Live performance

[Guest]

This is a big enigma for me: how do you prepare a live performance How do you choose the equipment you'll need? You can not move the whole studio! I go crazy by thinking to take my stuff some place else and I don't have much. (You may have a look on the Midi-Center website www.midi-center.com ). And maybe you'll want to video the whole thing. That would be great by the way, for those who won't have the chance to be there (I won't be there ) I have a great interest in all this technical part. Maybe I'm the only one!?!

Please tell me how you'll do it!

Lania

[FredProgGH]

Good question. I haven't put together a rig for the shows next year yet, but I think the idea is to keep it pretty simple. I'll use a module for the organ parts, maybe through a MotionSound cabinet. It's like a Leslie, only smaller and rackmountable. I have to decide if I want to spend the money!! No heavy and unreliable analog stuff will go along. Those sounds will come from the Roland Vintage Synth module (which covers the mellotrons) and the Yamaha CS1x. Between the Hammond XM module, the two I just mentioned and a piano/controller keyboard, that should cover everything. I might take the Roland D-50, but I might not need it. And of course, I'll have the new addition: my Gretsch lap steel guitar. So: two keyboards (three, tops) and two modules and I'm good to go! I have absolutly no idea about mixing or amplification yet. We have 3/4 of a year to figure that out.

Fred

[FredProgGH]

Oh, and it will cost waaaaayy to much to do a proshoot of Nearfest, but I'm sure we'll get some amatuer videos of it. BUT-- we plan to film a local warmup show for a possible video or even DVD! It would be the same show except we'd have more control over the shoot.

Fred

[Guest]

Sounds great! A DVD would be just terrific.
Thanks for your post about how you'll prepare the live performance.

Lania