Author Topic: Rig Pics (Read 503 times)

David Houck · « **Reply #30 on:** May 31, 2011, 04:51:59 PM »

My computer took this picture; not great quality, but you get the basic idea. It's never been out of the house, but it's what I practice through every day; you can really hear the mistakes. You can also really hear how beautiful an Alembic can sound.

edwin · « **Reply #31 on:** May 31, 2011, 07:08:43 PM »

Nice rig, Dave! What's on the pedal board? I like the stereo-ness!

edwin · « **Reply #32 on:** May 31, 2011, 07:29:50 PM »

OK, update to my rig. I finished the top cabinet last Thursday at 11PM. By 11AM on Friday I was off to the grand reopening of the State Bridge Amphitheater where my rig was the house rig for 4 days of festival. I got to headline Friday and Saturday, played an acoustic set Monday and sit in with my old band, Great American Taxi, on Sunday night. I also multitracked the whole festival (multitasked!). It was a great time all around with a wide variety of excellent music, ranging from acoustic chamber Americana to reggae, funk, rock and electronica (which seems ubiquitous at this point). My rig handled raging 5 string electrics and upright basses with equal aplomb. It was great to hear it from out front and I had a couple bands use my new Series I to hear what sounded like out front. It was fun to watch people unaccustomed to Alembics start out with it, trying to dig in to the low end like they were used to before they realized the huge dynamic range available and that there's no need to overplay the bass to get impact and there's so many tones available by just varying touch. It was a such a pleasure to play through this rig in conjunction with the PA that was there and the excellent sound guy that we had. The Alembic provided a bottom that none of the other basses had.

David Houck · « **Reply #33 on:** June 01, 2011, 10:03:52 AM »

Edwin; the pedal board has a Rocktron All Access midi controller, Yamaha MFC10 midi controller, and, including the one on the MFC10, four expression pedals.

byrdland · « **Reply #34 on:** June 14, 2011, 01:03:33 PM »

And now for something completely different: I'm
writing with a question.

Here's the context: I gave up the GK800rb and two Ampeg cabinets when I stopped playing out regularly in a cover band (SugarDaddy). Now I play Contemporary Christian music at church through the PA and use a GK 400rb and Dr Bass 2x10 as my onstage monitor.

I actually play light, mostly fingerstyle (on my Persuader Vector with a single P-bass type pickup) and the music director and I differ on bass sound; he wants more upper mids to cut through and I like bottom. We do it his way.

My home rig - and what I'll use for whatever gigs may be ahead of me (probably in a three or four-piece low-volume/small venue group) - consists of a Markbass Little Mark II and Acme LowB1, Series II - and Klotz cable because it makes a difference.
Jim

The Question: Any suggestions on a single relatively low-cost addition to add a bit of hair to my sound?

I'm going to pull the BBE Sonic Stomp from my guitar pedal board and use it at practice tomorrow night, but I'm thinking about SansAmp or other small pedals or even a multi-effect pedal setup. I love having a very compact and lightweight but powerful rig so would rather avoid adding a rack case, even though what I've heard through and about the SansAmp RBI is enticing ... and if I had a multieffect rig that sounded good, I'm sure I would play with the possibilities.

Have at it amigos! Remember, I'm 62 and way past carrying 300lbs of gear at 3:00AM! Cheers,

David Houck · « **Reply #35 on:** June 14, 2011, 04:26:58 PM »

I'm way past doing anything at 3:00AM!

byrdland · « **Reply #36 on:** June 14, 2011, 05:20:21 PM »

Funny, Dave. Well, sort of, if you know what I mean.

I'm about at the point where I get up and wander the house for an hour at about the same time of night/morning that I used to go out for breakfast after the gig, the load out, and the after hours place.

The old routine was more fun in some ways, but this time of life is better in so many ways.

David Houck · « **Reply #37 on:** June 14, 2011, 06:21:22 PM »

I've been trying to break myself of bar-time, but it's difficult; I'm often drawn to practice late at night.

On the subject of SansAmp, you might want to run a site search; there have many threads that have talked about them, and you might run across just the information you're looking for. The only SansAmp I'm familiar with is the PSA-1, which is rack mount.

bigredbass · « **Reply #38 on:** June 14, 2011, 09:56:23 PM »

Whenever I see a rig with an extremely hi-fi cabinet like an Acme, and the question is the one you've asked, I often wonder IF you substituted a (fill-in the blank here for your favorite very-average-sounding, el-cheapo bass cabinet), would that do the trick?

I've often found myself over the years continually torn between a preamp/power amp/serious cabinet rig (great depth, but too clean) and the usual-suspects bass head / average cabinet (nice tone at moderate gain, but no steam if I've gotta put the hammer down).

If you know any other BP's, you might inquire about borrowing a single 15, etc., old-school without the horn or really first-rate speakers, and see what happens. Then park the Klotz, and use a molded Hosa guitar cable . . . . oh yeah, THAT'LL do it . . . .

BTW, welcome ! We don't see a lot of single-pickup Persuaders.

J o e y

811952 · « **Reply #39 on:** June 19, 2011, 05:17:20 PM »

Here's my latest setup:

Sounds great, speakers weight plenty but the head is only like five pounds (a bit over 2 kg for my metric friends). Sounds great to my ears, with plenty of power.

John

bigyouth · « **Reply #40 on:** July 18, 2011, 04:27:59 AM »

Hello
this is mysweet Rig
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/97/dscf1690u.jpg/