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Re: Going battery powered?

roland AC-33 is very nice sounding, not sure how it compares in size and weight
ets----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com> 
To: "Tom Swirly" <tom@swirly.com>
Cc: "Loopers-Delight" <loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: Going battery powered?
I put together a portable rig, attached to a marching percussion, snare drum assembly 
back in 2003 or 2004 at the looping festival.

It had a Line 6 DL-4 (6 'C' batteries),
a battery powered micro mixer...........a battery powered headset microphone and a battery powered amplifier (currently a little 5 watt VOX guitar amplifier that sits in 
side of a small back pack).

I also had a Boss Intellishifter (9 volt).

Anyway,  I'm about to reproduce this setup
except that this time I will use a Looperlative LP-2 Mini Looper (runs on a 9 volt battery) 
in the place of the DL-4.

All of this worked well, though the guitar amplifier is NOT full spectrum.
Who knows of a very small and portable, fulll spectrum P.A. system that will sound better but be as light as a VOX 5 watt, battery powered guitar amplifier? 


Rick Walker




On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Tom Swirly wrote:

Hello, Loopies.

I've been wanting to do street gigs for a while now.
I've completely stripped my setup down, do all my looping in the computer, and I think it's in principle achievable, but I can't seem to quite find the right setup to put it together.
The computer has its own batteries, the interface runs off the computer. However, I have one 9V unit (a Yamaha VL-70) and of course I'd need amplification.
The idea thing would be a battery-powered amp that also had a 9V output (invertible) and that was rechargeable on 110V/220V. I've searched but unfortunately these terms are all common in amp descriptions, appropriate or not.
I'm also wondering whether I couldn't rig together something from off-the-rack electronics parts... I get a "big battery", step its power to 9V and whatever an amp uses internally, and then get rid of the amp's internal transformer.... my knowledge of practical electronics is small but I speak the language and know people who could put things together for me... 


Thoughts?
By the way, I'm gigging quite a bit more these days, drop me a line if you aren't on my mailing list and would like to be. 


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