Baycon

[mdlbear]

Well, here we are at Baycon. The con's going pretty well; my concert was mostly OK except for forgetting to capo up on "Demon Lover" -- luckily cflute was paying attention. But we sounded good together; we'll have to work up a few more. And hvideo was recording... Darned good thing; I brought the rig, but didn't have time to set it up. Practicing with Callie was more important, and paid off.

The recording rig in its current incarnation is just too damned bulky to work well for that kind of thing. It's conceivable that I could repackage it, but there just wasn't enough room in a small suitcase for it to be useable without unpacking, which was the original idea.

Left the filking about 2am; totally missed the parties as a result (grump).

Setlist will get posted when I get back home to a computer that my tools work properly on.

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[mdlbear]

Just for reference, here's the list in shortnames:

stuff dream guilty wannabe cicero barratry deso-no vampire lad rosie heaven can-t demon silk world ship

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

If it helps any, I love this case for portability - it's about as small as you can get and still have a PCI slot. I had one laptop bag for it and all the cables, one for the flatscreen, and one for microphones. I've since managed to get my hands on a real honest-to-god hard-case gear box, and have that for the new bigger recording system, and the laptop bag for everything else.

[mdlbear]

That's pretty close to the one I have. Problem is, by the time you stick it in a suitcase with an external preamp/headphone amp, a laptop, two mics, a desktop mic stand, headphones, assorted cables, an ethernet switch, four wall-warts and a power strip, it's neither particularly compact nor particularly light, and you still have to haul everything out of the suitcase to set it up.

My goal is to have something I can roll into a room, plug in, deploy the microphones, and record with. And then roll back home, plug in the xterm and preamps that are semi-permanently set up, and record.

[eleccham.livejournal.com]

There's that. I'm working on a better method for what I've got - too much of it is still in its original box (like the mixer!)

I've seen setups similar to mine on a rolling cart, but that wouldn't fit in the trunk of my old Corolla, though it'd be fine for a minivan. I'll ponder that, though.

[mdlbear]

They make rolling rack boxes, and they're tempting, but I suspect a rack would be both too heavy and too bulky for what I want.