Stage Plot and Input List
Let a venue engineer patch the stage before you arrive, and save the twenty minutes of pointing and shouting that a gig without one costs.
MU-27 2 pages
Music and performance · MU-26
Sound Check and Monitor Mix Sheet
A sound check sheet — each monitor mix by wedge or IEM with what the player wants more and less of, the line check order with FOH and monitor notes.
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What this sheet is for
Put the mix that was right at sound check back at show time, and start the next gig from what worked rather than from nothing.
Who it is for
Monitor and front of house engineers, and bands who mix their own monitors from the stage or from a tablet.
How to use it
- Fill in the venue, the desk and who is mixing what at the top.
- Give every wedge, side-fill and IEM mix its own row, with the player and position.
- Write what each person asks for as more and less, in their words.
- Line check in order and tick each source, noting anything set at the desk.
- Record which songs were run and which to flag as loud or quiet.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: What each player wants in their wedge or ears, written down at sound check by the person mixing it, so the mix that was right at five o'clock can be put back at nine — and the next gig starts from it instead of from nothing.
Write-on lines: Act · Venue · Date · Sound check time · FOH engineer · Monitor engineer · Monitors from · Desk / console
Monitor mixes — one row per wedge, side-fill or IEM mix
Table, 5 rows: Mix · Who / position · Wedge / IEM · Wants more of · Wants less of · Notes
Sound check order — line check one by one, then a song or two together
Table, 5 rows: Order · Source / channel · Line checked · FOH note · Monitor note
Write-on lines: Songs run at sound check · Loudest / quietest song to flag · Check finished
Ruled lines: Notes — changes made after doors, what to remember for next time
Questions
Why are there no levels, EQ settings or gain figures on the sheet?
Because they belong to the room, the desk and the band on the day. What carries from one gig to the next is what each player wants to hear; the settings that deliver it are worked out afresh each time.
Is this the same as an input list?
No. The input list says what comes off the stage; this sheet says what goes back to it and what was done at the check. Send the Stage Plot and Input List ahead, and fill this one in on the day.
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