What personal equipment do you have?

TNasty

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We all have some equipment we can proudly (and sometimes not proudly) call ours. Whether it's a nice microphone, interesting sound board, miniature lighting console, some cheap Chinese rip-off of something, or some neat piece of equipment, just about everybody has something.

So my question to you is: What do you call yours? I think it would be cool if we could see some different equipment, just to spice things up a bit.

I'll let somebody else start off, so I don't feel like I made a thread just to show off my equipment.
 
I wear too many hats to post everything I've got but I started gathering my own stock of stuff becuase I found myself renting or borrowing things so much I got tired of the added step. I'm mixing a show for my wife this weekend so I'll start with a couple things in my audio world I've got an MXL 990/991 for recording and random fill mic as well as a shure 55 for mc/host/retro look just for variety. And a Tuscan DR-40 for recording a board feed or getting a room recording. They've all come in handy on more than one occasion.Screen Shot 2017-03-11 at 1.36.47 AM.png
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I started with a handful of Chinese LED pars just to play around with. They were nice to have around to play with various consoles and software at the house. I had been renting some rebranded Chinese LED fixtures for uplighting events and such that I did on the side. I quickly realized that it was silly to be paying 15% of what the light costs to rent it for a day. I ended up with 24 decent flat pars, tons of AC and data cable, and a little rack with a dmx king artnet to dmx converter, a wireless router, a switch, and an opto. The rack now lives at work networked in with the console. It's just so much nicer to have wireless control available all the time even if the console isn't even on.
 
Although I'm officially retired, I still have some sound and lighting gear I use for various volunteer gigs like Church talent shows and a Choral group I belong to. Do more sound than lights. For sound, Mics, amps, and speakers are good (Sennheiser/Shure, QSC, JBL.) but the head end stuff is Behringer. Works fine for what I use it for. Lighting is mostly Chinese stuff. Gone are the days of high end stuff, now just Chauvet, Elation, etc. Still have a nice Lycian followspot though ;) Again, works for what I use it for. Lifts are L16. Didn't want to go cheap on that.
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I do a lot of work at my old high school, and with a severe lack of funding, much of the gear that I bring in has been bought specifically for use at the school. That being said, I now own a Presonus RM32AI, a good amount of Chinese LED pars from Amazon, a Chauvet Intimidator 150, 5 ADJ Dimmer Packs, a Hurricane H2 Hazer, A Mister Kool for low-laying fog, a Fog Fury Jett, and a few random movers, most recently a 4 pack of the Lixadias that had been discussed here recently. Working on expanding my inventory over the next year, and luckily the school department has finally realized the importance of funding the arts, so I may actually be able to have them update their ancient systems. Haha! Initial cost was a bit high for me, but now that I have this gear, its allowed me to be able to book more gigs at this venue, make them realize that they should be putting money into their theatre arts department. For me, the look on the kid's faces when they see their shows be highlighted by this gear makes it all worth it! (I think this train of thought made sense.)
 
Now that there seems to be some decent interest in this thread, I figure I'll go ahead and post some of my stuff.

Here's my Audio Technica wireless set I have. Got it for real cheap from a friend who was getting a new system.




Now here's an interesting thing. It's not really a professional device, but being an amplified audio unit, I decided I'd share it.

I present to you, the Guitammer Buttkicker.



I've also ordered a Mackie Mix8 for myself. I got it so that I can amplify my guitar just a bit before sending it into my machine, and to do some nice sound recording for a friend of mine (who's got access to a shotgun mic).
Here's one of his videos if you just want to see the kind of stuff we produce:
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Ah, the buttkicker. When I shadowed Hamilton, that's one of the first things I noticed at FOH.
 
Ah, the buttkicker. When I shadowed Hamilton, that's one of the first things I noticed at FOH.
Gotta love how I jammed some magic erasers between the chair and the adjustment lever so it doesn't rattle like mad. It's a shame that my grandma lives in the basement, or else I'd be able to crank that thing non stop.
 
ETC Congo Jr with a Master Fader wing!

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One of these days Ill take a picture of my Qlab rig. Mac mini, Focusrite interface exc
 
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Oh, where to begin??

Tools/Rigging: About 25 spansets, 4,762 uncomfortable harnesses (OK, maybe 12), 1 20' long section of webbing to make a comfy Swiss seat, UFT, 200' of 5" hawser, Tassimo coffee maker, 'biners, tools, tools, tools...
Lighting: Fleenor Gizmo, A coupla Hog consoles, some 2K blacklight cannons, 5K and 2K Mole Fresnels...
Video: 2" quadruplex machine, 1" Type C, MII, BetacamSP, D-2, D-3, D-5, DVCPro, 3/4", EIAJ 1/2" B&W, much outboard gear, GV300XL switcher, Steadicam, cabling, Blackmagic HD cam...
Audio: A variety of analog consoles, C-12, KM184s, 77DXs, U87, JH-600 strips converted to 19" rack eq/pre, 4T 1/4" MX5050, MC2300s, MC2105, MC275s, MPI-4, Tek 760A, billions and billions of cables...
Test gear: Tek TM500 series stuff... lots of TM500 modules..., Videotek WFM/Vector, Leader signal generators, HP counter (nixie), Bird SWR meter and slugs, home made transistor matcher...
 
Different people have been giving me lighting equipment they no longer use or they have replaced. It's older stuff but functional. 2 crank-up trees, 12 Par56, 2 tree dimmers, 3 12x2.4Ks, 2 6x2.4Ks, a couple manual consoles, and a Strand 300. I have used pieces from it so far but not as a system.
 
I have my racks of
(8) Sennheiser E100's with Ant.Distro
(1) Focusrite Scarlett 18i8
Shure Beta 58/57
a little older Crown Amp for,
(2) JBL MP410 (I usuallly use as front fills or delays in places i do sound work at.
(I have some much (4) older Gen1/2 Sennheriser EW100 systems that I only break out if I'm desperate for channels, or the venue I'm at has unreliable wirelesss and and need to supplement)

These are probably my oldest and most go to pieces of gear i use. I also have my MightBright music stand lights, and a toolbox of adapters and cabletester, Qbox etc.

Next up or me maybe my own console (been looking at a A&H GLD112) but so many places I go have at least basic digital consoles, money to rent, or quality analogue consoles that work for small shows, i'm not really desperate to have my own. (i know they could rent from me with my own console! But those are only a couple a gigs a year and it would take a long time to pay of the investment of the gear that I would want to own)
 
A literal pile of hand tools, power tools and various other equipment to build most things. Not too much on the tech side, just some old fixtures I've "collected" and a few testers.
 
I was thinking as I condensed and changed my gig bag over to a pelican case that while we have a bunch of these threads (see also whats in your tool bags threads) we don't really have one for gig bags. Mine is geared mostly towards audio and some AV at this point but I'll take some pictures and list what I've got in there and what some of the others guys in the shop have in theirs.
 
I was thinking as I condensed and changed my gig bag over to a pelican case that while we have a bunch of these threads (see also whats in your tool bags threads) we don't really have one for gig bags. Mine is geared mostly towards audio and some AV at this point but I'll take some pictures and list what I've got in there and what some of the others guys in the shop have in theirs.

I've had these same thoughts, but I usually end up putting together a different "miscellaneous" case for whatever gig I'm doing, depending on what else I'm already taking/what that venue/show has.
 
I often have multiple bags and still do if I"m also doing production photos or video of a production. But I was carrying around a couple bags of audio and av gear as well. The pelican is small enough for me to fly with it but large enough to combine them all into one package with wheels. I"ll still pare it down for smaller or more specific jobs but most of the gigs I'm on now encompass all of it and I got tired of carrying it all separately. I shouldn't have to but its safer to assume the venue doesn't have it or tape or etc and that someone who packed my other cases forgot something or didn't account for something or someone will throw something at us last minute.
 
My primary gig bag leans either electrics/general tech or carpentry depending on the gig im working. There's a core of tools that always stay in it and then I add or subtract depending on expected workload or location.

I take that bag everywhere too, from weddings to weekends at the family cabin. Always comes in handy.
 
I owned a store front theater for a few years, so bought a lighting kit with PARS and Lekos, DMX control board and portable dimmers. The lights are now part of the school's meager supply, and I use the board and dimmers to teach hang and focus on trees because I can't take the kids up to the lights (district policy - no students on the lift).
 

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