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Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig. 
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Post Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
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So: I have the Focusrite racked up in our live rig now here at Snaxodrome II. The useful little bastard has four pairs of stereo outs, and I've put them to good use. Outs 3-4 are feeding the 01V all the happy horseshit we can't be arsed with playing live- drum machines, softsynths, random noises, washy pads and the like. Output 5 is feeding the 01V a click track.

Now, the nifty bit with the 01V is that in addition to the main and monitor mixes, the aux sends can be used to create four separate monitor mixes with full preset control and automation! A different mix for everyone for every song? Totally do-able. So three monitor mixes feed Sennheiser wireless IEM systems and a fourth feeds a Samson headphone amp behind the drum kit, as the drummer can get away with a wired system. And he can have as much or as little click as he needs as it's on its own channel on the board.

For the time being, we daisy-chained all the MIDI stuff- Prophet, Kurzweil, Roland sampler, the MIDI stuff in the guitar rigs (Diezel, TC, Eventide)- off the Focusrite's MIDI out. We don't need that many channels anyway. But it changes our patches for us, fires off sequences and samples and whatever else we need it to do.

This is all running off a Mac Mini at the bottom of the rack. (Snow Leopard/Logic 8, FWIW. We're planning on upgrading to 9 in the near future.) Which will in the very near future be feeding a Enntec DMXIS to run our lights properly and an Epson projector. All off one Logic file, too. A whopping five tracks. :lol:

...oh, and outputs 1 & 2 of the Focusrite are feeding the poweramp for the monitors, with the other Firewire port connected to the recording rig. These, necessarily, will not go with us.

Truly, we are Captains Of Industry. :dastardly:

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Post Re: Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
I approve of this.


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Post Re: Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
As well you should!

It's, I think, an elegantly simple solution to controlling a stripped-down club-sized version of a big ridiculous industrial rawk show. It all fits in a rolling rack our other guitarist built. All we have to do is feed the main outs from our board to the house system. We have our own snake, mics, and whatnot- that's just how we roll. I'd like a permanent soundguy, but there's a few people who can competently operate the thing and have done Good Work for us.

And it doubles as a nice PA and recording setup for the studio, too. Run the other Firewire out on the Saffire to whatever computer we'd like, plug the outboard in the back and we're good to go.

I'm big on having purpose-designed systems rather than haphazard collections of gear.

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Sounds like you got some fancy pants there, mister. :isay:

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Well, they do have pinstripes.

My pants, that is.

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Post Re: Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
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As well you should!

It's, I think, an elegantly simple solution to controlling a stripped-down club-sized version of a big ridiculous industrial rawk show. It all fits in a rolling rack our other guitarist built. All we have to do is feed the main outs from our board to the house system. We have our own snake, mics, and whatnot- that's just how we roll. I'd like a permanent soundguy, but there's a few people who can competently operate the thing and have done Good Work for us.

And it doubles as a nice PA and recording setup for the studio, too. Run the other Firewire out on the Saffire to whatever computer we'd like, plug the outboard in the back and we're good to go.

I'm big on having purpose-designed systems rather than haphazard collections of gear.


I have haphazard collections of gear. Some of which I don't even use. :lol:


Like my GSP-5. Who the fuck has a use for an FX processor that doesn't have FX loop friendly inputs? It has 2 instrument level inputs. Waddafack?


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Post Re: Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
What the hell? :lol:

Do any of your amps have a +4/-10 switch for the loop levels?

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Post Re: Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
Oh I approve of this greatly.

Also the thought of this rig takes the wrinkles out of my fancy pants. :plot2:

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Post Re: Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
Snaxocaster wrote:
What the hell? :lol:

Do any of your amps have a +4/-10 switch for the loop levels?


:lol: Nope.


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Post Re: Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
then you must acquire moar mapz that have such. Do this and get back to us.

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Post Re: Recording gear repurposed: Garda's live rig.
...aaaaaaand our DMX controller won't work with the Mini.

So we're looking into building a rackmount Hackintosh. :lol:

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