Okay, we have now had a look at the stage plan and the input list and we have allocated the various satellite boxes to the various inputs on the stage. For example, here we have box a, this is going to be for the main bands drum kit, and as you can see, I have labeled it up. So as we can plug the the appropriate microphone inputs into it. This box will be positioned upstage left on the drum riser or in the drum area somewhere usually around about where the high art is. The reason for this is that there are more inputs on that side of the drum kits so we can use fewer smaller cables or shorter cable should I say so this box is for the main bands drums This is going to stay in the same position once they have sound checked. We are going to try not to move their drum kit or their microphones.

It is very possible that the support band will turn up with their own drum kit. So we will have to accommodate another drum kit at some stage in our stage patch. There are a couple of methods of doing this. This is my box b this is my main act box B. This is the box that stands on stage right? And caters for the bass di the bass mic left and right keyboards and the two vocals a keyboard vocal and the downstage right vocal.

Now this box is obviously supplied by the orange soccer patch cable that runs right away across the stage. So in order to conveniently utilize the facilities we already have for the support band, this cable and its attendant tail was at the stage box are going to become the cable for the support band drum box If we are in the position of having another box a spare box which we have the luxurious position of having here in our venue, this will become the support band drum box. So we leave this box plugged in the main bands inputs and we simply unplug the soccer patch cable, plug it into a new box, which is color coded blue for the support band drums. I then will relabel the appropriate end of the soccer patch cable which is in front of this end and we will label it support drums.

So it's quite clear and I will also reliable and re color code details which we plug into the main stage box accordingly. And so this is also going to become support or support band There you go. So this cable, and this box done become a separate subsystem that cater for the support band drums, and we can return it to its original state easily and quickly by simply unplugging this box, plugging the original box back in and using the orange labels instead of the blue labels on the tiles that plug into the stage box, which of course will also be appropriately labeled, thus making it quick and easy to do the changeover and minimizing the risk of making any patching mistakes. Just one little point I should make here. With these satellite boxes, you'll see I've stuck an extra piece of tape over the four parallel inputs you can see these a male XLR is here.

The reason I do this is simply for safety, that if the antibody should knock over a drink or That'd be another possibility of shorting out between the pins of the XLR. Then particularly if that channel has phantom power on and there's the potential of having 48 volts DC at the pins here. The type is simply a safety device, prevent any kind of interference or any problems with any microphones might require phantom power to work. It's a nice useful safety precaution to take