I am building a dream rig, I’m almost there, need help with routing and possibly fabrication ideas?!

I guess I was a little vague……sorry let me expound on the matter as some of this stuff is pretty general and straightforward and some of it is definitely gold for me:

I am a professional musician, through and through. I have perfect pitch, can improvise over anything, and have even played trumpet with a couple big DJs as a guest performer due to my ties to commercial reggae roots bands I used to tour with.

i also know my way around a DAW. Most experience is with Ableton but I have an album I’m currently recording and I’m producing the tracks near and potatoes on the M+. I have two singles I just released the other day (just to release some teaser footage and start streaming, so until the album is finished with it’s 16 multi-genre songs so that I can release something that I can look back on and find “MY SOUND” from there, I have not included the vocals or trumpet work on top.)

this is a well thought out project. I haven’t myself had my own STREAM CHANNEL, but I just want to stream every performance, as well as run my audio into an already well thought together recording template in my DAW to record every live performance I do.

I have regular gigs that I book, sometimes I do 15 gigs a month, most times though I stick to my two weekly house gigs that I flip flop responsibility between the band I have and my one-man-band looper show that I have been building on for a while. But I recently was victim to a really nasty home invasion where they tied me up and took everything I built as far as music equipment over the last IDK, 15 YEARS (all the way back to my earliest trumpets and acoustic guitars).

As far as approach at THIS POINT, I’m just trying to polish my production skills to get them somewhere near the professional sound that comes out of my trumpet every time I pick it up. I have done everything to playing with Resinated and Passafire and Badfish: a Sublime Tribute to guest performances on lil Wayne’s Nightline to playing in Drum Corps and winning the world Championship TWICE to playing with two big DJs at Imagine Music Festival in 2018 after getting to meet them as a general admission ticket holder. I know what POLISHED sounds like in any genre, I have “the Gift”, Again I am just starting over with new hardware that I have a bit of learning curve on. I know I am not going to play a big show with an X1, this is mainly to have for pop-up shows, pop-up raves, and street performances during Mardi Gras and New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival to draw BIG CROWDS to tip me VERY WELL for ORIGINAL MUSIC and yes some well known music as well. I even already have two sponsors, my trumpet sponsor as well as my sponsor for my microphones, cables, stands, and anything else THAT COMPANY has that they can offer me that will benefit the cause. I also have a benefactor that puts up any and all upfront fees for any big parties I wanna try and tackle whether it be a word of mouth river party at the End Of The World (New Orleans people know the spot and know the parties we throw out there VERY WELL) or it be tailgating for the New Orleans Saints games and just set up a stage that I can roll the rig right up onto and plug my setup to whatever speakers or setup available (my own if necessary)

lastly, do you think that I would just have the funds and free time to make such a large vast encompassing setup without doing music pretty much my whole life to begin with, AND without a detailed summary of goals and achievements? Of course I know what I want to do with it and how I want to do it, it’s definitely been a rollercoaster of crazy people, A LOT of trial and error, and one knows the amount of time it takes to become a quality, proficiently trained, professional instrumentalist without learning how to produce some stuff, mix some stuff, listening to music all day, all night, or playing it, or both. I might not know what the finished product looks like and how long it will be sufficiently functional, relevant, and how effective it is going to be(I already am hearing people yelling,”hey look guys it’s the short bus band wagon!”

But if I’m generating a lot of interest, have people engaged and smiling and bumping their heads, then who cares if I’m the best Producer, how long does it take me to finish a track, what are my thoughts on compression, side-chaining, and gain structure, or if I don’t get it right instantly.

Anything great is already created, if you believe and know you are destined for greatness and your actions are towards nothing else, then all you have to do is enjoy the ride.

by the way, just an update @D-One , My trailer is built, my bike is finished, and my setup is also done. i have all the music hardware custom fitted into two road cases that fit directly into the shell i built in the front of the trailer. thats the Plus, M32, X1, also now a Z1 mk2, the microKORG, old ASUS laptop (i got a brand new air for the studio inside), the Jam, a SM58 for vox, a SM58 for horns, my telecaster, Rig Control 3, an Octapad drum pad, and an external samsung SDD 1 TB. i have 3 speakers: QSC K12.2, Bose S1 Pro, Mackie GO Thump. they fit into the front of the shell, except the k12, that goes into the back of the trailer on top of the couch frame i welded to the back with the generator. i upgraded my ASUS laptop to run better with a 2tb SSD, and 16GB RAM. Eventually will leave the Plus home and bring a MIKRO, as well as buy two of the new Mackie complete Portable PA setups (they have loopers built in with effects, its CRAZY!), that way i can keep what i currently have at home. either way i wanted to share with you the best part:

so far i have done three gigs with the setup and have busked (street performances) 4-5x weekly since my last post, and i have been perfecting my skills and honing in my song material on Maschine, and i must say its the "Dream Maschine" and SO MUCH MORE AWESOME than I originally anticpated! with the room in between the back couch and the booth in front of the trailer, i have room to stand AND have a doggy bed to the right side of me for Zeus(my Great Dane/pit mix who LOVES coming with me everywhere I go now instead of having to leave him at home! thats honestly the best part and the biggest attribute as far as the reasoning behind my INCREDIBLY increased amount of tips!). He just lays in the doggy bed with the leash locked to the frame of the bike trailer as i can go upwards of 45mph on my extremely strong and fast e-bike i custom built. i never have to go that fast in downtown New Orleans, the biggest speed limit is 35, and i rarely have to go that fast, and try not to with my dog in the back of course.

i did a pop-up rave with collaboration with a VERY BIG DJ here in Louisiana in the Riddim Scene, and I performed for 2 hours, he performed for 2 hours, and we performed together the last hour-ish, and it WAS PAAAAAAACKED. AT LEAST 600 people were at the Abandoned Navy Base and we had an absolute BLAST! i added some new lighting and a projector with a backdrop projector screen behind the trailer, and its an absolute dream come true!

of course this would not have been possible without your advice, and with the ease of the great and smart investments of Native Instruments brand hardware and software. without it i dont think i could have pulled this off the way i did, and i got a HUGE uproar of positive feedback and props on the amount of hard work and immense thought i put into this project, and it shows in my tips, in my finances, and in my content, which i will be posting online starting very soon, eventually live streming as well (i took your advice on that part IN FULL, so thank you so much!)

thanks bro, your advice really gave me a great outline for success, and i cannot thank you enough!

Sincerely,

Cameron

FOR SURE, should be within the next couple of weeks