Post by nick robinson on Dec 16, 2007 15:49:36 GMT
(By Stephen Scott - moved from other thread)
I've been having a bit of a crisis of confidence over the last few weeks / months. It seems that everything I play is predictable and boring, using the same old ideas, same old sounds, same old gear etc. Rather than trying to get inspiration by buying new gear (as I'm sure we all do from time to time), I thought I'd program a few new sounds and fine tune my existing sounds to get everything tighter. This has helped my bleakness, but only a little.
So I started thinking what else I could do.
Well, taking inspiration from some of the recent LD threads, I thought I'd try to simplify my set up a bit. I'd previously had a complex routing system involving my Behringer 4 bus mixer - aux 1 and 2 sending to RC20 and Behringer virtualizer, the channel inserts feeding the vortex, and the 3/4 bus sending out to the Redsound loop sampler and SU20. While this did give me lots of potential flexibility, changing things around and rerouting etc still turned out to be a bit of a headache, and required far too much brain power in a live situation, so 95% of the time, I ended up using the same routing options.
With this in mind, I stripped everything back to basics, and now I have a chained signal path;
Korg multifx - Vortex - Virtualizer - Redsound sampler, which keeps everything in stereo. I only need to send 1 aux to the RC20. This gives me the 95% of everything I ever did before, plus further options that previously never existed. The main plus is that it is A LOT simpler to operate, I don't have to worry about fading things in and out. It's like a breath of fresh air, and I can think more about my playing and less about knob twiddling, etc. I've started creating some exciting new stuff with this basic rig. Hope it lasts
Of course this also means that I'll be able to get a much simpler mixer, and a nice simple 4U rack case (let's make it 6U to allow for more toys later) to put it in - goodbye to my old 'mobile' 19" rack frame, which offered no protection to the gear when carting around to gigs.
Stephen Scott
I've been having a bit of a crisis of confidence over the last few weeks / months. It seems that everything I play is predictable and boring, using the same old ideas, same old sounds, same old gear etc. Rather than trying to get inspiration by buying new gear (as I'm sure we all do from time to time), I thought I'd program a few new sounds and fine tune my existing sounds to get everything tighter. This has helped my bleakness, but only a little.
So I started thinking what else I could do.
Well, taking inspiration from some of the recent LD threads, I thought I'd try to simplify my set up a bit. I'd previously had a complex routing system involving my Behringer 4 bus mixer - aux 1 and 2 sending to RC20 and Behringer virtualizer, the channel inserts feeding the vortex, and the 3/4 bus sending out to the Redsound loop sampler and SU20. While this did give me lots of potential flexibility, changing things around and rerouting etc still turned out to be a bit of a headache, and required far too much brain power in a live situation, so 95% of the time, I ended up using the same routing options.
With this in mind, I stripped everything back to basics, and now I have a chained signal path;
Korg multifx - Vortex - Virtualizer - Redsound sampler, which keeps everything in stereo. I only need to send 1 aux to the RC20. This gives me the 95% of everything I ever did before, plus further options that previously never existed. The main plus is that it is A LOT simpler to operate, I don't have to worry about fading things in and out. It's like a breath of fresh air, and I can think more about my playing and less about knob twiddling, etc. I've started creating some exciting new stuff with this basic rig. Hope it lasts
Of course this also means that I'll be able to get a much simpler mixer, and a nice simple 4U rack case (let's make it 6U to allow for more toys later) to put it in - goodbye to my old 'mobile' 19" rack frame, which offered no protection to the gear when carting around to gigs.
Stephen Scott
