I’ve been lucky enough to assemble a decent home studio centred on Logic Pro and now have ambitions to play live locally as a one-man show running keys and guitars with backing tracks. The occasional gig may have an additional keys player and/or vocalist depending on the set list.
The goal is to act as a non-profit and, after expenses, donate profits from gigs to local charities.
I’m now taking elements of my home studio and putting them together into a live rig and my questions are (1) Did I miss anything? and (2) anything I need to be careful about when buying / upgrading kit (e.g. MIDI pedals to run NI Guitar Rig 7, Motu 6).
The budget is not unlimited and the aim is to raise money and have fun.
All comments and suggestions are much appreciated.
This should work. I personally prefer to have the audio interface alone on a separate PC USB port to be sure anything interferes with it. But maybe I’m a bit psychotic
Only piece of advice I would give is - try and keep the setup as simple as possible, whilst still meeting your requirements. The more you bring, and have to set up, the more that can detract from the fun of it all. (That’s my view but of course not everyone’s.)
I have recently reduced my setup down from two keyboard to one, and three footswitches (sustain, expression, and patch changer) to just an expression pedal. I’m also now using a Kindle Scribe instead of my 12.9" iPad Pro. All of that helps to avoid backache, and reduces the theft concerns I have in some of the venues I play in.
But above all, good luck and hope you can post a video of the final product!
Stephen
You’ve inserted a d.i. box between the output and the PA system. Maybe, if your equipment and the PA use the same protective earth (you use the same mains distribution point), it might not be needed. You should use line inputs of the PA however in that case. If you must use a d.i. box for separation of the protective earths and the PA has line inputs, you could also use a transformer: it’s a bit of a shame to attenuate the signal to 50mv and then in the PA crank it back up to 775mv.
That sounds like helpful advice Stephen, thanks. Two keyboards are to provide enough real estate for sounds but I’ll have another think about that. I haven’t come across the Kindle Scribe but will go look. The video will be forthcoming once it’s all set up. Paul
