- Power board.
- little behringer mixer.
- Edirol UA-20 Audio interface.
- power supply for the mixer.
- This receives power from a handy wall outlet!
- This USB goes to the compy!
- This goes to my SPD-20 percussion controller. (DC power, MIDI, L/R TS jacks).
- In here, two long guitar leads to connect to the desk, a mic lead and an EV 57-like mic.
- could plug a mic in here, the compy is listening to the single aux send on this board, so I could record or add effects to it or something.
- This goes to the desk which in turn goes to the house speakers AND THEN the audience can hear it.
Gig briefcase 1
I fitted out an old dell laptop briefcase to hold some of the gear I need to run my laptop at gigs. This way it takes like 5 seconds to organise my stuff instead of 15 minutes. I've strapped in a little mixer, my reasonably boring edirol interface and a power board for everything. All the between these things are velcroed in so I have to plug in as few things as possible.
I'm slightly worried everything will get too hot and die inside the cosy padding.
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spaceamoeba (52 months ago | reply)
Well now! Thank you for the inspiration! I can't tell you the trouble I have trying to keep my home 'studio' tidy. This is a good idea. I never thought of using a laptop bag for audio cables. Considering how many compartments your average laptop bag has, this could be a real life-saver. I'm going to try it out!
chromedecay (52 months ago | reply)
Very smart!
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d2s (51 months ago | reply)
Looks like quite nice idea but wouldn't it be even better to have some solid metal case and build little air flow channels so things would get ventilated? Mayby some small fan to increase effect? Good case would also protect your equipment from knocks and other kinds of problems. Anyways, this is good inspiration as itself.
cpmpercussion (51 months ago | reply)
It *would* be better to have a solid metal case. ...actually, it would be better to have a nice mackey mixer with build in audio interface rackmounted into a hard case. But it's a triple edged sword: Useful but expensive and worst of all, heavy!
For my purposes (and budget - zero dollars), the humble behringer mixer and old bag are fine. I can actually lift the mixer out and next to the bag without changing the cabling if it's getting too hot.
butters8754 [deleted] (45 months ago | reply)
good, clean design. i like it!
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