This is how our battle station was like (after it was getting packed up), as you can see it is quite small only because we could only use a small space. We surrounded the instruments and players with the speakers facing them. There was also a lot of wires at the edge near the speakers, we had to cover some of the wires with tape for safety reasons. The Juno Synth and the keyboard were next to each other, we didn't want there to be that much space between only because it was decided to keep everything in a small space. However, there was a bit of an issue when keyboard player's had to switch over as one of player's had to stand in the little corner and wait for his turn. We got to set up the the di boxes, stereo di , Instruments (Piano, Ass, Juno Synth, amp < even though we did not need it as one of the guitarist didn't show up )
There was some issues that we just had to deal with, one of the player's from the group couldn't make it as she was ill (Electric guitar player) and the one of the group didn't rehearse properly, so they had to improvise throughout the performance and it went really well. We got to communicate with Elliots group more this is because they were in the studio rehearsing more than the other group.
This is the tape Gaffa tape that we used to tape up the wires just incase it gets damaged.
As I was explaining before, there wasn't that much space for the piano player's to stand up to wait for their turn. One of them had to stay in that corner (where the blue door is) while the other was in between the piano and the juno synth.
This is the wall box. We plugged the XLR's into it which went through the dimmer room and where we patched the instruments into the mixer.
Over here is the mixer. The Allen & Heath ZED 22FX. In the picture there's a orange tape on channel 3 the reason is channel 3 had a malfunction, it wasn't working properly there was fuzziness and awful distortion coming from the speaker because of this channel. So we moved it to channel 11.
our instruments were on this mixer.
Instrument channels:
- Piano Channel 1
- Juno Synth Channel 2
- Bass 2 (Jake's bass) Channel 14
- Bass 1 ( Andre's Bass ) Channel 11
- Mic Channel 13
On the channels Aux's, each of them was being controlled by 3 monitors this was a good option for us that we chose....HOWEVER! There was one disadvantage, the 3rd aux send was a pre send so when the main fader of the channel was turned down it wouldnt be in the monitors
After setting up for about 2 hours, the set only lasted for 10 minutes! It was a good a performance, we managed to pack up almost everything.
