Show dictionary · Production Management
Changeover
A changeover is the timed reset between acts on a shared stage: the previous band’s equipment comes off, the next band’s goes on, inputs are re-patched, and a line check confirms everything passes signal, all inside a window the schedule already promised.
In practice
Festivals engineer changeovers down to minutes with rolling risers, shared backline, pre-built input lists, and a patch that stays as consistent as possible across acts. The festival patch (a superset input list every band maps into) exists specifically to make changeovers survivable.
Club shows run looser changeovers with the same anatomy: strike, set, patch, line check, walk-on. The changeover time on the day sheet is a contract between bands; the act that blows through it steals stage time from the next.
How you’ll hear it
"Fifteen-minute changeover: drums roll on the riser, A2 patches, line check by channel, go."
Related resources
Part of the eventools.io Show Dictionary, a free glossary of live event production terminology.