Student BBQ 2nd June.

Me and Jason Cameron were tasked with setting up the sound for the end of year student BBQ at the amphitheatre beside the canteen at the main Strand Road NWRC building. The day before the gig we meet up with the band and asked what they needed for the gig then started making out our stage plan for it. From asking people in class who did gigs in the amphitheatre before what they needed to mic up much considering the size of the place and found they just let everything go through amps and just use vocal mics really. 

The band was Medium Rare and they said they needed three vocal mics, 2 DIs for their semi-acoustics and a monitor for the vocals to hear each other for doing three part harmonies. We decided we were going to mic up only the kick on the drum kit but when we got to the theatre and started setting up we didn't feel that we needed it. One of the guitarists had 2 separate semi acoustics for himself that he was going to change between songs and we had a spare DI with us so we set it up with his alternate guitar already plugged in and set up so he could easily change between guitars and get right into playing. We muted which ever guitar he wasn't using during the songs.

The channel list was as follows:

1- Guitar 1 DI

2- Guitar 2 DI

3- Vocal left  PG48

4- Vocal centre  PG48

5- Vocal right   PG48

6- Alternate guitar DI

The soundcheck went well and here we sorted out what everyone wanted in the monitor then we went ahead with the gig. I sat out in the crowd and signalled to Jason which things needed turned up or down. The gig went really well and when the band was finished we played a playlist out of a iPod while we put around all the mics and instruments used by the band.