new band setup doesn't match my simplemind

kim · Post by **kim** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 9:59 am

so i've been meeting up with an old friend of mine, she has a band with her boyfriend and plays drums, thursdaynight we were discussing things for a new project because they want to go different ways from their band (homina) and i wanna go different ways for heavium, so it'll be something new.
the plan is to get some sort of industrial influences in there but the gear man..the gear.

she wants to use a kaospad, live drums, her boyfriend guitars and vocals, me guitars, vocals and drumcomputer. so how do i go about this ? setting up..we're having a first experiment this afternoon, i'm taking my stuff but it's gotta stay limited because we rehearse in the passthrough from bedroom to bathroom haha..very small, but cool place.
i thought taking that boss line selector and plug in a guitar and a drumcomputer then A B between those two, and send them both through a single pedalboard.
but..the pedalboard is on the ground for guitar, but i'm not putting the drumcomputer on the ground, on a table, so...shit. i don't wanna start buying all this shit for a seperate board for the drumcomputer. i still have some pedals that aren't on my board right now, but all my fuzzes are, and with the great destroyer being...well, destroyed, i'm missing a vital sound tool for 'my usual sound'..which totally sucks. the famulus and ultimate octave sound too tame.
i've got a spare chorus pedal, and a digitech xp200, the xp 200 is a bitch to connect with its hugeass adapter but i think i'm gonna use it again.

anyway, i was just wondering if anyone here has a double instrument setup and how do you go about it doing more with less, like a minimal setup and still create a racket but not a one trick pony sort of sound ?

i'm very excited about this, i've been craving to do something that basically gets the electronics from mcs and the garage rock/grunge from their band homina and mine heavium, i think it's a great match, but finding a setup is just a nightmare, especially with so little space, really crammed.

got a text now, they're picking me up soon, shiiit what do i take with me ?? xD

awfurby · Post by **awfurby** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:33 am

Calm down - it's only your first rehearsal together. You don't have to get it all squared away on the first go - what you are looking for is anything that looks like a promising avenue to explore. That goes the same for music and gear. You'll figure it out after a while and that's half the fun.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:55 am

you might find problems with clarity and functionality if you route your drumcomputer through your pedalboard. you could probably pick up a cheap rack multieffects unit and put the drum machine through that. something like a digitech studio quad or alesis midiverb. if your drumcomputer has midi you can use that to change multieffects at certain points in a sequence, so you can essentially set the parameters and leave it.

there's a digitech quad here sitting at much cheapness: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Digitech-Stud ... 2107536276

up to four effects simultaneously, only downside is they don't have distortion effects.

kim · Post by **kim** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:04 pm

yeah i noticed using the booster in front of the computer the amp was acting weird already. also serious lack of space, i've got a mic stuck in my face, cables everywhere, i have less than 1 square metre lol very cramped.
sarah plays drums so the drum computer is more for extras and weird sounds using the tom toms and bass on it for dirty sounds, kind of like black bug, absolute body control, front line assembly etc.

but gonna get together again monday too for a longer session. sounded pretty good already though. very dark which i like, i think we're on the same line pretty much.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:15 pm

do you like light asylum? she does a similar kind of thing. she sings and plays one of those midi drum pad things that I think is hooked up to a microkorg.