Two racks of wireless gear and amps were lost, we filed claims, then two months later they found them in Texas and sent them back - all gear inside off the rack rails and smashed. Twice our luggage and some gear ended up in different airports than where we were going. We watched as one of our rack cases fell off the luggage cart and the baggage handler just kept going. The younger newbies working the check-in counters almost went out of their way to screw with us, even after we greased them nicely. Since then we've never had worse luck with our stuff getting lost, misdirected and damaged. This past August when we started touring after a year & a half of nothing, all the experienced baggage handlers we knew at EWR (Newark NJ airport) were gone - the travel industry meltdown caused them to look for other jobs. Another reason I started bringing my own keyboard when I was able to. My NanoKontrol is for emergencies now, but I think it's a great way to go for fly dates if you're able to roll with the feel of a "keyboard-du-jour."Īnd at my very first gig with AWB they supplied me with a Motif that had a burned-out backlight on the LCD. No backline company we ever dealt with had my Roland controller, or any controller-only keyboard for that matter - it was almost always Motifs. Before I had status on United and could fly my stuff for free, I got Motifs at the gigs, and I disliked them enough to volunteer my personal keyboard once we could fly it at no extra cost.
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If you anticipate flying more and enjoy knowing you'll have the exact keyboard you're used to, then a flight case might be worth it. I do fly with my keyboard, but it's a 10 lb Roland A800 Pro in an old SKB injection-molded plastic flight case I had collecting dust it was for my XP50. Then it doesn't matter what keyboard you get, or whether it even has sounds or is purely a controller. I carry a Korg NanoKontrol I can paste onto any midi keyboard and work my laptop setup with it just has to transmit midi notes on channel 1 and have a sustain and expression pedal. Why not Mainstage everything? Surely there's a decent-enough rhodes & b3 in MS, at least to get you through this gig.
On this particular gig, it's more Rhodes/B3 heavy – I really only use my laptop for a sample at the top of the show, and a couple of synth sounds that would not be dealbreakers if I didn't have them. buy a single Gator slim 61 flight case – which will fit either one of my keyboards – as an investment for when I might need a flight case and I absolutely *have* to bring my gearįor those doing mostly fly dates, do you tour with your own gear, or you backline and hope for the best? a small mini-controller (like the Akai MPK or Korg nanowhatever) that I can shove in a backpack or carry-on, just to launch the sample, and backline the DP
I don't have flight cases for my gear, so I'm thinking of two options here: I was talking with one bandleader and there's a run where he thinks it might be complicated to backline a controller.
Any digital piano and MIDI controller can work. My setup is not complicated: Nord Electro 5D on the bottom, Novation Launchkey running Mainstage on top. I have a few fly dates coming up, and I always backline my gear.
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