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Hi..... I thought about getting a 7-string guitar since you can get some decent low end going on with those beasts and still sound rather guitar-like. I was playing a $550 ESP LTD the other day and it played and sounded really good - I was surprised. That should work pretty well for flying off into any key. As far as getting decent percussion loops going - I'm really familar with the Roland R-5 human rhythm composer. I could probably have at least 20 different preprogrammed things ready to go and still create something on the fly in a way that would sound artistic. So, my current gear is: Mesa Studio preamp, Lexicon vortex with pedal, roland JC-120 with footswitch, then whatever guitar I feel like bringing (either a Heartfield EX-2, a Jackson Soloist or a Washburn acoustic-electric cutaway). Cool setup tips here though. On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, K. Douglas Baldwin wrote: > > > > >K. Douglas Baldwin wrote a message about doing a gig with a Roland D-50, > >several amps, a PA, a marshall stack, a kitchen sink, and several large > >pack animals to carry it all. > > > Yes, and the worst part was getting the grand piano over the Alps. > > >I thought about the smallest possible amount of stuff to bring on a gig > >and came up with this configuration: > > > >Guitar: Steinberger (the little square one with no headstock), > >FX Unit: Line 6 Pod (it's really small and sounds good) > >Looper: Akai Headrush or Boomerang (the Akai is small, Boomerang less >so) > >Drum Machine: New ZOOM unit (could replace FX unit above) > >Keyboard: Tiny $100 casio with MIDI into more expensive sound module* > > > >*Dave Torn has done this live! > > > >The only problem would be the amplifier; even a Roland JC-77 is rather > >heavy (not as heavy as the JC-120), but these amps are clean and loud > >and would amplify the above nicely. > > > >You could actually do okay with a rig like this and it wouldn't weigh > >a lot and would work fairly well I would think. Experiment! > > > >Todd Madson > >Musician, Mountain Biker, Stunt Kite Flyer, BeOS/MacOS/Linux/WinNt user. > >http://www.waste.org/~crash/index.html > > > Tahnx, Todd. And good advice. I may take a Crate Acoustic Guitar amp out > (the 120 watt model) for it's combination of very clean tone and relative > light weight, but I am also addicted to big ol' tube amps. I like sounds > that are real trad guitar as well as indefinable deep space (Mr. Torn is >a > good reference, actually) so I will probably haul something around for >that > sound as well. As for the drum machine and keyboard, it all got too > constricting for me. I like to fly off into any key (or no key) at any > moment, and I like to play the guitar, not push buttons. Button pushing >for > music making is fine, it's just not me. > The setup at the moment seems to include: guitar (Hohner/Steinberger >or > Yamaha > Pacifica) into Rat distortion, Digitech Whammy, Alesis Microverb and >Mooger > fooger Ring Modulator, then into Akai Headrush and out to Crate amp. I >need > to experiment with adding a tube preamp, probably between the Rat and > Whammy, then an A/B switch to route the signal to either the >Headrush/Crate > or tube power amp for soloing over loops. This is a work in progress, and > will always be so. > For absolute minimalism, I could use the Hohnberger, Rat, Headrush >and > Crate (and maybe the Whammy) and be very happy. > > Douglas Baldwin, Alpha male Coyote, the Trickster > dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us > > >