Je ne crois pas avoir vu ça ici, c'est un post de John Wesley (Porcupine Tree) lui-même qui parle de son pedalboard (et celui de Steven Wilson) sur TGP:
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Hi Realfi, the Gigrig really changed things up for us. Steve, the other guitarist in the Porcupine Tree and I had "rack" rigs for a long while, him a Bradshaw, me a GCX. With the channel switching and controller functions I need for the gig, the GCX only left me 5 open loops for the actual pedals, so after doubling up on a few, I had to use midi and multieffects etc. to do the gig. There were also "hum" issues in certain countries we could never get rid of. Steve's Bradshaw was great, he needed less switching options so it was very nice, just too big for us. We do a lot of international travel and shipping rack and pedal boards became very expensive.
Bottom line is, the gigrig solved all of those problems. Steve uses a Midi 8 (the small one) for amp switching and bringing in an effected chain and taking it out, he uses a TC G system for effect bank and loop pedal switching. I was using a midi 8, but moved up to the Pro 14. UP until this week I had a G System in the loop for "timed delays" but now have replaced it with the AD80 and the Analogman modded DD6 which is fantastic. With the Pro 14 I have twice the pedals I had before, all my fav old stuff and boutique stuff I was afraid to use because of level loss and hum issues can be used now, because of the pre and post boost funtions in the gigrig, the isolated outputs of the Gigrig has eliminated hums in BOTH of our rigs in all countries, and the purity of the signal path has taken my tone through the roof.
I switch in a Piezo combined with amp a lot, and there were always hum issues from the different Phantom power supplied in each venue, using the isolation of the Humdinger, this has been completely eliminated.
Now we are both down to one pedal board case each for shipping taking a combined 250 pounds of racks at an average of 3 to 4 dollars a pound in international cartage per trip across. We have both eliminated the hum issues, and for me, I get to use all my favorite boutique and old pedals,( 79 AD80, 74 Elec Mistress, 75 Script Phase 90, Blue Echodrive etc...) these I could not use before.
I still have my smaller gig rig, the midi 8, this I use for gigs not requiring the amount of "tones" that the Porcupine Tree gig requires.
Steve's Bradshaw rig was a great rig if it did not have to be shipped so much , or if we were touring on an "enormo-dome" budget, so for him there is not so much performance improvement as much as "cost and convenience" improvement. His new rig does everything his old rig did, with a much smaller footprint in the trailor and on stage, and saves us on the cartage.
My gains from my going to the GigRig are tenfold, I doubled the amount of sounds I can get, am able to use the pedals I want, and have eliminated so many cost and hum/issues, that to think back to my old rig gives me a headache.
Hope this answers your question, sorry about rambling, but I am at this moment, bored in the back of a tour-bus amped up on coffee....!
