STAGE PLOT NOTES:

1. Lead vocalist (Mike) uses a wireless mic (normal XLR input). In an effort to capture the production elements of the song, Mike prefers to manage his own level of reverb and delay settings. To accomplish this, he brings his own small mixer (onstage with him) - this requires a stereo XLR for stereo vocal input and panned left & right on the venue’s board. Mike provides his own outboard EQ and compressor, so prefers the FOH engineer to just run it completely dry on their end with no compression and only adjust EQ if necessary. 

2. Center stage (Mike) acoustic guitar is just a basic XLR input. (Mike provides his own cables and DI box). 

3. Center stage (Mike) keyboard and synthesizer (which comes off of a laptop) run into the same small (on-stage) mixer and those outputs are combined into one XLR out, so I just need one XLR input for both the keys and synth. 

4. Center stage (Mike) requires an XLR mix send back from the venue’s board for in-ears monitors. 

5. The drum kit is technically a five piece (additional floor tom on the left side of the snare). 

6. The guitar amp (Stage Right) needs to be appropriately mic'd (no DI out).  Suitable mic and XLR cable to be provided by venue/soundman. 

7. The Ampeg (BA-115) bass amp (Stage Left) has a direct DI XLR out, so that can be run to the board via a venue-supplied XLR cable (via venue-supplied snake or else straight to board). 

8. We have some backing tracks from an iPad (shown in plot as the laptop positioned near drummer), run to a DI box (band-provided). We will need to have an XLR cable supplied by venue to connect this DI to the house system. We need an XLR monitor out back to our drummer's small mixer that his in-ears are plugged into. 

9. MONITORS: We need four wedges, one for each band member. Mike (center stage) and Brett (drums) each ALSO employ in-ears, so we will need monitor sends back to them as well, as described above (in items 4 and 8). 

10. Drum mics: Obviously, for smaller rooms, we do not require full micing of the kit, but we do need the snare and kick mic'd up at a minimum (with industry-standard suitable microphones provided by the venue). For larger spaces, as dictated by the size of the venue, we would expect individual mics across the full kit (again, provided by the venue, and as outlined in the below input list, including a pair of overhead condensers).