Chris Ault is guitarist and vocalist for the Top Shelf Band.
Top Shelf Band is an Ottawa-based 3-piece band of local veteran musicians having a total of 120 years of combined musical recording and performing experience. Top Shelf Band is heavily influenced by the music of our audience’s youth - the high energy popular radio tunes from the late 70’s through the 90’s, focusing on playing music which incites energy and urges the audience to dance.
The band has Chris Ault (guitar, vocals, keys), Tim Gadde (drums, vocals) and Ron Proulx (bass, vocals) coming together as a tight-knit trio driven to have fun on stage and with the audience – culminating in an upbeat, refined presentation of music, fun, and camaraderie.
Top Shelf delivers high energy pop tunes from the 80s and some Top 40 – blending powerful vocal harmonies with and 80s keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, delivering non-stop dance music full of energy and laughter.
You’ll laugh, you’ll dance, and you’ll leave saying “WOW! What a party!”
Chris is using Gig Performer. Here was a guest in the Backstage with Gig Performer show:
In this episode, from his “genesis” moment to building a reliable setup with a mini-PC and custom-modified Boss pedal, Chris will walk us through his process, why he chose Gig Performer, and how he controls everything with a compact footprint.
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Chris Ault shared some photos on Facebook.
Sharing progress on a project I’ve been tinkering on:
- Gig Performer running on a postcard-sized embedded touchscreen Windows “box”
- FCB1010 modded by removing the Expression pedals - don’t need 'em
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USD 349 
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It runs at about 30% CPU occupancy for my most complex rig!
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Switches to the left of the FCB control OnSong running on his iPad.
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