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Good Morning Everyone, Hope you had a great new years eve celebration.
I've just decided to start becoming a productive member of society, at least untill the hangover kicks in but I have a few questions to ask the wise ones that haunt these boards.
Yet again I find myself waiting on another piece of gear from Thomann and its got me to thinking.
When I play live I come in two formats;
Anyway The band uses a compressor live along with the amp and I was starting to wonder about how I should build my first rack,
Until now its just been a question of lug along the gear and play away but since I'm finding I miss having things on hand (as sometimes I may have quite a few beers at the gigs and just leave my gear in the pub's for collection at a later date) I should build a rack and have all my outbound gear for both studio and live use in one nice little package
I'm also thinking of using my new toy (an M-Audio Fasttrack Ultra 8r) live to play some tracks in the background that I'd mix in the studio and use the 8 outputs as instruments on my desk but this is much further down the line I've always hated backing tracks but see them as less evil If I record them myself.
AAAAAAAAAAnyway I was wondering would you guys suggest using two seperate racks or just the one and cable it in whenever I get home / to a gig
If its just one rack it'll be an 8u containing;
Everything will hit the patch bay and I'd say that'll help my cause for rewiring
Also I was wondering will a normal (studio) rack cut it or will I go for a live one with wheels?
Thanks Guys
EDIT: WOOOH POST 150!!! Go ME!
I've just decided to start becoming a productive member of society, at least untill the hangover kicks in but I have a few questions to ask the wise ones that haunt these boards.
Yet again I find myself waiting on another piece of gear from Thomann and its got me to thinking.
When I play live I come in two formats;
- One man Band, This is the money maker and I generally only use a power amp
- 4 Piece cover band, This is my other baby me and a few friends do it for extra drinking money, after all if you can't drink your way through a recession, your just not doing it right.
Anyway The band uses a compressor live along with the amp and I was starting to wonder about how I should build my first rack,
Until now its just been a question of lug along the gear and play away but since I'm finding I miss having things on hand (as sometimes I may have quite a few beers at the gigs and just leave my gear in the pub's for collection at a later date) I should build a rack and have all my outbound gear for both studio and live use in one nice little package
I'm also thinking of using my new toy (an M-Audio Fasttrack Ultra 8r) live to play some tracks in the background that I'd mix in the studio and use the 8 outputs as instruments on my desk but this is much further down the line I've always hated backing tracks but see them as less evil If I record them myself.
AAAAAAAAAAnyway I was wondering would you guys suggest using two seperate racks or just the one and cable it in whenever I get home / to a gig
If its just one rack it'll be an 8u containing;
- Power Amp [2u]
- Compressor [1u]
- Mic Pre Amp [1u]
- Interface [1u]
- Patchbay [1u]
Everything will hit the patch bay and I'd say that'll help my cause for rewiring
Also I was wondering will a normal (studio) rack cut it or will I go for a live one with wheels?
Thanks Guys
EDIT: WOOOH POST 150!!! Go ME!
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