Re: Loomed Sub Multis - power, XLR, NL2
so i'll be the dissenter in the crowd. 
i think your idea still has merit. you're essentially wiring to performers [or two if they are close together and their needs are minimal] rather than to central breakout areas. could certainly make for a simple stage layout. and it'd be easier to tell folks how to run it the cables. just 'run one of these to each of the stage positions' instead of 'put this 6-way stage box down center and this 8-way one stage right and this one stage left and daisy chain these power drops and run this monitor cable to that speaker and and and and...'
couple of suggestions. make all your looms the same length. and make them fairly long. color-code both ends VERY clearly, since you'll be patching them in a central location. and my favorite, use letters rather than numbers for your mic and monitor lines. i find it far less confusing to say that the lead vocal mic is on red C and patches to stagebox 7 than to say that vocal 1 is on subsnake 4, channel 3, to stage box 7.
also, you're going to want to make sure you can plug multiple monitor lines into single channels on your amp rack for when you're only running one or two monitor mixes.
one last thought. if you're not sure this is worth it, bundle up some cables you've already got and go do a few gigs and see what works and what doesn't before you go to the trouble of making boxes and the like.
good luck...
