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From: karlengel on 23 Jun 2008 08:38
A drummer friend has asked me about audio units he could use onstage
and start with a foot pedal.
I've drawn a blank. My old Akai DR4 has foot pedal input, but only to
punch in & out of record while playing (like the ADATS), not to
actually start playback.

His main gig is as a fairly well-known (locally) talkback radio host,
and I think he wants to play and possibly "interact with" a pre-
recorded phone call as a bit of theatre before a song.

I've just shot him an email to check, but it must be safe to assume he
doesn't have a trusted sound guy at the board who can fire it off -
maybe it's such a small gig that it's set & forget with no FOH.

He plays a Roland V kit of some kind - my first reaction was to get
him to sample the audio and trigger it off a pad, but apparently the
system is "closed" - you can download other drums but not make your
own samples as wavs.

I'm pretty sure there's no convenient way to remotely fire off the
recent handheld units like Zoom H2 is there?





From: Gareth Magennis on 23 Jun 2008 09:16

<karlengel(a)excite.com> wrote in message
news:47c1ec00-7e91-46bf-9041-8b335e74c86c(a)u6g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
>A drummer friend has asked me about audio units he could use onstage
> and start with a foot pedal.
> I've drawn a blank. My old Akai DR4 has foot pedal input, but only to
> punch in & out of record while playing (like the ADATS), not to
> actually start playback.
>
> His main gig is as a fairly well-known (locally) talkback radio host,
> and I think he wants to play and possibly "interact with" a pre-
> recorded phone call as a bit of theatre before a song.
>
> I've just shot him an email to check, but it must be safe to assume he
> doesn't have a trusted sound guy at the board who can fire it off -
> maybe it's such a small gig that it's set & forget with no FOH.
>
> He plays a Roland V kit of some kind - my first reaction was to get
> him to sample the audio and trigger it off a pad, but apparently the
> system is "closed" - you can download other drums but not make your
> own samples as wavs.
>
> I'm pretty sure there's no convenient way to remotely fire off the
> recent handheld units like Zoom H2 is there?
>
>
>
>
>

The V drums have MIDI out, so you should be able to connect any
sampler/sound module or even laptop to fire the Wavs with whatever drum
trigger you want.



Gareth.


From: Scott Dorsey on 23 Jun 2008 09:51
<karlengel(a)excite.com> wrote:
>A drummer friend has asked me about audio units he could use onstage
>and start with a foot pedal.
>I've drawn a blank. My old Akai DR4 has foot pedal input, but only to
>punch in & out of record while playing (like the ADATS), not to
>actually start playback.

Anything that has a single start button can easily be modified to add
a remote pedal input.

The problem with the little handheld units is that there isn't much room
inside the case to add a 1/4" jack and you may have to get stuck with a
3.5mm jack which will fail.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
From: Arny Krueger on 23 Jun 2008 10:15
<karlengel(a)excite.com> wrote in message
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> A drummer friend has asked me about audio units he could
> use onstage and start with a foot pedal.

In this day and age, you use a portable digital recorder that:

(1) Records long enough that you just start it when you can, and then record
for hours, if that is what it takes. Edit the results to suit.

(2) You have the blooming recorder up on stage, and control it with your
hand.


From: Mike Rivers on 23 Jun 2008 19:50
karlengel(a)excite.com wrote:
> A drummer friend has asked me about audio units he could use onstage
> and start with a foot pedal.

> His main gig is as a fairly well-known (locally) talkback radio host,
> and I think he wants to play and possibly "interact with" a pre-
> recorded phone call as a bit of theatre before a song.

There's a class of device called a Phrase Sampler that can record and
play fairly long sound samples. Roland and Boss make several of them.
They're designed to be used on stage and always include a foot pedal.

--
If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach
me here:
double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo -- I'm really Mike Rivers
(mriv...(a)d-and-d.com)
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