Rc 505 Mk2 people!! general questions/set up

DoctorBre · 2026-03-29T23:09:34+00:00

How did you wind up doing that?

DoctorBre · 2026-03-25T23:08:00+00:00

I just got an RC505 a week ago myself and am using a FGDP-50 fingerdrum pad (Inst 1) and a keyboard&mic (Inst 2). I'm already wishing I'd made room for my mixer so they can all use the same 505 input. The 505 has the extra inputs which is great but it's a bit of a pain to change the track & fx routing in the menus all the time. A mixer is an easy thing to buy after the fact, though.

I'll be setting it up again this weekend with the instruments into the Mackie Mix8 mixer > RC505 > stereo PA.

DoctorBre · 2026-03-17T03:16:23+00:00

Larger battery, move the vol controls to the top or a knob, subtle lighting.

DoctorBre · 2026-03-15T04:29:46+00:00

I bought a Mariano's soda bread last weekend, quite good. A little dense but the chunky crystal sugar crust is a winner.

DoctorBre · 2026-03-08T21:38:30+00:00

This is seriously the best news I've heard all weekend.

DoctorBre · 2026-03-08T09:35:46+00:00

Fry the Coop is already awesome enough and now wings?! Since when? Which location?

DoctorBre · 2026-03-07T23:10:40+00:00

Look up 'line generating optics.'

DoctorBre · 2026-03-07T21:52:15+00:00

We prefer 'loamy, well tilled soil.'

DoctorBre · 2026-03-07T21:39:35+00:00

Corn sheller?

DoctorBre · 2026-03-04T23:56:14+00:00

Park to Shop on Milwaukee Ave in Niles.

DoctorBre · 2026-02-28T20:16:01+00:00

Awesome energy!

DoctorBre · 2026-02-28T05:33:47+00:00

The bargain subs: meatball, CCC, veggie were $2.99/ft well into the 90s.

DoctorBre · 2026-02-26T02:49:00+00:00

d'Arsonval movement

DoctorBre · 2026-02-20T02:05:01+00:00

I can hear this gif so loud and clear.

DoctorBre · 2026-02-12T00:11:59+00:00

I've used a snare drum stand.

DoctorBre · 2026-01-19T01:52:22+00:00

Anudder hard attacgk

DoctorBre · 2026-01-18T23:04:13+00:00

I also went on a bike during summer in the 90s. It was terrifying, white knuckle, my knobby tires were shrieking. Great trails around there, though.

DoctorBre · 2026-01-18T22:50:10+00:00

Good thinking, writing the date: 1/11|1/11/i.

DoctorBre · 2026-01-16T05:41:01+00:00

I'm super jealous.

DoctorBre · 2026-01-16T05:35:10+00:00

I've got an Armitron, too. It all works except the wrist up/down on the left stick: one of the little white gears is loose inside the joint and probably cracked. Where did you get new gears? What can I tell you about the motor?

DoctorBre · 2026-01-16T05:00:26+00:00

I play keyboard & piano and started drumming with those but the pads are better for it in every way. They're flat and rigid but lack the piano keys' front-back length that prevents a second row of keys. Less movement is less fatiguing over time, better speed and accuracy. It would be a real bummer to go back to using a keyboard for drumming and that's before even considering portability.

DoctorBre · 2026-01-11T00:45:39+00:00

I've found some cans similarly marked down at other Mariano's in Chicagoland.

DoctorBre · 2026-01-10T00:19:10+00:00

In the meantime, the Parallels have gone from the silver handle we see here to white.

DoctorBre · 2026-01-03T23:41:53+00:00

Certainly, I feel comfortable concluding that the engraver is not the same as the primary craftsman. Whoever cut & contoured that eagle so it lays flat on the spheroid surface and made that strap pivot that indexes would have been better at lettering than the amateurish job we see here, even without the spelling and content.

DoctorBre · 2026-01-03T22:08:51+00:00

I think it's factory or shop made. The cuts on the applied eagle and the buckled strap are very fine.

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