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#3
Heres mine for ya. Pretty straight forward.
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Eventually I will have an iem transmitter under the BBE. Soon. :)
 
#6
I've got a rack that's a little more involved than simply a bass setup with a GCX. But I do have my amp, and some pedals in a Rocktron Patchmate (similar to GCX). I don't use a ground control though, all my midi changes are handled in Ableton as our drummers plays to a click, so our whole set is synced. Our singer's guitar rig is in my rack as well (mesa power amp with a Line 6 POD HD and some pedals that also live in/out of my Patchmate) and then we have two vocal effects units. All of those are midi switchable.

We also send midi across the stage to our other guitarist who has a GCX with several midi controlled pedals in his rack with his Diezel (also midi controlled). We also send midi in and out of his Musicomlab (which is on his pedalboard) so he can control his GCX from there, but we can also control some of his pedalboard switches from Ableton via midi.

Overall we send midi EVERYWHERE. It's midi madness, y'all.

Sorry this picture is awful. It's an old one of our rack. We are in the midst of a revamp to put a new pedal shelf on board for me. Currently this just houses my VT Bass and an M5 (which is switched via midi.... of course). Also in the rack is our singer's wireless receiver for his guitar and his in ears transmitter, as well as our audio interface which connects via USB to a macbook that our drummer uses during the set. The patchbay that you see a snake coming out of now has 1/4" audio out to guitarist (for a couple samples we send to his amp), 1/4" to our drummer for his headphones, speakon outputs for my bass cab and the singer's guitar cab, XLR from my bass DI, midi to the other guitarist, and then there are 4 XLR which is a pair of send and returns to and from the vocal effects units from a snake box that I keep at the front of the stage. And the last 1/4" is my bass input, which also comes through the same snake.

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#8
Yeah I have a quadrathru which we hit first, and then go out from there. The guitarist who does not live in my rack also has a splitter in his rack to go to his rack stuff and then out to his pedalboard. Before the quadrathru everything was daisy chained to eachother, but obviously in that situation one piece of gear failing means everything goes down. Plus the Line 6 M5 doesn't have a midi thru jack, so it always had to be last.
 
#9
What are the main reasons for having a bass rack with all that stuff in it?? All I have is my GK 1001 RB in a 2 space rack and I love it. I can't imagine what all that other stuff is for and what it does. Enlightenment please? What are midi functions for? I don't think I've ever worked with midi before and don't have any idea how/what you use it for. What are all the units in the rack above for and what are they used for?
 
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gregmon79 said:
What are the main reasons for having a bass rack with all that stuff in it?? All I have is my GK 1001 RB in a 2 space rack and I love it. I can't imagine what all that other stuff is for and what it does. Enlightenment please? What are midi functions for? I don't think I've ever worked with midi before and don't have any idea how/what you use it for. What are all the units in the rack above for and what are they used for?
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Read his post. ;)
 
#14
johnbegone said:
Yeah I have a quadrathru which we hit first, and then go out from there. The guitarist who does not live in my rack also has a splitter in his rack to go to his rack stuff and then out to his pedalboard. Before the quadrathru everything was daisy chained to eachother, but obviously in that situation one piece of gear failing means everything goes down. Plus the Line 6 M5 doesn't have a midi thru jack, so it always had to be last.
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Is there a Master clock? I imagine it's the Ableton, no?
 
#15
Yeah we don't have to do any time sync stuff because everything is controlled through Ableton through a single USB interface outputting on a single midi out.

Midi is awesome with the Line 6 and Strymon stuff. We are finding all kinds of creative uses to completely control our sound/dynamics. For example - via midi on the Strymon Mobius - you can change EVERYTHING via midi. We just discovered the ability to reset a phaser in time. So if you want a phaser to peak at the exact right time every time - you can do that with midi. It's beautiful.

We work really hard to match our recordings 100% without having to use prerecorded tracks. We do pretty well. People think we are using tracks sometimes just because a lot of our amp channel / pedal changes happen automatically via midi.
 

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