I usually pan moderately left/right to match as well. With the accordion sound comes out of two different spots and the left/bass side moves so mic placement is critical. The mic on the left side is for the bass side of the accordion. The mic on the right side is for the treble side of the accordion, and is run through the M13 unit. Although I'm also used to it as well lol. It's not that bad in terms of multi-tasking.
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I have this little 2u rack on the side that houses a half-rack power supply and an FMC RNC 1773 Really Nice Compressor (set as a limiter) for my headphone monitoring.Īt most I end up playing the accordion, one keyboard plus pedals, and kick pedal at once, and sometimes switching FX on and off with the other foot.
Not as cool as Sam's rig above but it works for what I need. I get most sounds from the PC4, with some strings and most pads and synth/electric basses from the MX61. Not to mention the entry and exit values for every single multi. Yamaha and Kurzweil have very different ways of selecting sounds over MIDI which was very annoying to have to figure out without much in way of instructions anywhere. The PC4 sends program changes on channels 1 and 2 to the MX that either select a silent program on the MX (for when it's being used as a controller) or the appropriate sound on channel 1 to be played from the MX, and either a silent program (for when I don't want to trigger the MX from the PC4) or the appropriate sound on channel 2 to be played from the PC4 keybed. I stay in Multi mode (well, I use QA mode) and after a surprisingly long amount of programming time, I can get them to talk to each other well. The MX61 and PC4 are midi'd together at all times. No midi, using each board standalone.įor band gigs without accordion or the need for a kick drum this is the setup 3/4 of the year (as above, swap the PC4->Motif XF8 and MX61->Korg Krome for summer and a Z-stand). Kurzweil PC4, Yamaha MX61, Yamaha DTX 2.0 module + silent kick pedal, Line6 M13 multi-effects unit (for the accordion), Yamaha MG10XU mixer to hook it all together. The remaining 1/4 of the year (summer) is the same gear with the PC4 swapped out for a Motif XF8 and the MX61 swapped out for a Krome 61 with a Z-stand. Here's the solo live rig these days for 3/4 of the year. I also got to get a little cozier than I had been with the modeled tape delay on the CP88 for a few of the songs.Īnd hey, even by my massive rig standards, this one still had the advantage of being all digital! That's a trick I learned from Benmont Tench he used to do it with the synth parts on Running Down a Dream so he could keep both hands on the piano. The new music we were performing live was very much created "in the box" with a lot of electronic sounds and Production rather than a band, and the Nord was really handy to have for some drone parts that came in and out of the recorded arrangements - I used a latching footswitch and a volume pedal to bring some open fifths in and out during some songs without having to take my hands away from more prominent parts.
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which I ran through (I can't believe I did this) my Leslie 147 (it actually fit in the back of my car, and there was a crew to help lift it onto the stage!).Ī pretty hefty rig, but the gig had a lot of simple parts utilizing varied textures song to song, and it made my life a lot easier to have a breadth of sounds I could grab at any time, rather than complicated patch changes dominating each tune.
Photos of the rig attached - Yamaha CP88 for acoustic and electric piano (plus a synth pad for one Genesis cover that pushed the limits of even this rig), Novation Ultranova for lead synth (including the talkbox stuff), Nord Electro 4D for samples (clavinet, Mellotron strings/flutes, and saw pads), Roli Seaboard Block Bluetoothed to an iPad (for some expressive "flute" leads on two of the tunes), and my Crumar Mojo XT for Hammond. It was a sold-out show in a roughly 350-person theater, big sound/light/stage crew, the works, so I decided to do the thing I said I wasn't going to keep doing so much and went A Little Extra. Was a hired gun for a big record release show this past weekend, the solo debut from the singer of a very well-established local band (with whom I've also done a couple of stints on keyboards).