MOTM

Ultimate makes a 15 rack space bolt on rack frame for their a-frame racks.
it looks like you could put 2 side by side and have 30 spaces of motm on
one a-frame tier. A good idea for all the "studio use only" guys.  -Nate

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>This is my cue to tell you all that my system fell on me yesterday! I have
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>it on the top rail of an Ultimate A-Frame--the "arms" fit nicely into the
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>SKB case grooves (I have two cases like Joe's). I reached behind my
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>patchbay/effects rack to do something, and I must have put pressure on a
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>cable or something. I had load tested the damn thing, rocked it, everything.
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>But down it came, into my arms and onto all the gear below it. One of the
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>cases nicked an end cheek on my 777. Minor blemish, but still...
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>Anyway, so there I am, holding the cases up with my arms and holding my
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>other gear against the A-frame with my legs. The arms on the two other tiers
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>had gone vertical from the pressure of cases falling against the gear on top
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>of them, so if I didn't keep my legs there, all the gear would have fallen
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>forward and onto the floor. I spent 10 minutes like a rock climber in a
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>do-or-die situation: "O.k., I'm going to slide my left pinky a centimeter to
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>the right..." I was trying to get the SKB cases gently to the floor without
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>dragging everything else (they were all patched up into the other rack) with
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>it.
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>I finally got everything on the floor gently and carefully adjusted the
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>stand and re-positioned everything (correctly this time). The funny thing is
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>that my patches were still intact! I had been recording a track immediately
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>before this, and I wasn't happy with it so I was going to have another go.
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>My SP-12 is losing its internal battery I think, because it often freaks out
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>and resets itself. Clearing the memory is the only thing I can do to bring
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>it back up to spec. So I would have lost some bizarre sample looping I had
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>done as well as a distinct pattern. No worries--I was able to record another
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>take that was much better, and the only thing that had "severed" was the
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>power connection between the two MOTM cases. The connector pulled cleanly,
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>and everything is just fine. Phew!
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>Take care,
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>David.
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: joe.pavone [mailto:fuzztone@...]
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>> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 11:49 AM
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>> To: motm@egroups.com
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>> Subject: [motm] stand for sbk pop-up mixer case
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>> For those of you who have your motms in a pop-up mixer case, or
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>> if you are thinking about it, check this out....
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>><http://www.jpq.com/jpp/motm2/motmqlside50.JPG>http://www.jpq.com/jpp/motm2/motm
>>qlside50.JPG
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>><http://www.jpq.com/jpp/motm2/motmqlfront50.JPG>http://www.jpq.com/jpp/motm2/mot
>>mqlfront50.JPG
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>> That is a quiklok amp stand model # BS-317 and is a nice way to
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>> keep your motm upright withoot popping the top and exposing the guts.
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>> ...jp
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