gdgross
Experienced
MKeditor said:I don't recognize some of the components. Can you give us a description?
Sure. Axe (of course) in the bottom two spaces.
The whitish thing is a D-Tar mama bear acoustic guitar preamp. I don't know what that box does, but it's magic. A pickup goes in, and an acoustic guitar comes out. I have never heard my acoustic sound so good plugged in.
Everything else is just for monitoring myself. The white component next to the mama bear is a stereo mixer. Axe in ch1, unpowered monitor in ch 2, and powered monitor in ch 3. The powered monitor input comes out of a rolls headphone tap, which is the black unit to the left of the mixer. It simply provides a line from a powered monitor send. The stereo mixer sends a mix to a jack on the rear panel, and also to the wireless monitor transmitter. That is the final unit you see, a mipro MI-808 on top there.
Everything works great, but I have had a little trouble getting noise from the antenna of the transmitter. I am going to relocate it to the back of the rack and see if that helps out. But generally, things work great, and I haven't absolutely had to go 100% in-ear at any gig yet, so I'm okay for the time being.
There's jacks and loops and everything in the back to connect to house systems, monitors, etc. As well as an AC outlet to plug my powered monitor into if necessary.
I really like how compact everything is.