How do you actually cover a gig with an act that you are not familiar with? Well, there are two ways. The first is to use the existing show. Quite often the lighting rig is the same one that the usual LD tries to us at all his one-offs and corporate gigs. In this case, there is often a show disk with cue info in it. If each song is one big cue list where all I have to do is press a Go button, it make it easy — if you don’t know the music, it can be harder, and it won’t look as nice as it could. The other way to do a show is to just plain punt. Building a proper punt page is an art form. Usually, the more faders on a console, the better off you are for punting.
— Nook Schoenfeld, from LD-At-Large, PLSN July 2007.
