Travelin' Rigs

skullservant · Post by **skullservant** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:14 pm

Putting together a little travel rig that will be nice for hotel jamming and improv looping on the road.
Anyone have a tiny/small travel rig?

Just bought a Luicite Loog electric 3 string guitar to run into a small battery powered amp, with a small rotating board of effects. I want to keep that small and efficient as well, so for the time being it will be Driving Notion, BitQuest, and my DL8 for looping

kbit · Post by **kbit** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:22 pm

I brought my mustang bass, mini, rusty box, and el cap on the road with me, plus a Tascam DR40 for recording. I hate playing through headphones though. Probably going to get rid of the rusty box and get a lil amp instead. Your setup seems pretty cool though!

Eivind August · Post by **Eivind August** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:23 pm

Yeah, I have Fender Mini Deluxe battery amp I use when playing at night/outside/travelling/when I can't be bothered to sit down by the stack. Have a homemade board with room for four stadard-ish sized effects that I use with it, with a rotating cast of pedals (generally what at the time isn't on the big board). I find it pretty stimulating to have a completely different setup laying around. Also, the battery amp is surprisingly good when run clean.

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:36 pm

skullservant wrote:
Just bought a Luicite Loog electric 3 string guitar...

Awesome.

skullservant · Post by **skullservant** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:41 pm

Chankgeez wrote:
skullservant wrote:
Just bought a Luicite Loog electric 3 string guitar...
Awesome.

My excuse is that it will be Hunter's haha

MEC · Post by **MEC** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 5:48 pm

[youtube]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n8FJ-RAw_YU[/youtube]

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 6:03 pm

skullservant wrote:

My excuse is that it will be Hunter's haha

Well, we expect a full review. Wouldn't wanna give Hunter a dud. Gotta make sure it's a worthy first instrument for him.

skullservant · Post by **skullservant** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 6:25 pm

Chankgeez wrote:
skullservant wrote:

My excuse is that it will be Hunter's haha
Well, we expect a full review. Wouldn't wanna give Hunter a dud. Gotta make sure it's a worthy first instrument for him.

Most definitely

I'm going to assemble it for him and bring it on the road with me for a bit. My wife bought him a mini 6 string acoustic yesterday and he loves it. Right now he just rips the strings up vs strumming but he will get there haha

Derelict78 · Post by **Derelict78** » Sun Jun 28, 2015 8:16 pm

iPad, irig, bass, headphones.

frigid midget · Post by **frigid midget** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:03 am

Not entirely the same kind of traveling, but here's what I plan on taking with me on our next camping trip:

-Worksite radio. A makita in my case. Durable as fuck doesn't mind getting a little dust or rain or puke or beer spilled on it. I've got a bunch of Makita tools, and the batteries are interchangable. Two fully charged batteries should be able to last up to 16 hours, the newer ones run supposedly to twice as long.
-Line level amp sim pedal. I read that Joyo makes damn good tech 21 clones, and they can be had dirt cheap. There's all kinds of pod-esque solutions out there too these days though, I haven't had the time yet to look into it.
-A little adpapter thingy to hook up a guitar cable to the radio's little aux input.

I tried it once with a Johnson J-Station. Which is nothing fancy, but it has at least one or two amp models that sounds as good if not better than the pod I tried back than. Not sure how much the pod has evolved since then though. Anyway, I liked it more than playing with headphones.

It's not the sort of rig you haul around in a back pack, you'd have to be able to bring an actual electric guitar, a cable, a pedal, and a radio that's hardly smaller than a little ss practice amp.

I already have the radio, so there's no way I'm spending a couple hundreds on a little gimmicky Roland 'Cube street' or whatever, it's not like ANY travel rig will sound GOOD if you're used to playing through a $100 half stack

Uncle Grandfather · Post by **Uncle Grandfather** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:16 am

Pignose 7-100 is awesome sounding. Here's a clip of Zappa playing through one, sounds amazing. He used one in the studio to good effect too.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0nImsfMvE[/youtube]

jrmy · Post by **jrmy** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:45 am

Lucite Loog looks SIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK! I want one now, but not for my kid.

Ok, he can have one, I suppose. But I'm getting my own, too!

Chankgeez · Post by **Chankgeez** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:23 am

jrmy wrote:Lucite Loog looks SIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK! I want one now, but not for my kid.

Ok, he can have one, I suppose. But I'm getting my own, too!

I was telling skully, I wanted to get a Loog for my nephew and my sister wuz like "You know it only has three strings, right?"

… and I was like

"Yeah"

(Lucite's definitely the best "finish")

rustywire · Post by **rustywire** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 11:32 am

For about 6 months I had an Effectrode Blackbird. That was really cool but headphones and direct to iface/board aint my style.
For a travellin rig I'd sooner get a SF Champ, ZT Lunchbox for heavier options...but the ZVEX Nano head is awesome and I have a single lightweight open back 12" for it...or I'd get something similar but with a 10".

Uncle Grandfather wrote:Pignose 7-100 is awesome sounding. Here's a clip of Zappa playing through one, sounds amazing. He used one in the studio to good effect too.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0nImsfMvE[/youtube]

My first thought for this thread, as well

Derelict78 · Post by **Derelict78** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:21 pm

Atomic music had ^ one a few weeks ago as well

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