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It can be simpler than that - SKB's sit quite securely on pretty much any folding keyboard stand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Hamburg" <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com> To: "Looper's Delight" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 7:47 PM Subject: Racking solution > So, I think I've actually now got a racking solution that should work fairly > well when traveling. (Think because I haven't taken it anywhere yet.) > > I've got a 6-space Rackcrate -- a milk crate like thing with handles and > rack rails. It obviously isn't great for protecting equipment from the > elements, but it's light and reasonably tough. I used this both for > Loopstock 2002 and the Y2K3 Santa Cruz Loopfest. The problem has been where > to put it where I can get to it reasonably easily while playing. I've >been > balancing it on top of a milk crate but that's been non-ideal. > > Recently, I tried putting it on an Ultimate Support Systems Genesis amp > stand. This is a nice little stand that folds up compactly. I used a bungee > cord to attach the top front of the rack to the post at the back of the > stand. This placed the rack a little lower than I'd like but the angle >was > quite good. Sitting on the drum throne that I use for playing guitar with > this in front of me, it was easy to get to all of the controls. > > Just one problem... > > All of the weight for the rack is at the front so things wanted to go > plunging over face-first immediately. I discovered that the box my Mo-FX > came in worked perfectly for wedging the rack upward. True the back leg >of > the amp stand was prone to drift off the ground, but it was basically > stable. The weight of the rack, however, was putting dents in the box and > the box was drifting forward so this didn't look like a good long term > solution. The front of my 4-space Anvil rack worked well for propping >this > all up, but it looked like it could easily slip out. It also would be >sort > of a pain to carry around that one piece. > > So, today's project: My son and I (well, mostly me) just built a little > A-frame sawhorse stand out of PVC pipe to put under the front of the rack > with a bungee cord to anchor it in place. (One plus about the Rackcrate >is > that it has lots of places to hook bungee cords.) It sticks out slightly > further than I'd like, but it looks like it should hold well now. My EDP > foot controller just fits between the legs of the A-frame. > > So, total rack setup: > > 6-space Rackcrate > Genesis amp stand > Homemade PVC stand > 2 bungee cords > > More parts than might be ideal, but the weight is very manageable. > > Finally, and most importantly, I need to give credit to my wife. She's >the > one who suggested bungee cords and she's the one who suggested PVC when I > was contemplating building something out of wood. She may not >particularly > show signs of connecting with the music I play, but she was the source of > two very useful ideas in this process. > > Now, I just need to deal with the mass of pedals at my feet. > > Mark > > P.S. If you want to build one yourself, I used 1/2" PVC pipe. I used the > connectors that basically look like the corner of a cube at either end of > the apex. I needed to put screw adapters on these. I used four equal length > legs coming down from the Apex. The front ones end in caps. The back ones > end in right angle connectors to a second crossbeam. Lengths: > > Legs: 9.5" > Apex crossbeam: 15" > Rear crossbeam: 16.5+" > > I think I'm using a 24" bungee cord on top of the rack and a 30" bungee cord > to secure the PVC stand to the rack. >