Basic Chapel/Vespers Setup Procedure
Snakes
Run all 4 snakes (audio Red, Blue, and orange, and Livemix) through the rat hole to the upstage center audio rack. For ease of strike, drop the snake head (the big box part) on stage where it will live, then run the cable to the hole. Leave the excess cable coiled onstage behind where the curtain will drop, and pass ~5' of the end through the hole.
Cables
Usual chapel/vespers XLR cable needs will be:
- 5x: 10' (White)
- 2x: 15' (Purple)
- 5x: 25' (Yellow)
- 5x: 35' (Blue)
- all of the electrical taped XLR cable looms
Music Stands
These are United's duty to set and strike.
Mic Stands
Vocalists will each have a stick mic stand, unless also playing an instrument (then use a boom).
Drums will have the two short boom stands, the gimpy yellow stand with a mic clip stuck on it, and a tall boom stand.
Instruments needing a mic will use a tall boom stand per mic. (instruments going DI do not need mic stands)
Mic Case
Once all mics being used are taken out of the case, it will be stored backstage stage left, under the video rack.
Rugs
There should be rugs under each performer on stage. Drums will get it's own rug. The smaller rugs can hold two vocalists or smaller instruments. The large rug can hold 3 vocalists, or a larger instrument and a smaller instrument/vocalist.
Stage Plot
Will be located in Planning Center under current the plan's files. Should tell you what instruments will be where, and any special needs for the event.
Mics/DIs
Usual Mic assignment is as follows:
- Kick Out: e602
- Snare Top: V7x
- High Tom: e604
- Floor Tom: MD421
- OHs: 2x KM184 w/ XY clip
- Bass: XLR into pedalboard
- Keys: 2x ProAV2 DIs
- Electric, XLR, or ProAV2 DI
- Acoustic: LRBaggs Paracoustic DI
- Cello/Violin: DPA4099
- Vocals: V7, e935, Beta57/Beta58 - depending on vocalist sound
Truss
Upstage truss needs to be brought in to drop curtains upstage behind the band. Drop all black fabric first, then detach the small flat truss from the box truss, and set on the floor. Do not detach the aircraft cables. There will be 4 other aircraft cables to drop off the front of the truss to hang set pieces from. Fly the truss out until the outside curtains are just touching the floor.
Set Pieces
Set pieces will be used for all chapels.
The current set is the LED Tubes (Angel wings)
On each cart, there will be a set piece with the tubes facing out from the cart. This piece will remain on the cart permanently.
The other piece will attach to the aircraft cables dropped on the front of the upstage truss.
All power cables will run to the upstage wall.
All cat5 cables will run to the network switch on the center-SR set piece. The cable already on that set piece will run to the bottom cat5 port on the on-wall patch panel on the other side of the rat hole.
Cameras
All 3 JVC cameras to be powered on, along with their viewfinder monitors, and rough-aimed to the stage.
Stage cameras to be placed on interesting instruments in the backline (often drums, keys, cello). Stage cameras will run to the first SDI video port on each patch panel under the windows onstage. (A16, A18)