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<blockquote data-quote="Kip Conner" data-source="post: 24833" data-attributes="member: 445">Re: How do you set up your system for an average show?I&#039;m a firm believer in the saying &quot;It&#039;s all about the load out.&quot; This doesn&#039;t mean that we cut corners to the point having half the PA on the truck before the band is finished. What it does mean is that there is someone that is in charge of prepping the load out as the act is playing. We do this by having cases for everything so that when it returns to the shop we don&#039;t have to re-pack. I have several 22x22&quot; cubes that hold xlr, mics, power, snakes- it&#039;s sometimes a lot of half filled cases, but I would rather have more cases than necessary than over packing a case and having to dig in to the bottom of xlr&#039;s for a short sub snake. At set-up no cable gets unwrapped without plugging in the cable tester -it&#039;s easy to do while it&#039;s still wrapped. When you are working with several bands and you have to pull some lines up and add some lines it takes 5 seconds to check a cable. In a festival situation, the guy that I mentioned before that preps the load out is also in charge of playing A3 patch manager (though he does no patching). His or her job is find the band that is on deck and confirm their stage plot and input list is up to date and then he and the monitor guy work through their paperwork so it matches our festival patch list. He will also ask what people like to hear in their wedges and write it down by order of the loudest so the monitor guy can begin dialing in mixes. Most importantly xlr&#039;s that are in the festival patch are numbered so they don&#039;t get mixed up band members start unplugging lines and running with their gear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kip Conner, post: 24833, member: 445"] Re: How do you set up your system for an average show? I'm a firm believer in the saying "It's all about the load out." This doesn't mean that we cut corners to the point having half the PA on the truck before the band is finished. What it does mean is that there is someone that is in charge of prepping the load out as the act is playing. We do this by having cases for everything so that when it returns to the shop we don't have to re-pack. I have several 22x22" cubes that hold xlr, mics, power, snakes- it's sometimes a lot of half filled cases, but I would rather have more cases than necessary than over packing a case and having to dig in to the bottom of xlr's for a short sub snake. At set-up no cable gets unwrapped without plugging in the cable tester -it's easy to do while it's still wrapped. When you are working with several bands and you have to pull some lines up and add some lines it takes 5 seconds to check a cable. In a festival situation, the guy that I mentioned before that preps the load out is also in charge of playing A3 patch manager (though he does no patching). His or her job is find the band that is on deck and confirm their stage plot and input list is up to date and then he and the monitor guy work through their paperwork so it matches our festival patch list. He will also ask what people like to hear in their wedges and write it down by order of the loudest so the monitor guy can begin dialing in mixes. Most importantly xlr's that are in the festival patch are numbered so they don't get mixed up band members start unplugging lines and running with their gear. [/QUOTE]

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