The DiGiCo SD9 icon documents signal flow, not just scenery. It shows where the system lives and how much stage it consumes, which is the part of a plot the audio department reads first.
Place it, rotate it, and give it a label that matches the language your crew already uses. The export keeps all of it.
Stage position is the thing that gets argued about at load in, so it is worth drawing accurately. Mains sit outside the downstage corners with subs on the deck or flown, positioned to keep the front row covered without firing into the vocal mics. If the room forces a compromise, move the icon and export again. A fresh PDF is cheap; an argument at load in is not.
One thing worth writing down. Note whether the PA is house supplied or provided. Coverage arguments are much cheaper before the truck arrives.
DiGiCo SD9 is not an audio source, so it adds no rows to the input list. It is there to make the drawing accurate: it shows where the system lives and how much stage it consumes, and the channel count stays clean because nothing silent is padding it out.
The input list behind the plot exports as a Behringer X32 or Midas M32 scene file, a Behringer Wing scene, or CSV channel names for Allen and Heath dLive, Avantis, and SQ, DiGiCo, and Yamaha CL and QL desks. See the console guides.
More PA
14 icons share the PA section of the palette. These are the ones most often placed alongside DiGiCo SD9.
Shows where the system lives and how much stage it consumes is only part of the picture. These icons come from Monitors, Stageboxes and Cases, Stairs, Risers, Trusses, the sections that most often appear on the same drawing.
