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At 16:58 -0500 3/7/98, future perfect wrote: > I was wondering how long it takes everyone to set up at a gig with their > looping rig- anyone have any time/space saving advice??? I'm a keyboard player so I'll try to be general. I've been told that this general approach has been helpful for a bassist friend with a large rig ... When setting up, I group the tasks so that I do them in the same order every time and thus can do things more efficiently. 1. get all of the physical objects in the right places 2. make all the power connections 3. make all the midi connections (and other things like control footpedals) 4. make all the audio connections 5. plug in the speakers What's important is not so much what the groups of tasks are -- more, it's that you have a ritual so that you're spending less time pondering what to do next. The other really big thing for me is to bundle cables as much as possible, so as to minimize the amount of time spent dealing with tangles -- it's much easier to deal with a snake of 8 audio connections than 8 separate cables (I have two of these, as well as a bundle of MIDI cables between my two racks). And tearing down always seems to happen in a rush (to get to the gig/rehearsal or to get back home) so I'm not good at coiling individual cables in a tangle-free way. I could go even further, and splice multi-pin connectors into the midst of my audio and MIDI snakes, so that I can make connections that much more quickly, but I'm not moving gear enough these days to have made this a priority. My rig takes about 10-15 minutes to set up in ideal circumstances (places with no space or power constraints). That's two keyboards, two racks, a separate mixer, four footpedals, a PC-1600 MIDI fader box, and two speakers. It's much harder to *move* it than set it up :-/ Doug --- Doug Wyatt Sonosphere - electro-organic music, music software doug@sonosphere.com http://www.sonosphere.com/