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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Barracato" data-source="post: 26953" data-attributes="member: 24">Re: My festival strategies&nbsp;Mark,&nbsp;I see you have run into some of the same promoter/providers I have. The problem of not enough channels, whether it be on the board, or on the snake seems to be fairly common. This one comes down to the advance. My rider says very specifically 14 channels. I highlight that in my initial contact. That doesn&#039;t mean a &quot;12&quot; channel board where a couple of them don&#039;t have mic preamps. It doesn&#039;t mean a 14 channels board where &quot;sorry channel 1 and channel 8 aren&#039;t working&quot;. My common solution is just to bring my own board and hand off L/R to the system instead. Lack of snake channels may leave me mixing at side stage, but that is not an overly critical problem.&nbsp;I don&#039;t know of any bluegrass band that has ever turned down a decent paying gig for technical reasons, but sometimes it comes down to meet my rider and get our greatest show; don&#039;t meet the rider and I will use my knowledge and experience to do the best we can but at the end of the day the pay is the same and we will be on to the next gig.&nbsp;My rider has no brand names on it. Anything that is brand critical (like the mic package) I will provide. Most of the words on it are actually stage and electrical safety items.&nbsp;Of course, even after advancing a show, we arrived at one show earlier this year where they had no clue where on stage they were going to put 6 people with instruments. We did end up with a bad compromise but that one was almost pay us and let us go without playing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Barracato, post: 26953, member: 24"] Re: My festival strategies Mark, I see you have run into some of the same promoter/providers I have. The problem of not enough channels, whether it be on the board, or on the snake seems to be fairly common. This one comes down to the advance. My rider says very specifically 14 channels. I highlight that in my initial contact. That doesn't mean a "12" channel board where a couple of them don't have mic preamps. It doesn't mean a 14 channels board where "sorry channel 1 and channel 8 aren't working". My common solution is just to bring my own board and hand off L/R to the system instead. Lack of snake channels may leave me mixing at side stage, but that is not an overly critical problem. I don't know of any bluegrass band that has ever turned down a decent paying gig for technical reasons, but sometimes it comes down to meet my rider and get our greatest show; don't meet the rider and I will use my knowledge and experience to do the best we can but at the end of the day the pay is the same and we will be on to the next gig. My rider has no brand names on it. Anything that is brand critical (like the mic package) I will provide. Most of the words on it are actually stage and electrical safety items. Of course, even after advancing a show, we arrived at one show earlier this year where they had no clue where on stage they were going to put 6 people with instruments. We did end up with a bad compromise but that one was almost pay us and let us go without playing. [/QUOTE]

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