For sound engineers & production

Technical Specification

We're fully self-contained. You mix the house, we mix our own in-ears.

Everything on stage runs into our own Behringer X18 and our own split. One leg of that split feeds the X18, which we use to mix our in-ears. The other leg passes straight through to front of house as individual channels — so you get clean, isolated inputs and never have to worry about our monitoring.

Nothing of ours goes direct to your desk. It all arrives via our split. The only channels you provide are the drum mics.

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Front of House Input List

Fifteen inputs in total — eight from our split, seven for the drums. Patch them wherever suits your desk.

Source Player Connection Supplied by
From our stage split
Lead vocalJames XLR, via TC Electronic vocal processor Band
GuitarJames DI — Neural DSP Quad Cortex mono Band
GuitarRob DI — Boss GT-1000 mono Band
BassRoss DI mono Band
Keys LRoss DI stereo pair Band
Keys RRoss DI stereo pair Band
VocalRoss XLR Band
VocalGlenn XLR Band
Drum kit — your mics, straight to your desk
KickGlennMicVenue
SnareGlennMicVenue
Hi-hatGlennMicVenue
Tom 1GlennMicVenue
Tom 2GlennMicVenue
Overhead LGlennMicVenue
Overhead RGlennMicVenue

Who Plays What

James Lead vocals & guitar

  • Vocal — microphone into a TC Electronic vocal processor, then into our split
  • Guitar — Neural DSP Quad Cortex, direct. No amp, no cab, nothing to mic

Rob Lead guitar

  • Guitar — Boss GT-1000, direct. No amp, no cab, nothing to mic

Ross Bass, keys & vocals

  • Bass — direct
  • Keyboard — direct, stereo pair
  • Vocal — microphone into our split

Glenn Drums & vocals

  • Kit — we'd normally ask you to provide the kit. Glenn brings his own breakables (snare, cymbals, pedals and sticks)
  • Mics — miked by the venue, straight into your desk
  • Vocal — microphone into our split

Stage Plan

Viewed from the audience. Stage left / right are from the band's perspective.

Artificial Monkeys stage plan Top-down stage plan. Glenn on drums centre back. Rob on guitar on the audience left. Ross on bass and keys on the audience right. James on lead vocals and guitar centre front. The band's X18 and stage split sit upstage right, with a pass-through feed to front of house. BACK OF STAGE GLENN Drums & vocal Venue kit & mics X18 + SPLIT Band supplied Pass-through to FOH TO FOH ROB Lead guitar Boss GT-1000 Direct — no amp ROSS Bass, keys & vocal Bass DI · Keys DI (st) Needs mic stand JAMES Lead vocal & guitar Quad Cortex · TC vocal Needs boom stand STAGE RIGHT STAGE LEFT AUDIENCE

Band supplied Venue supplied

What We Bring

  • Behringer X18 and our own stage split, with a pass-through feed to front of house
  • In-ear monitoring — a mix of wired and wireless packs. We mix our own, so we need no wedges from you
  • All backline: Quad Cortex, Boss GT-1000, bass, keyboard and the TC Electronic vocal processor
  • Glenn's breakables — snare, cymbals, pedals and sticks
  • Three vocal microphones
  • All our own cabling up to the split

What We Need From You

  • A front of house desk with fifteen free inputs — eight from our split, seven for drums
  • A drum kit. Glenn brings his own breakables, so we just need the shells, stands and throne. If you can't provide a kit we can bring a full one, but there may be an extra charge for transport or hire — ask us early and we'll sort it
  • Full drum mic-up: kick, snare, hi-hat, 2 toms, 2 overheads
  • Three microphone stands — one boom for James, plus Ross and Glenn
  • Mains power to the stage for our backline and rack
  • Occasionally a single aux send back from front of house into our rack, so we can get the drums into our in-ears. Handy, not essential
  • A competent front of house engineer, or let us know in advance if not

Questions About the Spec?

If anything here doesn't fit your room, tell us early and we'll work around it — we've played everything from festival stages to tight club corners.

Booking Enquiry Call 07897 020817

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