Mic plot
Also called: Microphone plot, RF plot, Mic chart.
A mic plot is the grid that assigns wireless microphones to performers scene by scene: which channel each actor wears, when a mic is handed from one performer to another, and which channels are live in each number. It is how a production with twelve mics and thirty performers gets everyone heard, and it is the sound team's and the A2's working document.
In CueCall
The Mic Plot under the Tech tab is a character-by-scene grid, assigned by hand or drafted with AI from the cast list, exported to PDF or Excel, with mic cues for the scene changes drafted from it.
Features
- Mic Plot & Wireless Assignments — A mic plot generated from character and scene data, adjusted by hand in a grid, and exported or imported.
How it works in CueCall
- Mic Plot (Tech Tab): Reading the Mic Plot Grid — The grid shows characters down the left and scenes across the top. On a long show the grid scrolls inside its own box, and the scene numbers and character names stay in place while you scroll, so you…
- Mic Plot (Tech Tab): Mic Cues from the Mic Plot — On the Mic Plot tab, Generate and Import both offer Also add mic cues for each scene. The mic plot says who wears which mic; ticking this also writes the mic cues that open and close those mics, so…
Related terms
- A2 — The A2 is the second audio person on a production, working backstage while the A1 mixes the show from the house: fitting and swapping wireless mics, changing…
- Cue sheet — A cue sheet lists every technical cue in a production in running order, with its number, its department (lighting, sound, fly, automation, followspot…
- Scene breakdown — A scene breakdown divides the script into its scenes and records, for each, who is in it, where and when it is set, and what it needs: props, costumes, set…
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