Mojo Go Go Acoustic Set at the Brasserie 22/11/10

Today me and Jason Cameron had a gig to do that was in the Brasserie restaurant in the Northland building of the NWRC Strand Road campus. The band performing was Mojo Go Go and it was an acoustic set. We got to the Brasserie at about 11.15 and began to set everything up. We started by setting up the speakers first then the mic stands in good positions for al the musicians playing. Then we set up all our XLR leads from the stands and tried to keep them altogether behind were the musicians were playing to avoid and trip hazards during the gig. all leads were also taped down to further avoid that hazard and to keep everything neat and tidy. After cabling was all done we line checked everything before the band turned up so we could get straight into the sound check as soon as they arrived.


The two guitarist were DI'd as they were using 2 semi-acoustics. Instead of a full drum kit, the drummer simply used a Cajon which me and Jason mic'd up at the back with a D112 and at the front with a SM57. We used the D112 because it is essentially a kick drum mic and figured it would be great for picking up a nice bass strong sound from the back and we used the SM57 to pick up the higher slapping/hitting sounds coming from the front of the Cajon. These 2 sounds , picked up by the mics, produced a nice strong solid sound for the Cajon. The bass was simply played coming out of the amp due to it not needing much amplification in such a small venue and the keyboard was DI'd.

The only real problem was that we couldn't get sound to come out from the keyboard, which we really could not understand at first since we had already line checked everything but we eventually found out that channel 4 and 5 were switched about and immediately sorted out the issue. There were no other issues at all during the gig so overall it went very well for us and we got plenty of good feedback from people in the brasserie and the band themselves, who went on to play a few encores.

This is the channel list for the gig.

Channel 1: Cajon Box Rear

             2: Cajon Box, Sm57 to front of box.

             3: Acoustic guitar Right

             4: Keyboard

             5: Acoustic guitar Left

             6: Vocal Left

             7: Vocal Right

Stage Plan