Rig News
Posted By Scott on August 14, 2010
The rig is always changing. Last Spring I got a TAMA drum throne seat which I like. I added onto the seat a Roc N Sock seat back. I also got a floor matte from Office Max so I didnt’ wear out the carpet around the seat. Recently I got a new Dell 22″ flat panel monitor that plugs into my laptop, amazingly those monitors are only $150 at Best Buy. I can position that monitor on the teir arms on the keyboard. So if I have electronic lessons I place it there and that works out great. If I am doing recordng the big monitor helps out a bunch giving me plenty of screen space for Sonar LE windows.
My foot switch collection
I’ve been fighting foot pedals all year it seems. I first used an Roland EV-5 to click the drum machine on and off on the Juno Stage. Then I started using both the BOSS DR-880 and the internal Juno Stage drum machines. So I purchased a BOSS FS-6 dual switch where I had a separate cable going to the Juno Stage and other to the BOSS DR-880. Unfortunately if you don’t unplug the cables after you are done every day the little 9v battery goes dead after several days in that FS-6. That sucks and surely I would not care for that worry if I was doing gigs so now I’m using two of the little Roland DP-2 foot switches. The DP-2 is relatively cheap and doesn’t use a battery.
The Juno Stage Rig as of August 2010
I also purchased used on EBAY an OnStage laptop/mixer stand that I had planned to put the Dell 22″ Monitor on. But that doesn’t work out at all as you can’t get it as close I a need for my eyes to read music on it. Anyway I put one of my KC-60′s on it and the other KC-60 on top the subwoofer. Before I used just one KC-60. I like the more stereo sound I’m hearing but for some reason I can’t turn the volume up near as loud now as we get feedback easily in the mike. With both right and left mixer jacks going into one KC-60 we can turn it up loud without feed back .. I don’t understand why that is. I’ve had the Roland PK-5A pedal unit for several months now but I’m not very fond of it. Just a little bit of practice on it seems to make the left leg tired and also my back cramp. I am going to start doing some basic scale drills on it each day spending at least 30 minutes. If I find I don’t like it .. well it’s gona go on the EBAY block. Other rig news is I’ve sold my vintage Roland PRO-E arranger keyboards. I found I just didn’t like playing on 37 keys.
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