To our friends in charge of sound systems:

Shalom! First of all, take a deep breath, and relax,

This list is not a requirement for us to play at your event!!

It’s just easier, and less time consuming to use an in-house system, if available. We have enough equipment to do an independent setup if necessary, but the older we get, the easier we try to make things! Now, having said that;

We need;

1. 11, sometimes 12 open channels on your system.

2 A snake with sufficient connectors, and length to reach to mixer.

3. 2 wedge floor monitors, or, 4 wireless in-ear-monitors

(Shure or equivalent, Please - no Nady, Samson, Or Radio Shack!)

We can also use stand-mount hot spots, etc.

4. A monitor mix, separate from the main (house) mix.

5. At least 2 main speakers, mounted, or on stands w/cables.

  1. 12’ x 20’ empty stage, with no trip hazards for dancers. (cables,

stationary podiums, raised patch bays, etc.).If you have a smaller

stage, we can use a separate floor area for some of the dances that

travel more. Please clear the stage area before we arrive, if possible, it

helps shorten the setup time!

7. If possible it would be helpful to have the sound person who will be running the mix, on site about 1-1/2 Hrs. after we arrive, to finalize the connections, and audio mix. If they don’t mind waiting around while we set up instruments, and equipment, they are most welcome to be there from the beginning, and we can always use help un-loading!But the first hour and a half are pretty boring, with not much for the audio person to do!

  1. We need at least 3 hours, with full access to the facility, to set up, change, and possibly eat.

Setup takes time, and a sound person with a servant’s heart!

We have quiet instruments like the harp, and two Lyres, along with African & Arabic hand drums, 4 vocalists, 2 guitars, an electric piano, an oud, and some background tracks, so having enough time to get everything set up and balanced correctly is very important.

This is what we need, to do our best for your group, with a minimum of stress. If any of these are a problem for you, please let us know as soon as possible, so we can know how much of our own audio equipment we need to use

These pictures are out-dated, and reversed, but should help visualize our general set-up. This stage was generously sized, (I think 30 x 50), the monitor set-up was mega-cool, as we usually only get 1 or 2 floor monitors, with one mix. For this event we had 4 monitor mixes, (overkill, but sooo nice!)

Note; we always try to run the snake, and cables in the back, leaving a front-central area clear for on-stage dance, and to minimize trip-hazards.

Here’s a typical input assignment list for your soundperson, w/breakdown.

From the left, facing the stage;

1.Left vocal (Kerah) on a Sennheiser 835e dynamic mic.

2.Middle vocal (Natanyah) “ “

3.Right vocal (Shimrit). “ “

4.Drum vocal (Mark)

5.Lyre (Kerah) Direct Box- XLR. cable

6.Left guitar (Kerah) D.Box- XLR.

7.Piano (Kerah) D. box- XLR

8.Harp (Shimrit) condenser mic (needs 48V phantom power.)

9. Drum submix, D. box- XLR cable

10. Playback track mixer, D.Box- XLR.

11. Right guitar (Mark) D.Box- XLR.

12. sometimes, theOud (Mark) D.Box- XLR.

We have our own Mics, cables, stands, and Direct boxes. Also a powered (built in amplifiers) mixer & main speakers when needed. Unfortunately, no monitor speakers, or snake.

If necessary, I can run the Right guitar and Oud on the same input, keeping us at 11 channels, but they are very different in tone, and output.

Hope this helps, any Q; call me at 316 259 4106, afternoons are best, if you want to avoid the answering machine.

Thanks for your ministry to us!!!

Mark Hanes @ Zemer Levav