From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush
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Triggering offstage samples with MIDI pedals
From the course: Live Sound Engineering Techniques: On Tour with Rush
Triggering offstage samples with MIDI pedals
During the course of the show, you'll notice that my band members, while they're playing their guitar and their bass and singing, and there's points where Getty is playing keyboards, they're also doing something with their feet. They're playing samples with their feet. They have taken old Taurus pedals and had them modified to send out a midi note instead of an audio note. So the midi note comes over to these racks. These racks take all the midi in off of the stage, distribute it to where it needs to go, and it hits these laptop computers. The laptops then go down to a motu interface, which sends me a total of 10 channels of keyboards. So during the songs, while they're playing bass or guitar, they'll also be playing samples with their feet.
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Guitar world: Getting the Alex Lifeson guitar sound3m 56s
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Guitar world: Alex Lifeson's guitars1m 36s
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Triggering offstage samples with MIDI pedals40s
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Alex Lifeson's stage position42s
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Placing microphones on Neil Peart's drums and the rotating riser5m 29s
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Geddy Lee's stage position: Vocals, bass, and keyboards57s
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Bass world: Getting Geddy Lee's bass sound41s
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Using audience microphones to connect the band to their fans2m 6s
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Getting a great isolated sound from the string section2m 19s
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