Ugly Bunny
Power User
Epic outdoor gig Saturday night. Halfway through our encore song, we started to get a torrential downpour. The tarp over the bandstage, it turned out, was not waterproof. Literally every piece of gear the band had got soaked, including 3 of my guitars (a PRS and two Fenders), my Korg Kronos 61 keyboard, my Axe Fx III, my Helix Stomp, my bassist's Helix, my guitarist's entire tube amp rig, all of our lights and PA gear, all of our drum stuff, and all the cases and peripheral/accessories/cables. I dumped gallons of water out of my cable bin which also had a mixer and other gear in it.
Long story short, we weren't even rushing to cover things up or anything. That's how bad it was. It was like, welp, I guess there goes $30k in gear.
Long story long - everything works. EVERYTHING. No damage whatsoever. We all got to our various homes, unpacked, dried everything as best as we could with towels, then splayed everything or opened all the gear up and ran fans on them for a couple days.
I'm floored. Granted, I had my Axe in a 4U Gator rack, but it still got rained on from the front and back. I gave it a little extra time in front of the fan after I toweled it off.
Anyway. That's my story. Axe is still rockin!
Long story short, we weren't even rushing to cover things up or anything. That's how bad it was. It was like, welp, I guess there goes $30k in gear.
Long story long - everything works. EVERYTHING. No damage whatsoever. We all got to our various homes, unpacked, dried everything as best as we could with towels, then splayed everything or opened all the gear up and ran fans on them for a couple days.
I'm floored. Granted, I had my Axe in a 4U Gator rack, but it still got rained on from the front and back. I gave it a little extra time in front of the fan after I toweled it off.
Anyway. That's my story. Axe is still rockin!