Classic Rock Cover Band Stage Plot Template for Bar Gigs

What this template covers

This classic rock cover band stage plot template is built for the working bar band lineup: guitar, bass, drums, a keys player running a Hammond through a Leslie cabinet, and a frontman who just sings. The Hammond and Leslie is mic'd the way it actually gets tracked and mixed live, a pair of condensers on the rotating treble horn for left and right, plus a dynamic on the bottom rotor for the bass end. It is a small detail, but it is the difference between an organ that sits in the mix and one that fights it.

A Hammond and Leslie takes real floor space and needs a flat, level surface, so plan the riser or floor position before load in rather than during it. If the room is small enough that a full Leslie cabinet will not fit, a keyboard amp with a rotary simulator on the same channel plan still reads clean on the input list.

The input list derives a full kit, one mic'd guitar cab, a DI'd bass, three Hammond and Leslie channels, and three vocal mics for the frontman, guitarist and keys player, who both grab harmony on the choruses.

How to use it

Open the template and adjust it to your real stage size, since bar stages vary more than club stages do. Rename the vocal channels, swap the Hammond for a stage piano if that is what your keys player actually runs, and move wedges to match your monitor count.

• Four piece kit, fully mic'd
• Guitar amp, mic'd, stage left
• Bass on a DI, cab shown for backline only
• Hammond and Leslie, mic'd top left and right plus bottom rotor
• Frontman on lead vocal, harmony from guitar and keys

Share the link with the bar's engineer before you load in, so a three hour covers set does not start with a scramble over channel assignments.