Wednesday, 29 April 2015

Riders

DJ and Electronic Music Production
Project management
Simon Adair


technical specification and Riders

Musicians.about.com defines Tech-spec as a band or agent providing information to a venue on the artist/bands equipment requirements and what equipment the artist will be bringing. Its all down to audio interfacing.
The tech-spec can also be a listing of the venues in-house equipment and technical capacity.

My personal tech spec for my next gig/open mic event is as follows:

  • Audio interface x2
  • Bass Guitar/Guitar
  • Laptop
  • System 1 Plug-out, MIDI and USB Synthesiser
  • Launchpad
  • Oxygen Keyboard

So this leaves me only needing access to 4.4 audio cabling to a sound system. Other than that my project partner and myself are quiet self sufficient for our live work.

A very good example of a Tech spec for a facility such as a venue or recording studio would be The WEC studio equipment guide. I Have attached an excerpt of this to give a fair idea of the 'load-out' of a audio capable facility.

Riders
Although I have not taken into account riders for my own project, it has been known for artists to apply for extremely unusual or demanding riders just to 'see if they could' get them.
Vice.com created a list of 'ridiculous riders' just to give an idea of how outrageous they can get. However they are usually demanded by well known and established artists who have the reputation and influence to be able to acquire them.
A self start would have to ask for far less in order to be considered sane.



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