Mackie DFX-8 And Digitech Vocal 300: How Funky Is Too Funky?
We really can't get enough of Bruce Lamont, and this video may as well be exhibit "A" as to why. As the sax player in Yakuza -- an experimental metal-jazz group out of Chicago -- Bruce employs a live effects rig that might baffle or even intimidate a lesser FOH mixer. That's why he employs a Mackie DFX-8 and a DI to help make a sound guy's life a little easier. See? Being thoughtful and rocking hard are not mutually exclusive!
[BRUCE LAMONT PERFORMING WITH YAKUZA]
BRUCE LAMONT: I’m Bruce Lamont. I play saxophone in the metal band Yakuza.
As of late, I’ve incorporated a line mixer, not more than the size of a smaller one just so I can boost the output gain to the pedals. The input gain on this pedal, say I run this mic cable directly in here, unfortunately can’t handle a whole lot so it distorts quite a bit even at the lowest levels, and the idea is to try and have the clearest and the highest quality of just tonally the sound. So, I found by utilizing a line mixer before, it actually kind of like rectifies that issue and so we go line mixer into the effects down the line.
And with the different type of effect, different EQ settings and what not, what this is like a wah effect. I rolled off quite a bit of low end so we’re getting a kind of rumble on or thing.
[BRUCE LAMONT PLAYING SAXOPHONE THROUGH THE MACKIE DFX-8 AND DIGITECH VOCA.L 300]
Here I got a stutter, stutter effect. It’s like a tremolo.
[BRUCE LAMONT PLAYING SAXOPHONE THROUGH THE MACKIE DFX-8 AND DIGITECH VOCA.L 300]
I want to get wow with that wah with a little delay but I was like oh, I was like that pedal was real screwy.
[BRUCE LAMONT PLAYING SAXOPHONE THROUGH THE MACKIE DFX-8 AND DIGITECH VOCA.L 300]
I actually use my own DI now to basically try to make it as easy as possible for any sort of sound person is concerned. They won’t have to do anything but basically just put a mic up on stage and just take the line from them, plug it into the DI, have my own mic, my own line, go for it and that’s it, you know. And then as far as EQ -- And then now it’s even nice as well that I have my own line mixer that would at least be, you know, like a two-band EQ that I can kind of mess with so I can kind of like, you know, shift things around if need be or whatever, you know, as far as sending a signal to the sound person if they really don’t know how to deal with all this kind of stuff so. But you know, some do, some don’t.
[BRUCE LAMONT PERFORMING WITH YAKUZA]
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