Using US gear in the EU?
Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 9:12 am
Exciting news:
My band has been invited to play a couple dates in Germany this November, so we've set up (and are still setting up!) a short European tour (Italy, France, Germany). (Very last minute for German scheduling, as we're discovering. Itinerary so far is based around where we have friends: Florence, Paris, Münster, Hanover).
It's all a bit DIY, so the backline might be a bit of question mark at some of the dates. Is it worth bringing gear beyond guitars + (small) pedalboard? We'll be traveling by train, so that limits things.
Amps: We're already bringing one of those newfangled Aguilar tone hammer bass amps (it's dual voltage + DI, plus it sounds amazing for being 4lbs!) but I'm trying to think of some portable guitar solutions, too.
The simplest solution may be to get a sansamp (or similar) and run straight to PA as a last resort.
How hard would it be to get a US Pro Junior to run on European power? (I'd hate to haul it over there and fry it). I fear the step down transformer might weigh as much as the amp. Or: would it make sense to have a dual (or EU) voltage transformer installed?
Drums: at the mercy of venues probably. One of our Paris dates is supposedly "no drums" so we're planning on bringing our Roland SPDS sample pad thing for a low volume set, leaning more to Kraftwerk than MTV Unplugged... (And for the record, if you are doing an unplugged thing, for the love all that's good: *brushes not bongos* )
Any advice / thoughts welcome.
And please drop me a line if you have any club / band contacts (esp. Zurich, Milan, Bologna, Cologne) for this tour (and we're planning on coming back in May/June 2018.)
My band has been invited to play a couple dates in Germany this November, so we've set up (and are still setting up!) a short European tour (Italy, France, Germany). (Very last minute for German scheduling, as we're discovering. Itinerary so far is based around where we have friends: Florence, Paris, Münster, Hanover).
It's all a bit DIY, so the backline might be a bit of question mark at some of the dates. Is it worth bringing gear beyond guitars + (small) pedalboard? We'll be traveling by train, so that limits things.
Amps: We're already bringing one of those newfangled Aguilar tone hammer bass amps (it's dual voltage + DI, plus it sounds amazing for being 4lbs!) but I'm trying to think of some portable guitar solutions, too.
The simplest solution may be to get a sansamp (or similar) and run straight to PA as a last resort.
How hard would it be to get a US Pro Junior to run on European power? (I'd hate to haul it over there and fry it). I fear the step down transformer might weigh as much as the amp. Or: would it make sense to have a dual (or EU) voltage transformer installed?
Drums: at the mercy of venues probably. One of our Paris dates is supposedly "no drums" so we're planning on bringing our Roland SPDS sample pad thing for a low volume set, leaning more to Kraftwerk than MTV Unplugged... (And for the record, if you are doing an unplugged thing, for the love all that's good: *brushes not bongos* )
Any advice / thoughts welcome.
And please drop me a line if you have any club / band contacts (esp. Zurich, Milan, Bologna, Cologne) for this tour (and we're planning on coming back in May/June 2018.)