The Rack Mounted Gtr icon draws a guitar at a believable footprint instead of a placeholder box. On a stage plot it marks a player position and the signal path that comes with it, which is what lets a venue crew read the plan in a single pass.
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. Guitar positions sit downstage of the backline they use, angled in toward the drummer so the player can hold time by eye as well as by ear. 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. State whether guitars run through amps or straight to a DI. That single line decides roughly half the channel list.
Rack Mounted Gtr produces one channel on the input list, defaulting to a Dynamic input, a boom stand and phantom power off. It sorts at position 4 in the drums first, vocals last channel order that front of house engineers expect. Change any of it per plot; the default just means you rarely have to.
Channel names travel with the plot. Export a scene file for an X32, M32, or Wing, or a channel name CSV for dLive, Avantis, SQ, DiGiCo, and Yamaha CL and QL. See the console guides.
More Guitars
17 icons share the Guitars section of the palette. These are the ones most often placed alongside Rack Mounted Gtr.
Marks a player position and the signal path that comes with it is only part of the picture. These icons come from Amps, AC & DI and People, the sections that most often appear on the same drawing.
