Bass Pedal (Taurus, Roland, MIDI, etc) Club?

[NOLA Bass]

Call me crazy, but I ordered the Moog Taurus 3!!!

If anyone is possibly interested in a Roland PK5a, Moog Minitaur or Roland XV-5080, shoot me a pm. I'll prob be posting in classifieds or on ebay soon, but figured I'd give the club members a heads up. Need to generate some funds!!! ; )

[Indiedog]

Congrats! You will love the "3"

And as folks say, it is more than just deep bass...it is a serious controller. Pat Metheny uses one to control tons of things (especially his Orchestrion),

[superdick2112]

Originally Posted by NOLA Bass

Call me crazy, but I ordered the Moog Taurus 3!!!

If anyone is possibly interested in a Roland PK5a, Moog Minitaur or Roland XV-5080, shoot me a pm. I'll prob be posting in classifieds or on ebay soon, but figured I'd give the club members a heads up. Need to generate some funds!!! ; )

Congrats! I know you'll love 'em!

Please feel free to PM me with any questions you may have once you get them.
I have a few Rush patches I've written ( they are posted on the Moog Taurus 3 microsite), and I'm pretty adept at programming the T-3.
Enjoy!

[NOLA Bass]

Originally Posted by superdick2112

Congrats! I know you'll love 'em!

Please feel free to PM me with any questions you may have once you get them.
I have a few Rush patches I've written ( they are posted on the Moog Taurus 3 microsite), and I'm pretty adept at programming the T-3.
Enjoy!

Cool, thanks!

[Flux Jetson]

Wow .. good for you! There's just no way in a lifetime I could ever afford to get one ... otherwise, yea!

[NOLA Bass]

Originally Posted by Flux Jetson

Wow .. good for you! There's just no way in a lifetime I could ever afford to get one ... otherwise, yea!

Trust me, the credit card is on fire! I usually like to have some money saved up in the paypal account first.

[superdick2112]

Originally Posted by NOLA Bass

Trust me, the credit card is on fire! I usually like to have some money saved up in the paypal account first.

I was lucky. As one of the early adopters, I paid a deposit a year before they were even designed or built, & ended up getting serial # 28, and I got a discount that essentially allowed me to get the factory road case for free!
Even with a year to save up for them, my credit card, while not quite on fire, was seriously smoking....

[Hellbastard]

I built mine, does it count?

[twocargar]

Absolutely!

I'll pass out some numbers soon.

Check out MIDIpedals.com too!

Originally Posted by Hellbastard

I built mine, does it count?

[Calaverasgrande]

I've got the Taurus III. It needs to be plugged into an amp to appreciate the gnawing thickness of the waveforms. Headphones and project studio speakers do not suffice. Though I do augment it with a Doepfer Dark Energy for a slightly more European sound.
I am curious, anyone ever use a PK5 to add another octave onto the Taurus III?

[NOLA Bass]

Originally Posted by Calaverasgrande

I've got the Taurus III. It needs to be plugged into an amp to appreciate the gnawing thickness of the waveforms. Headphones and project studio speakers do not suffice. Though I do augment it with a Doepfer Dark Energy for a slightly more European sound.
I am curious, anyone ever use a PK5 to add another octave onto the Taurus III?

I've got 2 rigs at the practice room. I'll probably try running it through a GK1001RBII into 2 GK NEO 112 II's.

[NOLA Bass]

Originally Posted by superdick2112

I was lucky. As one of the early adopters, I paid a deposit a year before they were even designed or built, & ended up getting serial # 28, and I got a discount that essentially allowed me to get the factory road case for free!
Even with a year to save up for them, my credit card, while not quite on fire, was seriously smoking....

I'm curious, how heavy is the taurus 3 loaded in that road case?

[superdick2112]

Originally Posted by Calaverasgrande

I've got the Taurus III. ....I am curious, anyone ever use a PK5 to add another octave onto the Taurus III?

I'm assuming you mean setting them side-by-side for a 2-octave pedalboard. I messed around with this before I sold my PK-5s, and;

1. It takes up way too much room, and I already bring too much stuff to gigs as it is.

2. There are overlapping "C" notes where the pedals butt together, requiring quite a wide step between notes.

3. It's not really needed, as you have the octave footswitch as well as the control wheel, which can be set to control the entire available octave range of the Taurus 3.

[superdick2112]

Originally Posted by NOLA Bass

I'm curious, how heavy is the taurus 3 loaded in that road case?

Farkin' heavy! As in 2-person to load it heavy.
Once it's on the ground, moving it is easy with the large built-in casters.
I play real Taurus because nothing else can replicate that monsterous analog sound to my satisfaction, but I'll say one thing for my old Roland PK-5/JP-8000 "DigiTaurus" setup - it was a hell of a lot easer to transport...

But the Moog is so worth the extra effort....

[Flux Jetson]

Originally Posted by Hellbastard

I built mine, does it count?

Holy Cats! This gets the Duct Tape Use of the Year Award in the subcategory of musical intrument.

You've made the redneck community shed a little tear of pride! Heheh ...

Goofing around aside ... nice job! That's what I call having your priorities in order. Function > Form.

[Flux Jetson]

Originally Posted by superdick2112

I'm assuming you mean setting them side-by-side for a 2-octave pedalboard......

2. There are overlapping "C" notes where the pedals butt together, requiring quite a wide step between notes......

For us DIY-ers out there, here's a bit of info re: this issue...

Hammond spinets used two types. There are 12 note bass pedals and 13 note bass pedals. The 12 note set went from C up to B. The 13 note set went from C to C. If one were to put a 12 note set on the left of a 13 note set, you'd essentially have a 25 note/two octave midi pedalboard that goes from C to shining C without the double-C issue. And it would be easier to haul around in two pieces as well. I've even drawn up sketches of a way to have them stow away sortof face-to face (with one turned around and flipped over) so that they sortof ~notch~ together in an electro-mechanical midified "69". Brings new meaning to the term ~pedalporn~.

That's funny, I'm funny.

I'll be at the Airport Hilton all week.

[Flux Jetson]

Originally Posted by superdick2112

Farkin' heavy! As in 2-person to load it heavy.
Once it's on the ground, moving it is easy with the large built-in casters.
I play real Taurus because nothing else can replicate that monsterous analog sound to my satisfaction, but I'll say one thing for my old Roland PK-5/JP-8000 "DigiTaurus" setup - it was a hell of a lot easer to transport...

But the Moog is so worth the extra effort....

And you obviously do it because you love it, right? That's the spirit!!! Yea, it's a betty to haul and such, but worth every grunt and groan, every drop of sweat, and the ribbing you get from other bandmates about your involved rig. Your heart is most certainly in the right spot.

Then there's the Taurus II, that had the bass pedals separated from the control unit which you could optioonally mount on a pole that was fitted to the bass pedals themselves. So you had the bass pedals on the floor and this thing that looked a LOT like a Slim Phatty on a stick that rose up out of the bass pedals about 2 or 3 feet.

I don't know exactly how I'm going to configure my rig once I get my mitts on the Cygnus kit, but knowing myself as well as I do I'm certain it'll be some kinda freakazoid shyte......

..... I've thought about using a small pole-mounted swiveling bicycle seat of sorts and having two sets of bass pedals facing me at obtuse angles from each other, with some sort of other controllers/controls near my bass guitar picking hand. The bike seat is there so I can get my weight off my feet a bit while playing the bass and use the bass pedals (and other conjured-up foot operated midi controllers) with both feet and perhaps some other type of controls near my right hand. And have my modular synth patched up to the works. Audiences DIG patchcord-synths.

OR or or or .... I've also thought of building a buck-standard bass pedal setup (13 note) and putting two expression pedals on top of the chassis to be used like the ~wheels~ on the T3 (or the sliders on the T1). Could even have three expression pedals up there, I'm sure there's room, and even put a few footswitches (momentary type and latching type) up on top of the chassis along with the 2 or 3 expression pedals. Make the upper foot controllers mount to a removable board so the whole rig can be carted around as a two piece system for convenience ...

Or not. I'm tired my brain is failing and I'm talking like a mo-ron.



HA!


Y'know, it's funny. I get these Skeptical Freds that ask me if I'm going to use my modular bass rig to gig with. There's obvious doubt in their words, as if the rig is too cumbersome to haul around from gig to gig. They don't seem to realize that they're questioning a person that played keyboards from 1977 to 2003 in live bands. I had Hammonds and Leslies and multi-synth setups. But yet these skeptics act like carting around anything more than a fleaweight bass amp head and a neodymium equipped 4x10 is "just to hard ... life is hard .. everything is so hard". Some bass players either have had it far too easy, or are just not very ambitious. I mean, look at how much stuff the drummers have to deal with.

So setting up a few pieces of rig is nuthin'. Especially if you take the time to configure things to facilitate setup and teardown. I mean, after having hauled around a 350 pound Hammond, a 150 pound Leslie, a 12u rack, a 24ch mixer, three synths, a tee pee keyboard stand, stuff that goes on the floor for foot-use, and everything it takes to rig-up all of that stuff, this new modular bass rig I'm working up is easy peasy.

If you truly love what you do, you learn to deal.

[Indiedog]

Originally Posted by Calaverasgrande

I've got the Taurus III. It needs to be plugged into an amp to appreciate the gnawing thickness of the waveforms. Headphones and project studio speakers do not suffice.

Boy howdy!
...even through my JBL Ion 15s the lower half of the pedals seems thin so I am lusting after a powered sub-woofer now.

[Calaverasgrande]

I like to run mine through my Mesa Bass 400 and 3xEVM 15" speakers.
Which is why I am in the market for a second bass amp!

As far as the two pedal manual thing, I am still adapting to playing with my feet, and it seems like I wish there was a few more keys on either end sometimes. I suppose with VERY adept use of the octave switch (and sustain) I could accomplish what I am hearing in my head.
I may also get around to picking up some organ pedals and midifying them to see if I can come up with the "extra" notes I need. There is always some guy selling parts of various old organs on CL.

[NOLA Bass]

Now, I wish I'd kept my Epifani PS115 to run them through. Seems like the 15" and Taurus is the way to go.