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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Manchester" data-source="post: 92421" data-attributes="member: 82">Re: How do you not lose your mind?The simplest thing I do before every show is do a mental checklist to see if I have at least all the necessary elements to make &quot;some sort of sound&quot; come out of &quot;something&quot;I look in the truck and starting from the performers perspective list off all the necessary major elements verifying I see the case in the truck: mics, Mic stands, mic cables, snake, console, amp racks, speaker cable, speakers, AC &amp; distro. If you at least have those items you can usually get enough of a system going to do a show even if you forget some more specific item. I also like to distribute things like mic cables and IEC&#039;s around various different cases so any one case can get left behind but we can get by without it. For example one time we forgot a case of mic cables for a show 2 hours from the shop, but I had about 30 in the bottom drawer of my mic workbox which were just enough to make the show happen. I also stash a few Edison and mic cables behind the seat of my truck just in case. And regarding forgetting the PSU cable for a console or amp; those kinds of things are best zip tied into the rack so they can&#039;t be accidentally removed and lost.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tom Manchester, post: 92421, member: 82"] Re: How do you not lose your mind? The simplest thing I do before every show is do a mental checklist to see if I have at least all the necessary elements to make "some sort of sound" come out of "something" I look in the truck and starting from the performers perspective list off all the necessary major elements verifying I see the case in the truck: mics, Mic stands, mic cables, snake, console, amp racks, speaker cable, speakers, AC & distro. If you at least have those items you can usually get enough of a system going to do a show even if you forget some more specific item. I also like to distribute things like mic cables and IEC's around various different cases so any one case can get left behind but we can get by without it. For example one time we forgot a case of mic cables for a show 2 hours from the shop, but I had about 30 in the bottom drawer of my mic workbox which were just enough to make the show happen. I also stash a few Edison and mic cables behind the seat of my truck just in case. And regarding forgetting the PSU cable for a console or amp; those kinds of things are best zip tied into the rack so they can't be accidentally removed and lost. [/QUOTE]

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