of the other musicians on stage. A complete and unique system constituting an improved method of monitoring oneself during an aural performance, by way of a discreet mixer that sums the collective audio signals coming from a vocal microphone, a mono or stereo instrument input, stereo ambient microphones and signals from two auxiliary inputs. The unit sends the audio signal from the ‘Instrument In’ and the ‘Vocal In’ to an audio recording console or live performance mixing console.