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Stage Plots

Sooner or later every successful band will be asked to provide a stage plot.  Basically a stage plot is a diagram of how your band sets up on stage.  The stage plot is intended to help a sound engineer get an idea of your needs will be.  How many microphones will be needed, where on the stage all the instruments will be located, what kinds of instruments, and ideally, some clues as to what is need in the various monitor mixes.
The stage plot can be as simple as a hand drawn sketch and a few notes or super fancy with little pictures of the instruments, microphones, etc.
Here is a good free resource to help you make yours: www.freestageplots.com
Just for fun, here are stage plots from bands you may have heard of:

Sepultura:
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/sepultura-stageplot.jpg

This one is from Boy George:
http://totalproaudio.stevebunting.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Stage-Plot.png

And one from The Cramps:
http://scorgies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/crampsstgplot1.jpg

Guided By Voices:
http://www.nashvillescene.com/images/blogimages/2011/01/03/1294088225-gbvstageplot.png

For comparison here is a hand drawn one from a band I think called Toss:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__u8uLjEPpRU/TDuFEKPOmmI/AAAAAAAAAHE/3cpyuSGUtPQ/s1600/toss+Stage+Plot.jpg

And a super fancy one from a band called Sun:
http://z7digiplayradio.com/Sun%20-%20stage%20diagram%20-concertv1.png

This cool one is made from a photo of the Richard Cheese band on stage:
http://www.richardcheese.com/rimg/richardcheese-stageplot.jpg



This is one Neddy & the Losers made: