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>K. Douglas Baldwin wrote a message about doing a gig with a Roland D-50, >several amps, a PA, a marshall stack, a kitchen sink, and several large >pack animals to carry it all. Yes, and the worst part was getting the grand piano over the Alps. >I thought about the smallest possible amount of stuff to bring on a gig >and came up with this configuration: > >Guitar: Steinberger (the little square one with no headstock), >FX Unit: Line 6 Pod (it's really small and sounds good) >Looper: Akai Headrush or Boomerang (the Akai is small, Boomerang less so) >Drum Machine: New ZOOM unit (could replace FX unit above) >Keyboard: Tiny $100 casio with MIDI into more expensive sound module* > >*Dave Torn has done this live! > >The only problem would be the amplifier; even a Roland JC-77 is rather >heavy (not as heavy as the JC-120), but these amps are clean and loud >and would amplify the above nicely. > >You could actually do okay with a rig like this and it wouldn't weigh >a lot and would work fairly well I would think. Experiment! > >Todd Madson >Musician, Mountain Biker, Stunt Kite Flyer, BeOS/MacOS/Linux/WinNt user. >http://www.waste.org/~crash/index.html Tahnx, Todd. And good advice. I may take a Crate Acoustic Guitar amp out (the 120 watt model) for it's combination of very clean tone and relative light weight, but I am also addicted to big ol' tube amps. I like sounds that are real trad guitar as well as indefinable deep space (Mr. Torn is a good reference, actually) so I will probably haul something around for that sound as well. As for the drum machine and keyboard, it all got too constricting for me. I like to fly off into any key (or no key) at any moment, and I like to play the guitar, not push buttons. Button pushing for music making is fine, it's just not me. The setup at the moment seems to include: guitar (Hohner/Steinberger or Yamaha Pacifica) into Rat distortion, Digitech Whammy, Alesis Microverb and Mooger fooger Ring Modulator, then into Akai Headrush and out to Crate amp. I need to experiment with adding a tube preamp, probably between the Rat and Whammy, then an A/B switch to route the signal to either the Headrush/Crate or tube power amp for soloing over loops. This is a work in progress, and will always be so. For absolute minimalism, I could use the Hohnberger, Rat, Headrush and Crate (and maybe the Whammy) and be very happy. Douglas Baldwin, Alpha male Coyote, the Trickster dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us