All quiet on the western front!
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:16 pm
Hello? Any anoraks out there? It's all been a bit quiet recently, where are you all?
As far as I've been concerned things have been pretty busy. Ash's band The Blues Machine had their first commercial gig last week which found me in the role of roadie/sound engneer/transport manger and guitar techie....all of which I enjoyed greatly of course!
I've spent a fair amount of time in the studio trying to perfect the art of micing up percussion...well Congas to be precise and now consider myself a bit of an expert...well, at least I'm pleased with the result! I've also been building prototypes of my own range of 'usefull bits for live use' boxes. These are little boxes which convert something into something else when you dont have the right leads to do the job; four way inserts to send and returns, dual stereo to twin mono splitters, jack to XLR converter boxes, line splitter boxes to take feeds off to a monitor desk etc. All that sort of stuff! Next one I want to do is a trully isolated A/B selector box with a mute switch for silently changing between multiple instruments at gigs. Keep you posted on this one...could be useful. Also in the middle of designing a small but powerful PA rig for our local community events - something around 4/5K with a further 1k of foldback....the interesting bit is that I'm looking into building it as a miniature vertical array system based on the glut of cheap moulded ABS cabs that sre currently availabe from China. You'll be interested in this one Mike, I'm sure.....once again I'll post my results.
On the gig front I've played a couple and seen a few - highlights being the Jethro Tull 40th tour and Show Hands supported by Martin Simpson. This Saturday it's our dear friend Tristan Sueme playing at a cafe on the beach less than a mile from where i'm now sitting....oh it's a hard life!.
So, come on then, what you all been up to?
All the best,
Russ
As far as I've been concerned things have been pretty busy. Ash's band The Blues Machine had their first commercial gig last week which found me in the role of roadie/sound engneer/transport manger and guitar techie....all of which I enjoyed greatly of course!
I've spent a fair amount of time in the studio trying to perfect the art of micing up percussion...well Congas to be precise and now consider myself a bit of an expert...well, at least I'm pleased with the result! I've also been building prototypes of my own range of 'usefull bits for live use' boxes. These are little boxes which convert something into something else when you dont have the right leads to do the job; four way inserts to send and returns, dual stereo to twin mono splitters, jack to XLR converter boxes, line splitter boxes to take feeds off to a monitor desk etc. All that sort of stuff! Next one I want to do is a trully isolated A/B selector box with a mute switch for silently changing between multiple instruments at gigs. Keep you posted on this one...could be useful. Also in the middle of designing a small but powerful PA rig for our local community events - something around 4/5K with a further 1k of foldback....the interesting bit is that I'm looking into building it as a miniature vertical array system based on the glut of cheap moulded ABS cabs that sre currently availabe from China. You'll be interested in this one Mike, I'm sure.....once again I'll post my results.
On the gig front I've played a couple and seen a few - highlights being the Jethro Tull 40th tour and Show Hands supported by Martin Simpson. This Saturday it's our dear friend Tristan Sueme playing at a cafe on the beach less than a mile from where i'm now sitting....oh it's a hard life!.
So, come on then, what you all been up to?
All the best,
Russ