aeroic's new rack build..

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Finished Eric's new rack this week, gonna deliver it tomorrow. It's now the 2nd coolest rack on Rig-Talk.. :D :lol: :LOL:

Anyway, signal starts from a Shure wireless mounted under his Trailer Trash pedalboard. From the wireless it goes into an Axess BS2 buffer. The Split out of the BS2 is sent to his Peterson tuner. And the the Main out of the BS2 sends the signal down the line, going through the rest of the pedals on the top of the board.

From the pedal board, the signal hits the new interface I built on the rear of the rack. From there it hits the input of the top Lexicon MPX-G2. The Egnater M4 is 'inserted' into that Lexicon. The top Lexicon is primarily for gate, and other things that require the signal to be 'series'. Out of the top Lexicon it hits the Line 6 Filter Pro, which also must be in series. From the Line 6 it goes into Mix 2 of the CAE Mini Mixer. The signal is then split twice, one hitting the input of the 2nd Lexicon for delays & verbs, the 2nd split hitting the inputs of the Line 6 Mod Pro for chorus, flanges, and whatever else it can do. The outputs of the 2nd Lexicon and Mod Pro then go into Mix 1 of the CAE Mixer which are normalled into Mix 2. This allows Eric to have a Mix 1 be strictly the WET, and Mix 2 be strictly DRY. Then out of the CAE Mixer it currently hits his VHT 2/90/2, which will be swapped out for a his new Randall RT2/50 sometime tomorrow after arriving at his place.

Other cool stuff:
1) Eric was noticing some wireless dropouts from time to time so I relocated the antennae to the rear of the pedalboard.
2) Removed a Line 6 modeler pedal and velcro'd down a new custom fuzz pedal, and a EH Small Stone phaser, which are both on the far upper right.
3) I also gave Eric two more IA switches on his GCP by installing two switches, one in each upper corner. Each is internally wired to the EXP jacks. Now he doesn't have to eat up two of the normal GCP IA switches for Mute & Tap.
4) All audio path is Gold G&H connectors, and all other cables are regular silver.
5) All wire is Gepco, including their new double-braid guitar cable which I'm actually pissed off about because it sounds incredible and I didn't wire my rack with it. :(

See you tomorrow Eric, have the :cheers: ready, and your checkbook! :D

Here's some pics, click for larger view:






 
What most of you might not realize, is that's a shock rack, with stowable doors. It's a interesting type of shock rack, in that it weighs a lot less than normal shock racks, and it also is a welded frame, which is super strong. Gotta love a rack you don't have to find a place to put the front / back doors of the rack.

Klark is bringing it down to me tomorrow afternoon. Can't wait to get this f-cker all setup w/ patches and such to put it through its paces.

Thanks a lot Klark for doing a great job wiring that up!

Thanks,
Eric
 
aeroic":1gxmz25m said:
What most of you might not realize, is that's a shock rack, with stowable doors. It's a interesting type of shock rack, in that it weighs a lot less than normal shock racks, and it also is a welded frame, which is super strong. Gotta love a rack you don't have to find a place to put the front / back doors of the rack.

Klark is bringing it down to me tomorrow afternoon. Can't wait to get this f-cker all setup w/ patches and such to put it through its paces.

Thanks a lot Klark for doing a great job wiring that up!

Thanks,
Eric
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I'm looking into building a rack for gigs, can you give me the company and model?
 
Szar":3sk8v4sr said:
aeroic":3sk8v4sr said:
What most of you might not realize, is that's a shock rack, with stowable doors. It's a interesting type of shock rack, in that it weighs a lot less than normal shock racks, and it also is a welded frame, which is super strong. Gotta love a rack you don't have to find a place to put the front / back doors of the rack.

Klark is bringing it down to me tomorrow afternoon. Can't wait to get this f-cker all setup w/ patches and such to put it through its paces.

Thanks a lot Klark for doing a great job wiring that up!

Thanks,
Eric
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I'm looking into building a rack for gigs, can you give me the company and model?
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Indy Case out of Indianapolis (indycase.com). It's a X-Frame shock rack, 10 spaces. Just call and ask for Jake and tell him Eric Williams sent him your way. They build them custom based on your specs (depth, spaces, wheels, w/ stowable doors or w/o, etc etc.)

I've had nearly all my cases built by them, and there's a reason I don't go anywhere else. I really like the X-Frame cases, since they use a welded frame, which is MUCH stronger.

Eric
 
I want to know how the hell I let a M4 out of the shop without a serial number! Looks great Klark and enjoy it Eric.
 
Jeff Hilligan":qxd2rao9 said:
I want to know how the hell I let a M4 out of the shop without a serial number! Looks great Klark and enjoy it Eric.
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Probably the same way my Mod 50 did :lol: :LOL:
 
jmgman69":15n7gk1r said:
Jeff Hilligan":15n7gk1r said:
I want to know how the hell I let a M4 out of the shop without a serial number! Looks great Klark and enjoy it Eric.
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Probably the same way my Mod 50 did :lol: :LOL:
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Good thing it is just serial numbers and not components, modules, knobs, cables.......chassis.... :lol: :LOL: :thumbsup:
 
aeroic":tcnltph5 said:
What most of you might not realize, is that's a shock rack, with stowable doors. It's a interesting type of shock rack, in that it weighs a lot less than normal shock racks, and it also is a welded frame, which is super strong. Gotta love a rack you don't have to find a place to put the front / back doors of the rack.

Klark is bringing it down to me tomorrow afternoon. Can't wait to get this f-cker all setup w/ patches and such to put it through its paces.

Thanks a lot Klark for doing a great job wiring that up!

Thanks,
Eric
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Cool, could you show us a picture of how it stows? also, what makes it so light?

The red led's are awesome too :rock:
 
broknstuff":3drrnfbe said:
aeroic":3drrnfbe said:
What most of you might not realize, is that's a shock rack, with stowable doors. It's a interesting type of shock rack, in that it weighs a lot less than normal shock racks, and it also is a welded frame, which is super strong. Gotta love a rack you don't have to find a place to put the front / back doors of the rack.

Klark is bringing it down to me tomorrow afternoon. Can't wait to get this f-cker all setup w/ patches and such to put it through its paces.

Thanks a lot Klark for doing a great job wiring that up!

Thanks,
Eric
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Cool, could you show us a picture of how it stows? also, what makes it so light?

The red led's are awesome too :rock:
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I can take more pictures now that I have the rack in my possession. What makes it lighter than a normal shock rack, is that it doesn't have a "box in a box" w/ foam all around it. It's a metal rack rail frame that's suspended in the rack and uses rubber type grommets to allow movement in the rack and absorb shock. Definitely has a good range of motion inside of the rack to absorb more shock than a typical shock rack in my honest opinion. Plus w/ the welded aluminum frame, that saves a little bit of weight too. Bit weight difference is the from / back doors, as they are only wood that latch in the front with a built in latching mechanism to the welded frame. No excess metal, twist style latches, etc. on the doors removes weight also.

Definitely the lightest shock rack for a 10spacer I've picked up! :)
 
Got most of the issues worked out. Only issue I've having at the moment is w/ the Lexicon MPXG2 that's in a parallel effects loop. If there's a effect on, there's no problem at all. If I turn the effects off and still have the insert on, there's a phasing issue. If I turn off the insert, life is grand.

So, I don't know if the MPXG2 in the parallel effects loop is going to be my long term processor there. Going to try a Lexicon MPX-1 first..and possibly a TC G Major 2. But damn...the parallel effects loop for delays, verbs, and choruses is just mind blowing!

Eric
 
aeroic":iyemo8qj said:
Got most of the issues worked out. Only issue I've having at the moment is w/ the Lexicon MPXG2 that's in a parallel effects loop. If there's a effect on, there's no problem at all. If I turn the effects off and still have the insert on, there's a phasing issue. If I turn off the insert, life is grand.
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Hey Eric, the insert on the G2 can be turned on and off via MIDI CC for a short-term solution, but then I don't know if the GCX can send more than one msg to a single device since you will likely want to also be sending PC msgs too.
 
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