- Jan 23, 2004
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- Endorsing Artist: Salo Guitars
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Show your Rack... mount!!!
- Thread starter Tunaman
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- Jan 23, 2004
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fenderbassabuse said:
Thanks! It was really simple, cheap and fun to do...and it really looks cool for the total price.
I bought standard 19" rack grill panel, two 12V case fans with blue lights, two fan grills with tribal design and a power switch. As for power source there's old 12V power supply. I soldered switch, fans and power supply together. Then I made some insulation with dielectric tape
Our guitarist works at metal shop so we made few holes to the grill for fans, screws and power switch. I painted the grill black with few layers of spray paint and few layers of matte varnish spray.
No static noise at all and fans are real quiet because they are used for computers. You can ask fans like these from any computer store.
This particular setup is for my home only; anywhere but, it'd be a disaster waiting to happen. Though, it is much, much more stable than it appears. When out and about, the pedals are secured on top of the rack, instead of sitting precariously out in front; but at home it's much more functiontional (the whole thing is up off the ground, so I don't have to bend over to twiddle with knobs). And, y'know, I plug a bass in, instead of a tuner, as well as using my 30" cable instead of my 6 footer to go into the SD-9.
What I want is like, a 6 space rack, so I can rack the pedals in above the preamp and still leave a space between the power and the pre.
And the shelves are actually the front and rear covers. It's ghetto, all in all, but I'm cheap.
I only have pix of my old FX rack, it has changed greatly, but you get the idea. 
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The sticker is from a game I helped alpha test and the developers added my screen name among many others to the credits to say thank you.
I was playing with my EQ a bit and decided to turn it off entirely and just use the low and High Pass knobs to the right of the EQ. It eliminated my hiss that I have been combatting the past year by killing most of the high pass and it hardly impacts my tone.
The sticker is from a game I helped alpha test and the developers added my screen name among many others to the credits to say thank you.
I was playing with my EQ a bit and decided to turn it off entirely and just use the low and High Pass knobs to the right of the EQ. It eliminated my hiss that I have been combatting the past year by killing most of the high pass and it hardly impacts my tone.
- Jan 23, 2004
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claybone said:here's mine.
Hey Claybone! I just picked up an RT904, should get it monday. I see that its still in your rig, what do you think of it? They seem somewhat uncommon, I am very excited for mine. I will be using mine trictly as a distortion unit, think I'll stick with the pre in my amp and put the blue tube in the effects send.
Actually that Behringer is a very valuable creation. SNR2000 noise reduction, the best working and usable noise reduction unit I've ever used. Many things are different now, and I'm this close to selling the Eventide.
Just an FYI on whats in the picture:
Top to bottom
Juice Goose (power distro)
Lexicon Vortex (spatial device)
Lexicon MPX100 (multi-fx)
Sansamp PSA-1 (preamp distort-o-rama)
Rolls 6X4 channel mixer
Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro (the looper)
Axon AX100 (midi converter)
Behringer SNR2000 (noise reduction)
Eventide 3000s upgraded using D/SE conversion kit.
I've never flinched putting that silver box in with all the other big boyz. It does what it needs to, and does it well, and can't beat the price for the quiet.
Dirk
Just an FYI on whats in the picture:
Top to bottom
Juice Goose (power distro)
Lexicon Vortex (spatial device)
Lexicon MPX100 (multi-fx)
Sansamp PSA-1 (preamp distort-o-rama)
Rolls 6X4 channel mixer
Oberheim Echoplex Digital Pro (the looper)
Axon AX100 (midi converter)
Behringer SNR2000 (noise reduction)
Eventide 3000s upgraded using D/SE conversion kit.
I've never flinched putting that silver box in with all the other big boyz. It does what it needs to, and does it well, and can't beat the price for the quiet.
Dirk
Hi droog! I use the RT904 just to warm up the signal.. never really used the drive past 5. Sounds too buzzy for me.. But I bet that it would really makes a good distortion effect.. unlike the Boss ODB3 that I have.
j-raj said:
I would have gone through earlier, but I was posting as I was preparing for work.
Left rack:
Soho QTR-1 preamp (actually a guitar pre from the 80s, but all tube, VERY warm clean tone, excellent crunch tone, and two more channels of insane and more-insane gain)
Mesa/Boogie Stereo Strategy 500
Right rack:
Furman RR-15
XWire
Korg DTR-1000
Ensoniq DP/4+
The amp rack normally has a Rane 31-band EQ in that empty space, but I had to loan it to a friend for his PA for a gig.
