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