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RE: Help with my live rig
Hi,
I'm certainly no expert, but I've also penciled around with
this kind of thing. Sounds like you'll have to control at least a
few things with your feet.
Seems like a powerful midi foot controller and pedals
(e.g. Voodoo Labs Ground Control Pro, etc) would allow you to change
routings with buttons, and adjust levels with pedals.
You may want to consider changing to FX processors
that have sufficient midi capability if the ones you currently have do
not.
and/or, a midi controller like the Novation
RemoteSL would allow you to use faders and knobs like a midi mixer.
and I think you can then use the foot controller to route things to the
RemoteSL, etc
along with MidiSolutions midi merge or thru boxes,
you can achieve a lot of controls, but you'll need a few sharp pencils
:-)
-Qua
Hey all, I have a conundrum I've been penciling around with for months
trying to come up with a solution, but I can't quite find it on my own.
When I play at home, I run everything through one mixer: two mics, guitar,
two Lexicon JamMen, and at least one FX loop. When my hands are not playing
guitar, they are on the channel aux sends. Its important for me to be able
to adjust them myself in real-time, so I can be re-routing what goes where (Jams
to FX, Mic to Jams, Guitar to FX, Mic out of FX, etc).
But when I perform out live, I don't get to do this and many of my pieces
are truncated. I send all signals directly to the house mixer and don't get any
control myself. I could have my mixer on stage with me, and send stereo
mains to the house, but I can't afford the hand-time to be EQing and riding
fader levels to balance it out. I've prioritzed that to the foh engineer. I
could tell him in the middle of a song, "Hey, turn aux 3 on channel four up to
12 o'clock!" but it is kindof a mood killer.
So how do I get to control aux sends from onstage, and an engineer to
control EQ and fader levels from front of house? Is it possible? To make things
even more difficult, I've built my rig and reputation on not using computers (as
in laptops) onstage, so I'd probably not use any of the software options (if
there are any).
Anybody else have this problem? Solutions?
David
