Rap/Singer looking for live Dub (space echo + multitracks) hardware for performing
I’ve started performing live and I’d like to graduate from just singing and rapping over a beats I’ve made stored as MP3’s on my phone. I have three possible set-ups in my mind, each with increasing complexity, and I figure since DJs spend a lot of time on stage you might be able to help suggest some gear. I’m hoping to do this 100% hardware if possible.
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What are some of the best devices for better sound quality, for playing just one track at a time general?
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For a simple set-up, I’d like to have a high-quality playback device for my songs, with possibly the option to send moments of the track and my mic to a Space-Echo style delay plugin that I can tweak.
Is this possible with say, a CDJ, The Boss Space Echo Emulation, and two expression pedals acting as send knobs (one to send CDJ to Space Echo, and one to Send my Voice to Space Echo).
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For a Dub Setup I’d like to get a portable hardware mixer that will let me save multiple multitracks that I bounce down from my DAW and then store on the portable hardware mixer. So that, for each song in my set, I have separate volume control over Drums, Bass, Melodics, Other. When one song ends, I can load the the next song’s multitrack, or maybe even change the order of the set list as I go depending on how the audience is responding. It would be cool if there was a “Send to the Space Echo” knob on each track too, or perhaps I would have to get a bunch of pedals.
Consider for example this song. The performer changes the volume of each stem, and each stem takes a turn being sent to the space echo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0XyWtXWuI
0:21 – Increases the Delay effect on particular Guitar chops
0:52 – Increases Delay effect on Snares
1:10 – Medium Delay wash on the Flute/Clav (not sure what instrument it is)
Here is the closest video I could find, just minus the computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSHL996oNRM
