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On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Antony Hequet <antony.hequet@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Any of you with knowledge and experience in this area, please help me > make > some wise battery and inverter choices, and maybe some advuce about how > to > make it into a nice rig on wheels... If you want to go with (the much more convenient) AA batteries you can check out Roland's amps on this page: http://www.roland.com/amp/battery/index.html. I use the CUBE Street for a Stick Guitar, dual inputs - one channel per fretboard side, and it works very well on the street. I can run at max volume knob position 60 percent for the clean side (with optional mic, but I use it for the bass side output from my instrument) and max 40 percent master volume knob position for the melody side. If going louder on the master knobs the CUBE Street distorts in an unpleasant way. I use none of the many available effects since they take off a bit of presence but I use the digital slap delay on both channels (since it adds space without degrading the original tone). This is not screaming loud but works well on the street even for quite big areas. I've noticed that I draw a bigger crowd when playing at a low volume and placing the amp carefully to take advantage of reflecting surfaces on the pavement, a wall behind me or a protruding store ceiling above. I dial in a little more treble than sounds good and throw a good-looking piece of cloth over the speakers to damp it into the sonic sweet-spot; this makes the general sound more pleasant than you can achieve with just the tone knobs of the amp. I have tried my Grand Stick (36") on the CUBE Street but the low bass doesn't come out so well. In fact nothing of the majestic Grand's sounds as good on the CUBE as the Stick Guitar (26,5") does. In case you use a higher tuning on your Stick it might work better though (I'm on MR here). The COSM amp sims all sound like crap to me, except for one that sounds really good: the Classic (a Marshall) and I use it at the very lowest gain setting for the melody side. This is an excellent allround sound for my busking. If you don't need that COSM thing you might find the KC-110 a better choice because it handles bass frequencies better, is more powerful and has three input channels (harmonica + 2 STick channels). I've been thinking about maybe adding a battery driven looper to my CUBE Street and will then use a mic to catch the sound into the looper and feed the looper's output into the CUBE's Aux input. Not sure this will happen though, since using a Stick rather than a guitar allows you do do a lot of stuff directly by playing that you would otherwise need looping to pull off. Anyway, my bottom line is that I am very happy with the CUBE Street. It fits into a shopping bag on wheels and leaves room for a big "buy this guy's CD" sign, a whawha pedal, cables, extra stings and a one day stock of CDs. At home I have a battery re-charger to fuel those six AA batteries during night-time. The thought of schlepping around that heavy old-school battery solution feels just alien; with the light-weight rig I have now I can even walk up/down stairs carrying everything and I think that's worth a lot. ... Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen