E-drums: could they be a common thing for small bands gigs?

[HotRats]

Take a video from out front if you can. I am interested to see how the kit sounds in the mix.

I've taken one and my daughter made some too. Tomorrow I'll take take a look and do the uploads.

 

[HotRats]

Kemper, and it sounds great.

I advocate for the use of Kemper, Helix, QC, or AxeIII Fx on stage as well. It's a great deal easier to get a good mix when the guitars aren't blasting high volume onto the stage as well. No different than the drums. The only difference being that guitar processors still require a speaker on stage for getting string action for leads.

Amps blasting into the mics or to the audience?

Thai is how I placed my loud amp+cab.
In the stage edge, pointing backwards towards me and basically to the drummer.

Problem solved.

With an acoustic kit (and mics) on stage I would have put it on the side at 90°.

There's no mic on my cab because I use a Torpedo cab m+

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Why is it that you don’t just use a keyboard, or trigger your guitar sounds with MIDI? Or plug directly in a DI?

karaoke would be just fine...vocals are king; backing tracks for everything else

 

[paisleywookiee]

No, and it is spelled Ann Arbor in the US. We dropped all the stupid British U's shortly after kicking them out of here.

And it’s not Dream Theatre, it’s Dream Theater!

 

[OneEng]

No, and it is spelled Ann Arbor in the US. We dropped all the stupid British U's shortly after kicking them out of here.

You beat me to it.

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Amps blasting into the mics or to the audience?

Thai is how I placed my loud amp+cab.
In the stage edge, pointing backwards towards me and basically to the drummer.

Problem solved.

With an acoustic kit (and mics) on stage I would have put it on the side at 90°.

There's no mic on my cab because I use a Torpedo cab m+

Keeping the amps pointed toward you gives you the string action but keeps the beamy cab out of the audience.

So the Torpedo cab m+ goes to the PA?

I also see your gig notes. I JUST stopped doing this and started using BandHelper on a tablet along with a CME WiDi wireless MIDI to change my Kemper for each song. It also lets me put notes up on my tablet for each song along with the setlist order.

My damn eyes have just gotten to be such crap ..... especially in low light, that even when I print my cheat sheet for the set as big as I can fit on a single sheet of paper, I still have to lean over to read it now. My tablet is perfect for this and it also eliminates my tap dance between songs. I still do in-song changes with my foot controller since we don't play to a click track.

Hope your gig went well!