Labeling. Labeling is the single most important thing that we do on the stage. There are all kinds of cables all over the stage, microphones, loudspeakers, all of which need to be correctly identified. There are many different systems, everybody has their own way of doing it. I do believe that actually, there is a new verb shortly to be introduced into the English language, courtesy of my friend and colleague, Mr. JOHN Burton. Thanks, john, who the verb is to grill after me and it basically means to use multicolored type in a clear, precise and excessive way to make sure that everything is as clearly labeled as it possibly can be.

There's many reasons for this, but primarily, it's because mostly when we are doing for example, China Java has read patches between groups, we really do need to be able to identify cables quickly and easily. And mistakes cost us time, which is one thing of course we don't have. So, labeling is good clear, precise labeling preferably or certainly in terms of multiple acts on a single stage using color coding. To identify the inputs that belong to different acts can be a very good idea. Having some type like this, this is actually arranged in resistor color code order. red brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, magenta, gray, white represent one through nine.

Zero is black, and is used as a multiplier. This is a universal color code and is used by all sorts of people to Identify cables numerically in terms of their, they use and also in terms of their length. Tables need to be labeled at both ends as you can see this one has been, we consider it a little impolite to leave the labels on. Certainly, in some circles it is considered impolite to leave your cables labeled after use. Very often, people will not remove the labels until there are three or four which makes it possibly very misleading for us. So I personally like to start the state this is the stage labeling process with a nice clean tables without any labels on them with any description.

The same applies to the input devices, the eye boxes, microphones, make sure that we remove all of the previous type labels just in order to avoid any possible misunderstanding. ending. When we're talking about di boxes, it's a very good idea to use two sets of labels, one for the actual device itself to signify what the input is. And the other one to label the switches on the box to make sure if it's used twice for two subsequent performances, that you get the correct configuration of switches to pad, the ground, lift, the phase reverse switch, whatever switches there are on the box. It's really important that you get them back to how they originally were