Originally Posted By: silvertones
Pat,
What are you using for tracks ,if any, and what is your sound system. Just a curiosity from a fellow live player.


Once I committed to the gig, I had a limited amount of time to get ready, and my work imposed mandatory overtime at the same time, which limited my ability to make all the trax I need.

So for songs that don't have guitar or other solos (that I would want to play with the guitar synth) I bought karaoke trax. (Shortest distance between 2 points)

For any song that I needed to omit both vocals and guitar (most of them), I made my own tracks with RB using the technique I've detailed here many times.

Setup is as follows:
1) RB on a laptop, with all tracks mixed down to an audio track of each song, an audio track of the chords (to drive my guitar harmonizer) and a midi track of the chords (to drive all the MIDI gear in my rack... songs will be placed in a jukebox directory and served up using a USB pedal to stop start and advance the jukebox

2) Rack gear includes 2 voiceworks units, a Behringer V-amp guitar processor, a roland XV-3080 MIDI module and a BBE Sonic Maximizer...Midi embedded in the SEQ file changes patches and effects in the rack gear for each song.

3) RB Laptop goes out to a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 so I can send one set of outputs to the mixer, and another set of outputs to any external pedals or amps as needed

4) the focusrite sends the backing tracks to a Behringer xenyx 1622 mixer, and the rack stuff also goes to the mixer where everything is merged together, and a light sheen of reverb ties it all together. Also, any extra singers would plug their mics into this mixer

5) mixer goes out to 2 powered speakers on stands (ALTO 15", I forget the model) In case of disaster I have 2 backup powered speakers of equal size that I got on a MF stupid deal of the day for a killer price.

6) all gear is elevated to where I can make adjustments while standing in front of a mic. Elevation is accomplished with adjustable keyboard stands... so all stands are matching black foldable aluminum that can be packed up compactly.

7) everything fits nicely in my new little Scion xB which I bought specifically for hauling gear, and eventually for putting a car wrap on it advertising my music service.

that's my whole system. It took years to get all the pieces assembled due to the cost of acquiring each piece of the puzzle.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0