GEAR REVIEW
LOOP COMMUNITY TRACK RIG | Mitch Bohannon
was good to go.
KEY FEATURES
A few years ago, I discovered the USB direct
• Easy interface between computer
and FOH
box that took a stereo audio signal from the
computer via USB into a direct box with two
• Power supply to phone
XLR outputs. This saved me from having to
• Extra USB ports for foot controller/
hard drive
• SUPER Simple to configure/setup
LOOPING HARDWARE SIMPLIFIED
use an interface (because I never trusted the
headphone out from my computer).
Rig were hitting Instagram, I had one of those,
“Why didn’t I think of that?” moments. See, Well, lo and behold, Loop Community solved
years ago, I would run tracks through Ableton all of the above problems and they even used
Live, into a Presonus firewire interface that some forward thinking! The TrackRig takes all
In leading worship, I’ve been running tracks had multiple outputs. I could assign different of the audio from Loop Community’s Prime App
for years. Years! I’ve written about Ableton instruments to different output channels. over a USB cable and separates it into eight
Live, Loop Community, In-Ear Monitors, Foot Then I had to run a 1/4” output from each channels that are assignable in Prime. The back
Controllers, and In-Ear Monitor Systems all with of the interface outputs into different direct of the rig has four USB inputs where you can
a central focus of running tracks for worship. boxes in order to get each needed track to plug in your Looptimus (or other) foot controller,
These days, though, what used to be really the soundboard. The more tracks I added, the your hard drives, and even charge your phone
incredibly difficult has become quite simple more direct boxes needed…that can be a pile or ipad! With this setup, the FOH engineer can
with new solutions like the Track Rig from Loop of direct boxes! For simplicity sake, I ended up actually mix the audio coming from each of the
Community. mostly running a mono signal out for my tracks song tracks as if they were being played live.
and a mono signal out for my click and cues.
I remember when the first images of the Track
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That only took a two-channel direct box and I
May 2019
Overall, I am really pleased with this product.
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