ALL (not SOME, but ALL) major concerts, whether stadium or outdoor, are done in MONO. In small venues, stereo vs mono is going to be influenced by the size and shape of the audio environment. My references here are all about the audience, not the performers. With House systems, usually the 'house' will get individual mono signals from each performer, 'blend' them into a MONO signal out. Monitor signals are a different story and are usually custom configured for each performer on stage.
chas
Actually they are not, just because each person on stage has their own signal (Exactly the same happens in the recording studio) they are mixed by the engineers on-site to create a stereo sound field for both recording purposes and realism, (Recordings played at home would not sound live if everything was mixed down to mono) the reason each has their own input is so that the mixing engineers can mix each one to give the best sound balance and spread for the audience, if they didn’t, then while the crowd would see the band spread out across the stage, their ears would tell them that all the sound was coming from the centre of the stage, which is very unnatural sounding and would make the overall performance sound meh.
Bill
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