#Seismic splitter snake full
#Seismic splitter snake plus

Sometimes & depending its not entirely uncommon to pull the FOH drive snake and plug everything into/out of a guest console. maybe 10-15 minutes because not much changes from night to night. Ideally soundcheck is quick, basically just toss everything up.

#Seismic splitter snake full

Generally most touring bands carry a full mic & DI locker with their own monitor desk & engineer. $99 drum package $29 sm58 knock off junk. Generally whoever supplies the splitter also supplies both tailsĪll the stage mics hit the splitter first, most people are gonna be happy to use whatever the band or their engineer wants to use as long as they aren't crap. One tail to your monitor desk, one tail to FOH Mics - stage wiring ? - transformer splitter = No dude, YOU mix your IEM or you bring your own monitor cat who mixes your IEMs on a console you haul into the venue. Pretty simple! Advance the gig, show up with the right stuff and everyone has a happy easy time.

#Seismic splitter snake plus

Plus they sound crappy since the mics are getting loaded down between two preamps.Įvery place I work at, either as house or guest engineer will deny tying in with a simple Y-splitter 110% of the time. too much risk for hums, buzzes, damage to gear (if both phantom sources are active) not to mention shocks and electrocution. Getting one of those 'suicide snake' Y-splitters is a waste of money. If you go this route you need a transformer isolated splitter with ground lifts on each channel. Worst thing is to just show up and pop it on 'em, probably 98.3% of the time you'll be denied tying into the house system. Proper etiquette also dictates that you contact the venues crew in advance and let them know what's coming.

Likewise its expected that any artist carrying IEM and expecting a consistent mix will carry everything from source to stage box including a full mic package, hand a fantail to FOH and say 'here 'ya go have fun!' The venues that easily accommodate IEM will have a built-in transformer isolated splitter, hand you a fantail and say 'here 'ya go have fun!' I deal with this stuff dozens of times a year. If you end up in a venue that gives you issues about it, it's completely because of their own incompetence.įor your concern about needing to buy more mic cables, if you are supplying all the cables for your own mics, the venue should have enough to compensate for anything else. I would be thrilled if a band that hired me showed up to the show with the rig I mentioned. There are tons of mics that work fine on guitar amps (sm57, beta57a, e609/906, etc). Any hiffing and hawing about using the house mics is really ridiculous. I really don't see the possibility of you having the wrong cables, as xlr is used for basically everything.įor your rocking the boat concern, any venue that has a decent soundman will be able to accommodate this proposed setup. You would order a splitter snake with one short tail to go to your mixer, and one long tail to go to the stage snake, usually 30 feet or so. Most splitter snakes give you the option of ordering them with different length fantails (the fantail is the end opposite the input box that has all of the xlr male ends for each cable). I could maybe see a theatre being set up like that with the input boxes actually built into the stage, but even then there's most likely a patchbay somewhere to get all of those inputs where they want them. It seems unwise to me that you would split up all of your inputs right out of the gate without knowing the layout of what bands you're going to get. I would assume that at some point of the stage there is a box with all of the inputs.