Everything backstage.
One place.
Backlion knows how a stage is actually built: which mic goes on which drum, what needs phantom power, how many lines fit in a stagebox, what an X32 routes in blocks of eight. Here is all of it.
Rider Builder
Line-up to rider
Pick what each musician plays; inputs, mics, DIs, amps, wedges, stands, cables and power are filled in.
Gear preferences
Preferred amp and alternatives, who brings it, house kit or own kit, pedalboards, racks, stereo synths.
Monitor wishes
Per musician: which sources, how much, wedges or in-ears (mono or stereo), drum fill, side fills.
Lighting wishes
Colours, avoid, strobe, haze, front light, notes; spotlights become numbered specials.
Assistant
Change the rider by saying what you want. It proposes, you preview, nothing changes until Apply.
Versions & bandmates
Every online save kept. Open an old version as a copy or restore it. The whole band edits.
Stage plans
Automatic layout
Drums upstage, front line, amps, pedalboards and wedges placed for you; wedges never overlap.
Drag, turn, hide
Move anything with undo and redo. Moved items keep their place when the band changes.
Several plans
Full show, small venue, festival: each plan with its own wedges. The venue picks the one that fits.
On your stage
Venues adjust a band’s plan for their stage without touching the band’s own rider.
Real gear drawings
The amp or kit model you pick sets the drawing on the plan.
Full screen on a phone
Double-tap for full screen, pinch to zoom, tap a musician to fade the rest.
Patch & console
House patch
Every band on your house lines by role, with their own channel numbers. Override any cell.
Desk patch
Stageboxes to console ports: local, AES50, Dante, MADI. Only what the desk can do.
Console view
Each band as channel strips in your desk’s look; drag to change the channel order.
Exports
X32 / M32 scenes, CSV patch and desk worksheets. Save to USB from laptop or phone.
Monitor mixes
Bus-to-mix sheet per band, monitor steps in every changeover.
Mix requests
Musicians ask for more or less from their phone; you mark received or done.
Running the day
Running order
Timetable worked out from first band, set length and the changeover each switch needs.
Changeovers
Checklists per crew in metres from stage right: backline, patch, monitors, lighting, desk.
Backline & shortages
Matching against your inventory, shortages per day, stand-ins from your stock.
Crew phone app
Now, Stage, Console, Routing and Views for the whole crew. Works offline once loaded.
Lighting
Specials in metres, refocus steps, the band’s wishes on show day.
Labels
Colour-coded flags for lines, labels for stageboxes and instruments, with QR codes.
Bands & venues
Slot links
Each band gets its own invite link per event; copy it or email it.
Band forms
For acts that never open the app: a form whose answers become their rider.
Freeze & review
Build from a fixed version; accept or decline updates as concrete steps.
Stage acknowledgements
Change your stage after a freeze and the band confirms they’ve seen it.
Live share links
A read-only link to the latest rider, with a QR code on the printed pages.
Teams
Bandmates and colleagues join with an invite link.
Under the hood
Six languages
English, 中文, Deutsch, Français, Italiano and Español on screen and in print, or two side by side.
Offline first
Everything you type is kept on the device straight away; editing, printing and exports work without signal.
Print & PDF
Condensed A4 or full riders, timetables, patch sheets, equipment, per-band pages, changeovers, labels.
Secure sign-in
Email and password, email codes or Google; two-step verification with an authenticator app.
Device backups
Export and restore complete Rider and Crew projects between devices.
Undo & versions
A hundred steps of undo while you work; every online save is a version you can restore.