Re: Battery Powered suggestions [busking loops]

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

There's a product called the "Far Outlet" (ha ha) from Galaxy Audio 
that will provide portable AC power. However I made something similar 
and cheaper with a gel-cell battery pack designed for emergency car 
starting, and a 12VDC-120VAC inverter. It was enough to power an 
Eventide H3000, DAT recorder, Mackie mixer and a Cambridge Soundworks 
Model 11 "suitcase" amp/speaker setup.

The first time I used this rig for looping, in a concrete bunker in 
the Marin Headlands, was a lot of fun-- my pal Patti sang down in the 
tunnels, into a close mic feeding the Eventide 10 sec loop which 
played back into speakers even farther down in the chamber, for a 
nice combination of electronic and acoustic regeneration. Then we 
recorded the whole mess to DAT with a separate stereo mic.

The best part was when a park ranger came along and cited us for 
"recording music without a permit on federal land". Of course I had 
left the system going when he approached us so there are snippets of 
"may I see your driver's license" and "who owns this equipment" in 
the recording :-).

I took the citation to court where the clerk laughingly dismissed it, 
but only after taking quite some time to determine that there was in 
fact such a law on the books. At first he thought the park ranger had 
just made it up.

I guess this was more of a bust than a busk, but anyway I felt it was 
a story worth repeating, so to speak.

-Alex S.

At 8:49 PM -0800 1/11/01, david auker wrote:
>Wow, a rechargable amp...and batteries in the DL-4.
>
>Any suggestions on how a keyboardist could power up on the street w/o an
>extension cord?
>
>Guitar envy,
>David
>
>==
>Tiktok wrote:
>
>  > I've done busking with an Ovation, DL-4 and Pignose Hog-20.