Part Two:
Now that I had the appropriate piping, it was just an easy matter of cutting and trimming off two small sections that would allow two sections of pipe clamps to fit, plus two rubber feet per pipe. What I found was that the existing rubber feet for the previous pipe sections were just slightly large for the new pipes. No problems....that's what gaff's for!
Little strip of gaff tape, then slip the feet on....no problems....perfect fit!
Now, the few new purchases for the whole rig. To slash a bit off the set-up time, I replaces the mesh pads that I'd strike with my feet (handy for keeping cowbell patterns whilst playing timbales) with new Roland KD-7 trigger pads. These can also bekept attached to the pedals themselves, and both pedals and triggers can go into a pedal bag, together with the bits of actual percussion that you see in the percussion tray. Genius!. The tambourine with the foot pedal's now been retired, replaced by a Boss FS-5U foot switch (this in turn triggers the hi-hat functions on the Handsonic....it shares a split cable with one of the KD-7 triggers), so if needs be, the Handsonic itself becomes a complete "drumkit". To the left, I now have plenty of space for the two damper and two volume pedals for the Korg keyboards (one volume pedal is a Boss FV-50L, but the other one's an Ibanez VL-10, which is an interesting one...it's both a volume as well as a balancer pedal....one which if used in a keyboard or guitar-only rig, allows you to switch between amps....a very handy thing to have....these are really hard to find in decent condition nowadays). Coming off the rack I have a Gibraltar percussion tray full of shakers and other goodies, plus a convenient place to hold a pair of sticks for playing the SPD-S. And apart from the power supplies for the mixer and all these units, and maybe a lead for an amp (used as my own monitor) and the two 30 foot leads I give the sound guy.....all the leads for patching in the units plus their pedals are already set and velcroed to the rack, which can then fold up and be placed in my car. Looks a lot, but the whole thing sets up in relatively little time.
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