TECHNICAL RIDER Ver. 1.0 (June 2015) 1. INTRODUCTION: Please read this rider carefully, we have tried to make it as simple and straightforward as possible. If you should have any difficulties in fulfilling any of the specified or have questions about anything please do not hesitate to contact us. Please note that no changes in the contract appendix will be accepted unless the changes have been advised and approved in writing. Please contact us asap if you have any problems or questions concerning this technical rider. We appreciate if you send us detailed information on the provided sound- lightingand backline gear in advance. Please send us contacts of your crew as well. Production manager / FOH engineer: Alexander Startsev a_startsev@yahoo.com cell: +7 922 208 00 25 Skype: alexander.startsev1 1.1. STAGE: Stage dimensions need to be minimum 14m wide x 10m deep (46x33ft.), stable and free of obstacles. We will need 1 drum riser, it must be 3x2m (9.8x6.6ft.) 50cm (20 inches) high. Make it rolling riser for festivals. All gear set-ups must meet international safety regulations and newest standards. 2. SOUND: 2.1. PA SYSTEM: - Line Array (in order of preference): L Ácoustics K1/K2/V-Dosc/Kudo, D&B J-Series, Martin, Meyer, EAW, Nexo.. or - 3 or 4 Way Active PA System (L Ácoustics, Nexo, EAW, Martin Audio, Clair Bros...) - We require a PA system to easily handle the entire Venue with an average SPL at FOH of 112dB. - Front fill speakers will also be required. Delays, under balcony, outfills are required, if the main system does not have adequate coverage of these areas. - All appropriate drive, amplification and cabling systems to operate the above speaker systems. Please provide system remote controller on FOH. - We ll use separate send for subs. 1
2.2. FOH: METALLICA SHOW - Digidesign Venue D-show/Profile mixing console with Waves Live and VenuePack Pro plug-ins, running software version 3.0 or higher, with 2 (two) Stage Racks. We ll use minimum 70 inputs and 16 outputs on stage. 8-way coaxial snake. Please contact FOH engineer asap if Digidesign is not available, to discuss the substitutions. 2.3. MONITOR: - Digital Monitor console (in order of preference): Digico SD7/SD8/SD9, Yamaha PM5D-RH/CL5/CL3/M7CL48 Please see output patch at the end of the document - In Ear System: 4 x Sennheiser EW300 or Shure PSM900/1000 with 5 x bodypack Receivers, antenna combiner and Fisheye or Helix Antenna). - 10 High Quality 15 /2 or 12 /2 Wedges (biamped), 4 of them needs to be on stands (L Ácoustics HiQ 115/112,EAW Microwedge, Nexo PS15, d&b M2, Martin LE 1200/1500...) - 1 x 24 channels analogue active or passive mic/line splitter w/cabling. We ll patch the orchestra mics directly to the FOH stage racks (channels 1 to 48), and split band mics to the FOH and MON (channels 49 to 69) - 1 x 12 cannels XLR male XLR female multicore (without stage boxes) to patch FOH rack outs with Mon console ins (or 12 x XLR cables) 2.4. MICS AND STANDS: - All microphones and DI ś as per inputlist (see below). We need a minimum of 57 orchestra mics with proper s for instruments: DPA 4099 is the first choice, AudioTehnika PRO35 is also acceptable. Please contact PM if it s unavailable, we re open to discuss the alternatives. - Please provide 18 x 2 XLR female to 1 XLR male (Y-type) combiners, to patch two mics into one input. (channels 1 to 17) - Please provide 12 large and 10 small boom stands, a sufficient number of XLR cables and subsnakes to run the entire system. 2
3. BACKLINE: METALLICA SHOW Please provide the following backline in excellent condition for the sole use of Metallica show: 3.1. DRUMS: TAMA Starclassic, DW Collector, Yamaha Maple custom, Pearl Reference: Please provide drumheads in excellent condition. 2 x 22" Bassdrum (Remo Powerstroke 3 or 4 clear) 1 x 14" x 6,5" Snare (Remo Emperor X, Evans Power Center coated) 1 x 10" Racktom (Remo Emperor or Pinstripe clear, Evans G2 clear) 1 x 12" Racktom (Remo Emperor or Pinstripe clear, Evans G2 clear) 1 x 14" (or 16 ) Floortom (Top: Remo Emperor Clear, Bottom: Remo Ambassador Clear) 1x 16" (or 18 ) Floortom (Top: Remo Emperor Clear, Bottom: Remo Ambassador Clear) 1 x Hihat stand (2-legs or without legs) 1 x Hihat to bass drum attachment 1 x Double tom stand (toms cannot be mounted on kick drum) 5 x Cymbal Stand 2 x Kick pedal (Tama Iron Cobra or Tama Speed Cobra) 1 x Drum Throne 1 x Drum Carpet 1 x Acrylic clear Drum shield (minimum 170cm in height) VERY IMPORTANT 3.2. BASS: 1 x DI (bass amp is not needed) 1 x guitar stand 3.3. GUITAR: 3 x guitar amp (one is a spare), in order of preference: Marshall JCM 2000/900/800, Peavey 5150, 6505, 3120, Triple XXX, MesaBoogie Dual/Tripple Rectifier, with footswitches and cabling 2 x 4x12" Marshall, Peavey, or Mesa Boogie speaker cabinet 2 x Guitar stands 2 x long (at least 10m) Jack to Jack speaker cables for guitar amps (we ll set up guitar cabinets as far away from stage, as possible) 3.4. BACKLINE POWER: We ĺl need quad AC-Drops at the following positions: Upstage left, center and right, Downstage right, MON area (SL). For the gear we carry, all sockets need to be European Schuko, 230V, 50Hz, 10/16 amps. Please provide adaptors and step-up/down transformers if needed. 3
3.5. ORCHESTRA BACKLINE: For each show the backline needed for the orchestra may vary. Please contact the Promoter and/or Production manager in advance for further information. In general, we ll need: - Seats without armrest (amount according to the orchestra needs) - Tall bar seats without armrest (for the double basses) - Music stands with lights (amount according to the orchestra needs) - 2 x Keyboards with low stands (specs to be advanced) - 1 x Grand piano (if available in the venue) - 1 x small riser for Conductor with conductor s music stand - 4 x Timpani 4. CREW AND CONTACTS: 4.1. LOCAL CREW: - The promoter is to organise a pleasant, polite, and professional local crew of sound and lighting engineers as well as backliners for the rental backline to assist the Metallica Show crew. We need: - 1 Audio system engeneer/foh assistant - 1 Monitor assistant - 2 backliners - 1 lightning engineer - 1 video engineer (if venue has video option) - 4.2. METALLICA SHOW CREW CONTACTS: - 5.2.1 Tourmanagement: TBA - 5.2.2. Soundengineer FOH: Alexander Startsev, a_startsev@yahoo.com cell: +7 922 208 00 25 Skype: alexander.startsev1 Thank you very much for reading this carefully, we are looking forward to meet you onsite. Please see Input and Output Lists below. 4
INPUT LIST FOH Instrument Mic Subsnake Stand 1 Violin 1 DPA 4099V 1 2 Violin 1 DPA 4099V 2 3 Violin 1 DPA 4099V 3 4 Violin 1 DPA 4099V 4 5 Violin 1 DPA 4099V 5 6 Violin 1 DPA 4099V 6 7 Violin 2 DPA 4099V 7 8 Violin 2 DPA 4099V 8 9 Violin 2 DPA 4099V 9 10 Violin 2 DPA 4099V 10 11 Violin 2 DPA 4099V 11 12 Viola DPA 4099V 1 Viola DPA 4099V 13 Viola DPA 4099V 2 Viola DPA 4099V 14 Viola DPA 4099V 3 Viola DPA 4099V 15 Cello DPA 4099С 4 Cello DPA 4099С 16 Cello DPA 4099С 5 Cello DPA 4099С 17 Cello DPA 4099С 6 Cello DPA 4099С 18 Doublebass DPA 4099B 7 19 Doublebass DPA 4099B 8 20 Doublebass DPA 4099B 9 21 Flute DPA 4099U 1 22 Flute DPA 4099U 2 23 Oboe DPA 4099U 3 24 Oboe DPA 4099U 4 25 Clarinet DPA 4099U 5 26 Clarinet DPA 4099U 6 27 Bassoon DPA 4099U 7 28 Bassoon DPA 4099U 8 29 Horn DPA 4099T 9 30 Horn DPA 4099T 10 31 Horn DPA 4099T 11 32 Horn DPA 4099T 12 5
33 Tromb DPA 4099T 1 34 Tromb DPA 4099T 2 35 Tromb DPA 4099T 3 36 Tuba SM57 4 Tall boom 37 Trump DPA 4099T 5 38 Trump DPA 4099T 6 39 Trump DPA 4099T 7 40 Timpani SM81 8 Tall boom 41 Timpani SM81 9 Tall boom 42 Piano L DPA 4099P 10 43 Piano R DPA 4099P 11 44 Active DI Keys 1 Klark/BSS/Radial 45 Active DI Keys 2 Klark/BSS/Radial 46 Perc 1 SM81 Tall boom 47 Perc 2 SM81 Tall boom 48 Bass Drum Beta 52a or E/V N/D868 Tall boom 49 Kick1 Out SHURE Beta 52A, AUDIX 1 D6 Short boom or clamp 50 Kick1 In SHURE Beta 91A 2 51 Kick2 Out SHURE Beta 52A, AUDIX 3 D6 Short boom or clamp 52 Kick2 In SHURE Beta 91A 4 53 SD Top SHURE SM 57 5 Short boom or clamp 54 SD Bottom SHURE SM 57 6 Short boom or clamp 55 Hi-Hat SHURE SM 81 or AKG 7 C451B Short boom or clamp 56 Hi Tom SHURE Beta 98D/S or 8 57 Mid Tom SHURE Beta 98D/S or 9 58 Floor Tom1 SHURE Beta 98D/S or 10 59 Floor Tom2 SHURE Beta 98D/S or 11 60 Over L SHURE SM 81 or AKG 12 C451B Tall boom 61 Over R SHURE SM 81 or AKG 13 C451B Tall boom 62 Bass DI Active DI 14 63 GTR 1L SHURE SM 57 Short boom or clamp 64 GTR 1R SHURE KSM32/ Sennh. e906/609 Short boom or clamp 65 GTR 2 L SHURE SM 57 Short boom or clamp 66 GTR 2 R SHURE KSM32/ Sennh. e906/609 Short boom or clamp 67 Lead Voc SHURE Beta 58A Tall boom 68 SR Voc SHURE Beta 58A Tall boom 69 SL Voc SHURE Beta 58A Tall boom 6
INPUT LIST MONITOR N Name Source 1 FOH Return 1 FOH Stage rack out 1 2 FOH Return 2 FOH Stage rack out 2 3 FOH Return 3 FOH Stage rack out 3 4 FOH Return 4 FOH Stage rack out 4 5 FOH Return 5 FOH Stage rack out 5 6 FOH Return 6 FOH Stage rack out 6 7 FOH Return 7 FOH Stage rack out 7 8 FOH Return 8 FOH Stage rack out 8 9 FOH Return 9 FOH Stage rack out 9 10 FOH Return 10 FOH Stage rack out 10 11 FOH Return 11 FOH Stage rack out 11 12 FOH Return 12 FOH Stage rack out 12 13 Kick1 Out Splitter out 1 14 Kick1 In Splitter out 2 15 Kick2 Out Splitter out 3 16 Kick2 In Splitter out 4 17 SD Top Splitter out 5 18 SD Bottom Splitter out 6 19 Hi-Hat Splitter out 7 20 Hi Tom Splitter out 8 21 Mid Tom Splitter out 9 22 Floor Tom1 Splitter out 10 23 Floor Tom2 Splitter out 11 24 Over L Splitter out 12 25 Over R Splitter out 13 26 Bass DI Splitter out 14 27 GTR 1L Splitter out 15 28 GTR 1R Splitter out 16 29 GTR 2 L Splitter out 17 30 GTR 2 R Splitter out 18 31 Lead Voc Splitter out 19 32 SL Voc Splitter out 20 33 SR Voc Splitter out 21 OUTPUT LIST MONITOR N Name Where N Name Where 1 IEM 1 L MON world 9 Conductor (2 wedges) Upstage middle 2 IEM 1 R MON world 10 1st violins (2 wedges) Upstage SR 3 IEM 2 L MON world 11 Cellos (2 wedges) Upstage SRR 4 IEM 2 R MON world 12 Sidefill 1 (1 wedge on stand) SR 5 IEM 3 L MON world 13 Sidefill 2 (1 wedge on stand) SL 6 IEM 3 R MON world 14 Sidefill 3 (1 wedge on stand) SR 7 IEM 4 L MON world 15 Sidefill 4 (1 wedge on stand) SL 8 IEM 4 R MON world 16 Control wedge MON world 7