Venue: The Brassery, NWRC, Derry

Sound Check: 12.00

First Band Due On: 12.30


Date: 23^rd Feb 2011

For this lunch time gig at the college, Kevin and I needed to set up the venue for 3 bands. We found out who the bands were and what was the equipment needed for this gig. This is the sound rider that we put together:

2 x Boom Stands

 2 x Speaker Stands

2 x RCF310A Powered Moniters (FOH)

1 x Soundcraft EFX 8 Mixing Desk + Flight Case

2 x Extension Leads

2 x Plugboards

6 x XLR (2 Spare)

1 x Jack – Jack

1 x Stage Box

2 x Di Box

3 x Kettle Leads (1 Spare)

On the mixing desk we decided to do route the signal in the following way:

Channel 1: Vox L – PG 48 (Shure)
Channel 2: Vox R – XM1800S (Berhinger)

Channel 3: Di L – (Acoustic) (Reverb Used)

Channel 4: Di R – (Accoustic) (Reverb Used)

Only two out of the 3 bands turned up for the gig and they were as follows:

Band No.1: Megidocannon

2 Semi Acoustic

1 Vox

Band No 2: Jamie Sloan

Played 4/5 Tracks

Semi Accoustic

Vox

                                                                                                                                

 The view from the front of the the stage shows the placement of the two speakers the two mic stands and the location of the mixing desk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Everything set up in time for arranged sound check at 12.00

We put a safety plan into action as regards to having the leads/cables all placed neatly away underneath sofas, tables and running tidily and out of the way along skirting boards etc. This also helped keep the stage area in a tidy and presentable manner.The flight case doors were also placed safely under a sofa that was not being used. The overflow of wires from the two mic's etc were neatly stacked under the speaker stand.Any cables that ran accross the stage were taped to the floor to help prevent people from tripping over them.Both monitor stands had there legs positioned in line with tables and sofas not being used to help prevent any one from tripping over them.

The leads from furthest monitor were placed neatly behind sofas and ran along skirting board to prevent anyone from tripping over them.Extra slack on leads were neatly stacked inside the flight case.We were not getting the signal from the DI box. After a few seconds kevin noticed the battery needed to be switched on.We the realised that there was a phantom power switch on the desk, but we decided to let the mic's runoff the battery.We use the XLR from stage box to desk Inputs 1 - 4 to control the levels of the two mic's and for the two DI boxes.

We then labeled the Input faders on the desk as follows:

Channel 1: VOX L

Channel 2: VOX R

Channel 3: Acoustic L

Channel 4: Acoustic R

We set up the mixer like this when one of the guys wanted to do a solo:

Channel 1: Vox

Channel 2:  Accoustic

We also added reverb to all the channels we were using. We decided to have the master reverb level set to 0db on the fader.We could then control the amount of reverb added to each channel using the reverb gains on each channel.

We muted any channels we were not using and we also had the channel levels zero'd.

While one of the performers was on we pulled EQ'd him by pulling back the low and mid signals. With the reverb added the fequencies did not clash and it seemed to give him a much fuller and more rounded tone in his voice.

Megidocannon :  

The following series of photos also paint a picture of how we set the stage up:

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Jamie Sloan ripping it up!