STAGE PLOT NOTES:

The band's minimum required stage/footprint size: 20' wide by 15' deep (20' by 20' is preferred).

1. Lead vocalist (Mike) uses a wireless mic (normal XLR input). (Mike provides his own mic)

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 (XLR out).

4. Center stage (Mike) electric guitar. Suitable mic and XLR cable to be provided by venue/soundman.

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.  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 a foot pedal controlled by Chris (Stage Right). We will need to have an XLR cable supplied by venue to connect this DI to the house system.

9. MONITORS: We control our own in-ears for the entire band. We have been running all instrument inputs into a Whirlwind Splitter Stage Box (provided by us). A 16 channel, 25 foot, direct output snake goes to FOH. A 16 channel, 25 foot, isolated output snake goes to the band's Allen & Heath SQ5 board for in-ear monitor mixes for all 4 members of the band. Ideally, when space permits, the mixer console can be placed off-stage and we use an Allen & Heath DX168 onstage for instrument inputs, connected to the main mixer console via CAT5 cable. When permitted, the band prefers a low-level on-stage monitor wedge mix for coverage (four wedges) so that in-ears may be taken out if needed. Brett (drums) still prefers to have good coverage with a stage monitor.

10. Drum mics: We 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).

11. For venues with rear screen projection capabilities, we would hope for an HDMI drop somewhere near Stage Right so as to facilitate streaming video from an Apple Macbook. (The videos are controlled during the show by Chris via foot pedal). If a projector/HDMI arrangement exists but the HDMI doesn't reach the stage, we do have an HDMI-to-cat5 converter (in case a guest cat5 ethernet line exists).