I may have mentioned before that my band and I are taking a break since I will be a father in the next few days. With a new baby, I can’t be running all over the place, playing shows and leaving my wife with the baby, I have to 
help her out. I mean, she did already carry him for almost 9 months so I owe it to her. Instead, we’ve set up the rehearsal space with all of our gigging gear rather than our rehearsal gear. The rehearsal gear consists of 2 x Digitech RP350 processors , a Whirlwind Director Passive Direct Box for bass and my drum set completely outfitted with microphones all connected to a older Soundcraft mixer to achieve a sweet in ear mix. Now, we’re going to write and rehearse with our gig gear so we can further perfect our stage sound and make sure all the amps are dialed in and that the drums are tuned the way they should be.
This is rather exciting for us because we haven’t been able to really rock out completely for quite some time besides playing shows. The plan is to spend as much time as possible playing music together like we have in the past. Previously, I rented a house with a nice sized basement in which we had our gig gear available to rock. That was super fun and very productive. The ability to have 3 hour long jam sessions while switching instruments on the fly really helps the creative juices flow and it helps to keep me practiced not only in drums but guitar, bass and keys. Even if all you do is alternate between 3 arrangements, you can work on solos, breakdowns and more when it’s all right there and you don’t have to worry about tripping over cables from in-ear monitors. I’ll post a stitched picture of the entire jam space in a few days and then I’ll update this post. Looking forward to it!
-Ryan
Tags: Digital-Amp-Modelers, Gigging-Gear, Rehearsal, Song-Writing
