carbon copy

[darryl2113]

So last week this band asked me to fill in for their keyboard player who double booked himself for last night. I agreed after being told that the parts weren't anything real major, "one handers" and such. I only got to practice with them once a couple days before the show. I knew there was no way I was going to remember everything. With a guitar, you don't even have to tell me what you are playing, I can figure it out in seconds.(I don't really even need a tuner unless I need to get scientificly pitch perfect.) But when it comes to keyboards it's a different story.....all the keys look the same.

Now, I can mess around in Reason (and have) all day long, I have no problems working with sequencers, just actual playing. So, at work I decide that I am gonna buy one of those MXR CC's to give me something to do while fucking up these keyboard lines. I was a little if-y about it, seeing as I already own 2 tape echos, a DMM, an AD9, and a MOEN Pretty Dolly Delay....but had none of them with me and had to go straight from work to the venue. We had just gotten 3 carbon copies in after being out of stock for a week and a half...it only took 4 hours for us to sell 2! So I had to pull the trigger and get it before anyone else could.

Anyways, long story short, my keyboard playing ended up about 50/50 as far as playing the right thing at the right time (mostly because I couldn't hear myself at all!), but the carbon copy definitely worked out great. Even though I couldn't hear myself, I would pull the old "oscilation ufo meltdown" with her and boy could I hear that screaming insanity overloading the mains!! I thought I hurt the PA at one point, but the sound guy came up to me later and said he dug what I was doing.

Very long story conveying a very simple message, MXR Carbon Copy.........you are a class act

[LowWoods]

MXR CC gets a lot of love! Some people complain about a signal loss with it's bypass. I've never owned an mxr so