Bound for Boston sound check

My job along with a few of my class mates was to set up and do a sound check for the Bound for Boston gig in Derry. We arrived at the gig around 3.30 and proceeded to set the gear up for the bands to perform later that night, I was unable to attend the gig that night due to travel restrictions so my job was to have the gear ready for the engineer who would be engineering the gig. Paddy, Pete and myself started to set the gear up on stage ensuring that all cables were neatly position to avoid tripping and ensured that all equipment was positioned safely and neatly to avoid accidents or breakages. Below is a stag plan of the set up the equipment;

The channel listing for the gig is also explained below;

1. Kick

2. Snare

3. Hi tom

4. Floor tom

5. Bass DI

6. Guitar L

7. Guitar R

8. Triton keyboard

9. Vox L

11. Vox C

12. Vox R

There were also 3 stage monitors, 1 for the drummer, 1 for the lead singers and 1 for the guitarists.

The reason for the jump in the channel listing is due to a fault within the wall box in the Bound for Boston; connections 10 and 15 are faulty so we avoided using these. Below are some pictures of setup and the sound checking itself:

As you can see from the above pictures from the gig we had some outboard gear that consisted of a; graphic EQ, lexicon effects processor, and two 2 channel compressors.

After setting all the equipment up my first task was to ring out the sound system, this was done by turning all the channels up and raising the gains until the mics and monitors started to feedback. This then allowed me to go threw the frequency band of the graphic EQ and turn each band down until the feedback stopped; this in turn stops feedback when the levels are pushed by the engineer. We used the two channel compressors for; kick, snare and vocals to keep levels in check, overall I really enjoyed ringing out the sound system in the Bound for Boston as it taught me new skills in the frequency spectrum.