Re: craft project

[Tom Spaulding <tspauldi@gibson.com>]

Jeff-

Thanks for the chuckle! We've got walls and walls of pointy guitars with
extended cutaways and Floyd Rose whammies here in Nashville. We also have a
bunch of vintage Oberheim, Ensoniq, Roland, etc. Probably due to the fact
that this town is full of guys and gals who get free gear, and once they
lose/change their gigs, the gear gets sold in used and pawn shops. Great
shopping if you ever come by for a visit. Send me a wish list, I'll keep an
eye out for whatever.

BTW- If Mark's Vintage Synthesizers got you hot, stay far away from his
"The Beauty of the B" The Hammond B-3 Story. Probably not the thing for the
pedal-philes on this list, but if there is a latent organist in the crowd,
enjoy!!

Tom "Fattenin' up the Gear Fund" Spaulding


At 12:48 PM 1/27/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hey kids,
>If you're like me, you have a big swarm of strange cables 
>running from your pedalboard to your rack. I don't mean 
>the usual pedalboard action where the signal goes in one 
>end and out the other, but the kind where you have 
>footswitches and controllers for a bunch of rack gizmos.
>For example, I have three footswitches and a pedal for my 
>Jamster & Vortex (side note-how long do you think it'll be 
>before these suckers go up so much in price that I'll be 
>afraid to take 'em to the gig, like a flametop Les Paul?) 
>and a footswitch for a ProCo R2DU (two Rats in a 1 rack 
>space box), in other words, four 1/4" stereo cables and 1 
>MIDI cable. I carry my crap around in a soft rack case, 
>tossing the pedals and cables in the back, since all the 
>devices are quite shallow. Needless to say, I had a 
>considerable spaghetti problem.
>So, I decided to build my own snake. After a variety of 
>tape/twist-tie configurations failed, I got $.50 of fabric 
>at Ben Franklin and spent an afternoon sewing and 
>listening to Paul Bley albums. I made a tube 7.5'x 1.5" 
>and threaded my cables through it. Presto-quick and tidy 
>setup and teardown. 
>I suppose this little invention won't catch on because 
>it's getting easier and easier to get one big controller 
>that can run all your stuff or one gadget that does 
>everything and then some (G-Force? Eventide? Powerbook 
>with MAX?), but I figured I'd share my Martha Stewart 
>moment with y'all.
>Oh yeah, under no circumstances read Mark Vail's Vintage 
>Synthesizers book. It's worse than pornography. I was 
>filled with an unstoppable violent lust for gear. 
>Fortunately for my finances, the only used gear store in 
>town is full of Samick guitars and Peavey amps cast off by 
>frustrated post-grunge teenage boys... 
>-- 
>Jeff Schwartz
>jeffs@bgnet.bgsu.edu
>http://www.bgsu.edu/~jeffs/main.html
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