Sounya Sharma

Nov 5 · 1:00p · 30 min · Devcon 8 Music Space, Mumbai

DRAFT rider. Built 27 Oct 2026 from the artist’s own words where they wrote to us, and from their application form where they have not yet. Never a guessed connector — where we don’t know, the page asks.

🗓️ Who / when


Set	Wed 5 Nov · 1:00p (IST) · 30 min — ⚠ this time is NOT settled, see below
Who's playing	Solo — voice + guitar, her own originals.
⚠ Slot confusion	The Devcon app shows her Nov 3, 12:00; our live page shows Nov 5, 1:00p; she was told Nov 5, 1:30 last week. Her arrival date also reads differently in two of her own emails (Nov 3 evening vs Nov 4 morning). Shaka is answering her himself. Until he does, treat the time on this rider as provisional — the rest of the rider is unaffected.

🎒 They bring

Her voice
Her guitar — "Guitar" is her whole answer to what she brings

What she asked us for: "bluetooth connection, Mike, Speaker."

🔌 They plug into — connector by connector

#	What	Out of her side	Into the floor	Board
1	Her voice	—	SM58 on a stand → XLR	1 ch
2	Her guitar	¼" if it has a pickup → DI box → XLR. No pickup → a mic in front (SM57 / condenser). Ask her: is there a jack socket on your guitar?	depends on the guitar	1 ch
3–4	"Bluetooth connection"	🚨 We need to know what this is for — backing tracks from her phone? a click? a drone?	see the honest note below	2 ch

🔵 About Bluetooth, in plain words: Bluetooth audio is not a good way to get sound into a PA. It adds a delay of roughly a tenth of a second (so her voice and her track drift apart), it drops out when a room is full of phones, and it is the first thing to fail in a convention centre. The wired version of the same idea is better and costs nothing: a 3.5 mm → dual ¼" cable from her phone's headphone socket (or a USB-C adapter if her phone has no socket) straight into two line inputs. Same result, no delay, no dropouts.

We are not deciding this for her — we're asking what the Bluetooth is for, and offering the cable.

Channels on the board: 2 (voice + guitar) · 4 if a track lane is used.

🏠 House provides (what Amogh listed, 26 Oct)

Mixer board with open channels — how many channels, nobody has told us yet (after 4 pm the board is shared/open for anyone).
Mics: SM57 / SM58 (vocal + instrument) and ambient mics.
One 6.35 mm (¼") jack on the floor for instruments.
PA (the room's speakers).
Nothing else is confirmed. Monitors, DI boxes, a keyboard, a DJ deck, power strips, tables: all still open questions — see below.

❓ Still missing / open

What is the Bluetooth for? (backing track / click / something else) — then: can she use a wired 3.5 mm → dual ¼" instead? Does her phone have a headphone socket, or does she need a USB-C → 3.5 mm adapter?
Pickup or no pickup on her guitar → DI box or a second mic.
Mic stand · a monitor wedge · a guitar stand.
🗓️ Her actual set time. Three different times are in circulation. This is the one thing on her rider she can't fix herself.
The volunteer-slot information we still owe her (not a rider item — but it's owed).

🗺️ Stage plot

(the one place we say "stage" — it's the technical word. Everywhere else: the floor, the circle.)


                      the circle
          ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·
       ·        the songwriters' hour         ·
     ·        [SM58 on stand]                 ·
    ·              |                          ·
    ·         SOUNYA (voice + guitar)         ·
    ·              |                          ·
    ·     pickup? --> [DI] --> XLR            ·
    ·     no pickup? --> [SM57 on stand]      ·
    ·                                         ·
    ·   [her phone] --3.5mm--> dual ¼"        ·
    ·        (instead of bluetooth)           ·
    ·        ~~ monitor wedge ~~              ·
     ·                                       ·
          ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·

📣 One line for Amogh

🎛️ Status

She replied warmly and chose originals herself. Two small questions (Bluetooth for what? guitar pickup?) and one scheduling answer finish this.