Just a couple of little tips and tricks as far as labeling is concerned, it's quite important that when you put the labels particularly on the microphone cables themselves, that they are the right way up. For example, particularly when you're plugging the male ends into the stage box, if the labels are upside down, it actually makes the label illegible and therefore pointless. For example, here is a stage box. This is our kick drum out microphone. This is the right way up. As you can see, you can read the label quite clearly, if we were to plug it in the other way around, you would not be able to, so always make sure that you get the label on the right part of the XLR.
This also applies Of course to input instruments, microphones and di boxes. For example, this lovely little short condenser microphone here, which is going to be my higher microphone. I will stick the label clearly close to where the XLR is going to plug into the microphone, so it's nice and legible. Obviously, one of the things I want to avoid is covering up any of the switches that affect the pad or the frequency response. Unless of course, it's important that these switches don't move in which case you should take them up using a separate piece of tape permanently so as they aren't accessible by anybody actually using the microphone. I'm just one last thing in the stage labeling department, mains distribution boards.
It's very important that any mains power that is being used on stage is run for In the same phase or the same place as the monitor amplifiers and the monitor speakers, anything else that's got anything to do with electricity that's on the stage. And I think that it is a really good idea to label our mains boxes for audio use only. This prevents people plugging fans hair dryers, refrigerators, anything that is particularly mechanical, that has any kind of moving parts in it. They can cause unnecessary mains noise, hums buzzes all of these kinds of problems. And as a result, I like to label nice and clearly on any mains that is going to have instruments plugged into it for audio only or backline only if you prefer. This prevents people plugging things like lights into it.
There it is.