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		<title>Different Skies 2010: T minus 21 days</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Having committed early and properly scheduled it, I&#8217;m set to play at Different Skies this year. As I mentioned previously, Mike will be taking a couple years off after this year, so it&#8217;s kind of a special event.</p> <p>We&#8217;ve had a number of folks who are mainstays have to pull out this year, leaving [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having committed early and properly scheduled it, I&#8217;m set to play at Different Skies this year. As I mentioned previously, Mike will be taking a couple years off after this year, so it&#8217;s kind of a special event.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve had a number of folks who are mainstays have to pull out this year, leaving some interesting holes to fill. In particular, neither Darrell nor Allen will be able to make it (and again Allen, bet wishes for your mom&#8217;s speedy recovery!), so there&#8217;s a need for someone to volunteer to do the broadcast from the stage this year. Mike had sId he was willing to do this, but it seemed pretty unfair to expect him to not only run everything but to also handle the broadcasting duties as well, so I&#8217;m volunteering. </p>
<p>I have been promising myself that I was really going to set up and broadcast a Stillstream concert from home, sometime&#8230;really&#8230;and this has given me the push I need to finally get that setup in place and do it. The stage broadcast isn&#8217;t quite as exposed as a solo broadcast, and it lets me get familiar with the process before trying to both do something unfamiliar and pay original music at the same time. Since we broadcast every evening, I&#8217;ll have a good bit of experience at doing at least the basics by the time that the concert actually happens. </p>
<p>My new setup handles all the problems I gave myself during the 2007 concert, which resulted in one piece not getting performed at all, as both Allen and I had simultaneous rig failures that completely silenced us. </p>
<p>This year&#8217;s setup retains the Firebox, source of most of my woes in 2007, but relegates it solely to being an extra instrument, controlled by the SD-1. There is no computer-controlled single point of failure this time; even if I lose the Firebox, all I lose is the spare MIDI mode the computer is acting as, not every sound-producing box I have. The Firebox seems much more stable with the new MacBook (as opposed to the early-2004 iBook, which was at the limit of its power when trying to run the Firebox and the various softsynths I was trying to use).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m hosting the plugins in Live, and not really using it for much else. I&#8217;ve toyed with using the iPad as an OSC controller, and that looks like it has a lot of potential, but isn&#8217;t quite 100% yet &#8211; it sometimes but not always handles MIDI learn from the plugins, and it has to Just Work before I want to trust it on stage, or at least I need to feel like I know what&#8217;s going on. It seems really funny sometimes that even though I have a day job programming computers, I am so very reluctant to use them onstage.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll probably post some pictures of the rig and talk a little about the setup as we go along toward DS week; there are still a few minor things to be worked out (whether or not I want to use a smaller, lighter mixer as my main mixer, since I&#8217;m only using two stereo ins right Noe, and whether I can deal with the added noise floor from the Vortex, sonic it&#8217;s my only processor, and I&#8217;ve been finding it quite useful for vocal processing).</p>
<p>So: more later; don&#8217;t forget to follow @differentskies on Twitter to catch micro-updates and notifications about posts to this blog.   </p>
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		<title>Different Skies: after</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joemcmahon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m currently at the airport, having just finished going through security and having to have my backpack scanned twice; too many confusing electronic bits, I guess. </p> <p>Load-out took from after the concert and final jams (ten-ish) until about 3AM. We got to experience the weather we might have had: 60 mph winds and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m currently at the airport, having just finished going through security and having to have my backpack scanned twice; too many confusing electronic bits, I guess. </p>
<p>Load-out took from after the concert and final jams (ten-ish) until about 3AM. We got to experience the weather we might have had: 60 mph winds and <em>cold</em>. Fortunately, that was the only cold night we had. We all got up as usual thsi morning; several folks had to go out early (Otso, DK, and Mike) because of bad weather predicted along their return route. Giles, Bill Fox, Darrel, Allen, and Doug went out around noon, and Jim Combs and I followed soon after. I was lucky that Jim was with me, as there was construction that required us to get off the freeway and drive through random parts of Phoenix. Jim had done it on Sunday when he went back down to pick up Otso and John 3. I dropped Jim off, dropped the rental car off (it was a Honda Civic hybrid &#8211; only half a tank of gas to get all the way to Arcosanti and back &#8211; cool!), and checked in.</p>
<p>Man, am I tired. Thank goodness Ivan was there to do sound for us, but that is some heavy equipment. Fortunately Rus ran into The Naked Guy during this process instead of me, as I would probably not have handled it with equal aplomb. (The Naked Guy showed up partway through the process; he apparently really needed to get to the visitor&#8217;s parking lot for some reason. Who knows.)</p>
<p>Sales at the merchandise table were brisk &#8211; the two folks who volunteered to help out took in more than $400. Wish I&#8217;d had my CD ready, but oh well. Maybe next time.</p>
<p>I need to analyze my setup and come up with something without a single point of failure if I want to play live. The FIREBOX was the bottleneck &#8211; if I&#8217;d just yanked the mixer cables and swapped them to the Firebox I could have stayed on line. &#8220;Everything and Nothing&#8221; would have just been different, rather than for all practical purposes nonexistent. I could have done fine with something I could switch to a straight audio-out feed from the headphone jack in an emergency &#8211; it worked well enough for the TV appearance, so it would certainly do for a backup. I didn&#8217;t use the Vortex much at all, so I could leave it home next time. If the audio was all routed direct to the mixer, and then to the direct box, I could turn up the direct laptop feed in case of an interface crash, or simply switch to whatever else I was using (real modules/etc.) if the computer bit it completely. Add one of the Edirol controllers for a backup if the keyboard goes but the computer&#8217;s up. and I should be ready for nearly anything. Though I will still keep the drum and whatever other acoustic instrument(s) I bring handy; they should work for anything short of the power going off. Miking, etc. is to be figured out later. And I&#8217;d really like to start playing trumpet again. Would be a nice addition to Brian&#8217;s sax.</p>
<p>Admittedly, it would have been nice if I had been able to figure this out earlier, but at least I&#8217;ve got a live setup sorted out for next time &#8230; and I definitely want there to be a next time.</p>
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