#1 Rule when Playing Live? Nice and Easy

I had an acoustic live set epiphany this morning. Obviously it’s going to be me and an acoustic guitar, because it’s being billed as an acoustic set by me. I have the Fender Highway dreadnought, and I love it. The battery-powered preamp is good. In a pinch, I can plug straight into a mixer. I can also plug straight into something like the MPC to record. For the gig, I’ll use a DI, because it’s always better to plug into the floor. For reasons I don’t fully understand, DI even with a preamp is better. Something about impedance and the like. The part I don’t totally understand is what happens when there’s already a preamp in the guitar. Anyway. I’m going to run with this and the MPC. I was originally thinking maybe I’d make one drum set for each track, but now I think I’m just going to make one project/ one kit for the whole gig. I'll sample my TT-78, which is the Cyclone Analogic clone of the classic Roland CR-78 drum machine. Then I’ll have two synths running in pentatonic mode, and I…