Topic: Who's got the fastest setup

[jpschust]

is toss the wook like the caper toss?

[Tall Adam]

With everyone bragging, we should set up a head-to-head contest. ala the ones they have for bartenders. We'd have such categories as quickest rig set up, quickest breakdown, blocking competetion, toss the wooks and hottie spotting. 

I can see it now...Taper Olympics!!!

we do something like this over the summer at my summer job (raft guide in maine) guide olympics...all random events remotely related to rafting with a whole lot of drinking and fun involved. kicks ass

[redseed]

I have the fastest setup!

SBD->MT-877
 

[Tall Adam]

yep you also have your ass kicked out of the club the fastest when the FOH catches you fuckin with his board and tears you a new one...

[Ed.]

i'm in at about 5 minutes.  usually i have 5 people handing me tshirts or other stuff saying "can you put this in your bag" which gets annoying.  that happened at mmj, i was having some trouble getting my stand up and i have 5 of my friends handing me cds and tshirts expecting me to throw them in my bag so they can get a good spot up front.

[urobouros]

i'm in at about 5 minutes.  usually i have 5 people handing me tshirts or other stuff saying "can you put this in your bag" which gets annoying.  that happened at mmj, i was having some trouble getting my stand up and i have 5 of my friends handing me cds and tshirts expecting me to throw them in my bag so they can get a good spot up front.

Looks like 5 folks that won't get a copy of the show! 

[Ed.]

haha, naw, i just yelled at them a bit after the show and said that i'd be happy to place all of their stuff by my bag or in my bag, but when i'm still setting up is not the time to ask.  gotta way 15 minutes or so, so i can calm down and focus on things around me.  for some reason i get really tense right before a show and i stay tense until after i get setup.  then i get tense again right before the music starts.

[urobouros]

I get excited just because I want to do it right.  I just started taping, but I'm a perfectionist in terms of doing the best with what I have.  I know that my rig is pretty low-end but I still like the tape I've pulled with it thus far.  Anything is better than the ole' MS907>MD setup! 

[Ed.]

nothing wrong with the luxes i ran those for close to a year.  +t

[creekfreak]

hmmm...think we need to have some taper olympics here....time people and see how fast they can pull it off, could make it interesting, apply some pressure...throw some spun wooks at you, dump some water to simulate rain...etc

[Tim]

some of those goggles that simulate being drunk should be used... either that or we should actually get wasted before hand

[Tall Adam]

i vote for the latter  . ya know, this could be done at a bigger festival during those boring lazy pre-noon hours....i swear im not a total nerd, just a thought...

[Simp-Dawg]

i'm up in a couple mins...take the film cannisters off the caps, drop the stud adaptor which i leave in my schoeps mount onto the stand, plug in and power up the jb3 and psp-2, mod sbm-1, and hosa box (all 3 of which can be done in a matter of seconds), switch to record mode on jb3 and double check i'm going wav and that's it.

set up and tear down are easy for me...it's keeping everything going during the show that i've been having problems wiht

mostly just battery issues, easy enough to fix.

[Tim]

it's keeping everything going during the show that i've been having problems wiht

not uncommon for little stupid shit to go wrong when you completely switch rigs... you'll get it worked out soon. I need to hear some of your new tapes...

[JAH]

All depends on the bag used.....stealth or the Carin take time to re-situate if the MMe is being used...using the sbm vice the MME is the same as using the RAKGEAR bag...all set up (including tape in the recorder), just pull out the mics (that are in film cans and on the bar) and hit record.  Either hand hold or clamp.

JAH

edited for spelling  bad>bag