The system hisses, the vocal is buried, and turning anything up makes it worse. That is not a fault — it is a gain structure set in the wrong order, and there is a defined procedure that fixes it.
A live system with bad gain structure has a characteristic set of symptoms, and they arrive together: audible hiss between songs, a vocal that will not sit above the band no matter what you do with the fader, something clipping before anything is loud enough, and the general sense that turning things up makes matters worse rather than better.
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