DanL

I gig all the time with my Stage 3, which is the most expensive board I've ever had. I gigged with the Stage and Kronos too. Now my big rig is a Viscount Legend, Fantom 08, Stage 3, and Nord A1, but that is used in theater situations where patrons can't get near me. But I've used the Stage and Kronos combo in many gig situations- outdoors, theaters, clubs. I have insurance on everything, even stuff I don't use live. I think the last time I had a problem was back when I had my original Electro. We had just gone on break and a guy was trying to step up onto the stage to give our guitar player a shot of Jager, he tripped and it went flying and landed all over the Electro. I got it all wiped up and never had any issues with it, but I wasn't real happy with the guy lol.

We had an outdoor show Thursday night that we cancelled. Some other friends were joking that we used to play in smoke filled bars, whats the difference. Somehow I think the particulates are worse...

I wasn't convinced it was Eb either but my guitar player picked it apart and the band all agreed he was right.

The last chord of the chorus is Eb major. So CM7 Bm7 FM7 G D7#9 Eb then back to Em.

In my living room it sounds good. There is definitely a warmer sound than the ELX's. I should bring them inside and A/B them. But so far, the 610 is what I expected. It gets pretty loud and has decent bottom end. Unfortunately I don't have a gig til the 20th, at a blues jam, but that'll be good test for it. It's the kind of gig I got the amp for- no PA, just stage volume in a room that holds maybe 100 people.

Ha! Yeah, it's pretty nice. I guess it was part of my rig revamp too! With the L shaped rig my usual drum throne would be just a bit too far from one of the stacks so I got the stool to be able to roll a little. Here's a link to it on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QKFGY3Y?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

I did a pretty major overhaul to my rig the last few months. I retired my Kronos and got a Fantom08 to replace it, saving me about 20lbs of weight. Then I added the weight back and got a Viscount Legend organ. My main gig rig now is the Legend and Nord Stage 3 compact on top. For my Floyd band it's the legend with a Nord Lead A1 on top of it, and then the Roland with the Stage on top of that, in an L shaped setup. I got one of the small 12" Leslies, which I use some of the time, and I have a MS KP610s arriving today.

Central Delaware for me. Pretty convenient to Philly, Baltimore, the DE shore.

After years of carting 2 PA speakers around, I wanted a smaller solution, and pulled the trigger on the 610 this week. It'll be here today. I mostly use IEM's, but there are gigs where they are not an option- either not everything is in the PA, or the venue doesn't have a wifi connection into the board to allow me to adjust my own mix. I've been using a pair of EV ELX112p. One of them is starting to flake out on me, so I figured this was a good time to downsize to a single amp. It'll sit right on top of my Leslie when I bring that out too. Looking forward to testing it out today when it arrives!

All of my Floyd tribute gigs are cancelled. A couple got rescheduled for late summer/early fall. My other main project, we've worked with the venues and have pretty much cancelled everything. We do have 2 outdoor shows in mid/late July that we are going to do. One is a concert in a park where it's easy to keep distance, and the other is a winery with the same setup. No indoor gigs. The one question mark is July 4 at a waterfront venue we play, the stage is outdoors but it gets crowded and you need to navigate shoulder to shoulder crowds to get to the rest rooms- we'll probably cancel that, if the venue doesn't for us. A couple other side bands I'm in have been approached about some other outdoor shows, I said I didn't want to do anything til August so we'll see how that plays out.

My gig last saturday got cancelled. sunday I did the blues jam but our attendance was about half of normal. Now the gov has shut down everything. Luckily this was a slow period for me gig wise, only 1 on the 27th, and 1 on 4/3 then nothing til May. Hopefully things get normal by then as i have 6 gigs in May.

Use a piece of rubber shelf liner.

Killer ! 2 of these Yammi "white cone" 15" w/ horn cabs sounded so damn good for the CS80,- and they were LOUD! And these cabs just only handled 100W each. A.C. Yes, that's what it was, the white cone 15... heavy as heck! Regarding the comment about not wanting to move the rack of CS800's, we had a similar rack. I think it had 3 and then a smaller Yamaha amp that drove our top end for the PA.

Lest we forget--he was also the owner of West Brook Studio, and head of it's keyboard department... And his studio was not open to the public.. lol I remember that! Great stuff...

I started playing gigs in the early 80's, but as a teen I had a Hammond L100 that I took the preamp out from and ran it into a Kustom guitar amp to keep up with the guys in our garage band. I had the Tapco/power amp/speaker setup a lot of you guys have already mentioned. I was using a CS800 for an amp and a Yamaha PA cabinet that was a 15 and a horn. My rig was the L100 and a Rhodes that I ran thru a Boss chorus stomp pedal. Things are so much easier now. That Hammond/Rhodes rig is self contained in my Electro, which I can plug direct into my powered monitors. 50lbs of gear vs 500!