Single Pickup and Preparations
July 1, 2008 in Blogs
As mentioned, I picked up a very nice rather powerful power amp yesterday from Grey Vanaman of Audio-Clear. It is now on the floor in my living room with some of my other equipment, somewhat surreptitious for its small size. Between now and Thursday night I will need to add to it a rather large mixing board, a pair of mikes with stands, two compact but noticeable speaker columns, and a pair of self-powered monitors, all of which will be considerably less surreptitious. I worry a bit, because that is nothing compared to the planned addition of another mixer with built-in amp and the two large cabinets, one with four tens and the other with four twelves, each large enough that I anticipate using them as tables for the two mixers, which will be added to power my instruments. My basement might have been large enough at one time to host a band, but it has been sectioned in various ways which make that impossible unless I oust someone from a bedroom. On the other hand, we will never fit all of this plus two drummers (or likely even one drummer) in the living room, so I probably ought to be more concerned with how I am going to get all of this plus my son’s equipment and my son into the back of a compact car. I’m good, but given that he will be using a good sized amp (my old Ampeg B-15) plus another column which matches the one with the four twelves, I think neither a Neon nor a Saturn will do. I will probably wind up moving gear in the pickup truck, which means dealing with weather by means of a tarp, a handful of come-alongs, and a box of bungies. Rain will not be my friend.
It is ironic that I have had vans for many years, but none of them when I also had a band. I always wanted a van particularly so that I could transport equipment for the band, but the two have never managed to fall together. Ah, well–better to haul equipment in a pickup than to haul trash in a van, I suppose.
–M. J. Young