Vintage gear and live gigs

gd · Post by gd » Sun Jan 30, 2005 4:38 pm

How many of you has this happened to. We were playing in November and I had brought my Source along with some EMU gear and Kawai dp. Well all of a sudden during a song the Source decides to get a life of its own. I had to unplug it and continue on with using my Classic Keys and Vintage Keys Modules. The bass player just looked over to me with a WTF look and all I could do is start laughing. When I plugged it back in it just hummed, at least it made it through Lucky Man. The guys asked me after the show why I was laughing, well it took me back to when I used to cart a B3, Melotron, MiniMoog D and a Rhodes around back in the early 70's and at least 1 of them always got tempermental during the night.

MC · Post by MC » Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:52 pm

Sounds like the "crazy source" syndrome, common problem. There is a fix.

I gigged with vintage gear for years and knock on wood they have held up well. After some hot-rodding for better reliability no less.

goldphinga · Post by **goldphinga** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:46 pm

yeah crazy source it is! mine did the same on a gig-its due to corroded battery terminals.do a search on cray source on the web and all will be revealed.

Nouveau · Post by **Nouveau** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 9:30 pm

Hahahaha wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Mine used to love that trick. It doesn't seem to act up anymore. I can't tell you why.

Oh... yeah. I can. I had it serviced!

gd · Post by gd » Tue Apr 26, 2005 10:51 pm

should be picking up up from being serviced soon, as it developed an intermittent problem which I thought was a grounding issue but just couldn't track down.