This live sound gig was by far the best I had encountered to date; the college had Finnish bands visiting that were scheduled to perform in the new theatre alongside performers from our college. Myself, Kevin, Marty and Pete were set the task of setting up and engineering the gig as well as Ciaran and Pauric over looking. We had done a test run on the Monday with the road show crew so we knew our channel listing and running order which passed with no problems. When setting up the equipment on stage we ensured that all cables were neatly placed to avoid tripping and danger, due to the new theatre having the wall boxes either side of the stage we thought as a precaution for health and safety that it would be wiser to run a multi-core from the wall box to behind the drum kit. This would be a neater option and decrease the amount of cables running across the stage. Below is a picture of the stage plan for the gig:
The running order and channel list is described below:
Running order
- Health and safety
- The guinea pig (sketch)
- Concrete angel (song/dance peace) left mic/full backline/ except right keys
- Thief (sketch)
- The pet shop
- New born (unmute keys) (WIRELESS MIC!!!!)
- Never miss a beat (song) switch keys/ mute keys
- Beat (sketch) unmute keys
- I know where I’ve been (song)
Channel listing
- Kick (FP6/1) beta 91
- Snare top (FP6/2) Sennheizer 604
- Snare bottom (FP6/3) Sennheizer 604
- Rack tom 1 (FP6/4) beta 98 ds
- Rack tom 2 (FP6/5) beta 98 ds
- Floor tom (FP6/6) beta 98 ds
- Hi hats (FP6/7) NT2
- Overhead (FP6/8) NT2
- Guitar left (FP7/1) Audix i5
- Guitar right (FP6/9) beta 58??
- Bass DI (FP6/10)
- Right keys Mono DI (FP6/11)
- Keys left DI (FP7/2)
- Vocals left (FP7/3) sm58
- Vocals centre (FP7/4) sm58
- Vocals right. (FP6/12) sm58
Below are some pictures of set up, engineering and performance from the gig:
Kevin and I took the roll of engineers on the mixer half way through the gig and had the privilege of mixing for the Finnish bands. We really enjoyed this gig as all acts were exceptional on the day although during the gig we did encounter a few problems with guitar levels on stage as they were too quiet which was sorted in-between songs. The area in which I could improve on is to be more vigilant during gigs; keeping an eye on the performers for guitar solos and raising the level for the instrument to sit clearly in the mix. Overall the gig was really enjoyable and passed off with very little problems; videos of the performances can be found on the website address: http://www.wix.com/themanwiththeplan10/livesoundwebsite#!videos
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