Help finish my stage box design?

We’ve had a really hard time relying on FOH to do our monitoring, so I wanted to see what I can do of my own.

We are a three piece instrumental electronic band, guitar, drums and keys with backing tracks. Guitarist uses a wedge and drums/keys use IEMs.

8 instrument inputs needed minimum (not including drum
mics). More if I seperate out the backing tracks further.

Current design ideas:

6U rack case

Playaudio 1u(for backing track redundancy)

Behinger X32 rack

Wired IEMs (for now, will upgrade to wireless when I can afford it)

Art T8 Mic splitter (I’m not sure if this is best option for IO with FOH and also so my drummer can hear his drums through the IEMs)

Wireless router for connecting phones for personal IEM mixs (any recommendations?)

Surge protected power strip

Ideally a 1U draw if space


Is there anything else I’m missing? I want a FOH tech to see our tech rider and be happy that their life is made easier.

use a panel with 16 xlr-f inputs, split signals via y-cables - one leg goes into your mixer, the other leg is for foh.

An ART S8 is fine for your intended purpose - very good value too. Most FOH engineers will want the 'direct' split to be able to feed phantom power etc. and you will use the transformer split for your monitoring. And a 'Y' split can also work in most cases, as DDY mentions.

Thanks all. I don’t quite understand how the drum monitoring works, so do we have to get the FOH to wire the drum mics directly into my stage box then I send to FOH, or do FOH send it back to stage on a return channel?

I just want to make it super simple for the FOH but also give the drummer granular control over his monitor mix