Common Knowledge dictates:
One mixes and arranges using studio monitors because they "are built to produce a very flat frequency so that sound engineers can hear tiny details in a mix".
Second best, certainly better than (just) 'speakers', seems to be to use headphones--studio/monitor headphones.
More often than not the studio speakers/headphones will be connected to your Audio Interface.
So after completing your mixing, you want to take the material and use it in a live performance (where, among other things, you'll need more volume). What kind of output device/speaker(s) situations are recommended:
- a) Use the studio monitors you used to mix the music?
b) Use a stereo, amplifying and outputting the sound through (non-studio monitor) speakers?
c) Use one or more guitar amps amplifying and outputting the sound through their speakers?
d) Use a, b, or c, miked and mixed through a PA--a more 'dependent' on the sound engineer/performance venue solution).
- e) If your output is miked (d) and you are performing over your mix and are using headphones or a speaker monitor the sound engineer can separately adjust and present to you elements of the sound you most need to hear.
f) If your output is not miked, can you, using Ableton, create a track you can adjust on stage to hilight elements of the sound you most need to hear and have that track play through your headphones (while the rest of the mix is sent to the performance space)?