He’s doing stuff where he triggers little clips as he plays, so that we don’t need another guitar player and so that it’s his own playing accompanying him. “He needed to hear the backing guitar tracks, over which he plays live, within his guitar rig. They turned out to be the total answer for his situation,” Tuggle explains. “I turned Lindsey on to the K.2 Series a couple of weeks ago at rehearsal. This led to Buckingham himself discovering the joys of QSC. With the K10.2s, it is like taking a blanket off the sound.” I don’t want to diss anyone or name names here, but I recently tried out another very popular brand of powered monitor at Lindsey’s studio, and it was mushy by comparison - like there was fur covering the sound. I also love the routing flexibility on the K.2s and the ability to save and recall scenes for things like EQ and crossover points right on the little display that’s on the back. I put my Korg Kronos 88LS keyboard and a Roland VG-99 guitar synth through them. “The K.2 Series just take the sound to the next level, with even more headroom. “It was, like, wow, this is perfect,” Tuggle says. The I/O complement includes two XLR-1/4-inch combo jacks (one mic/line, the other mic/Hi-Z), each with its own pre-gain XLR through-out for connection to the house P.A a 3.5 mm stereo mini input and post-gain XLR mix output. They were very clean, had enough headroom, and with the multiple inputs, you didn’t need a mixer if you just wanted to plug in a keyboard or two and play.”įor this latest Lindsey Buckingham tour, Tuggle chose a pair of K10.2 loudspeakers, which carefully match a 10-inch woofer and 1.4-inch titanium compression driver with the aforementioned 2000-watt Class-D amplifier module, all in a package of 32 pounds (14.5 kg) per unit. These were the original K10, which were a thousand watts as compared to the two thousand on the K.2 Series. “They just sounded right to me, better than anything else I had heard. “I tried several brands - all the usual suspects - then at one of the NAMM shows I stopped by the QSC booth, and I was really impressed,” Tuggle continues. We don’t want to color it, or if we do, we use the onboard effects in our instruments for that. We keyboard players want to hear our stuff back pretty real. “Synths can produce a big bottom, and I wanted the midrange to be clear and the treble to have some sparkle,” he adds. “I really wanted to find the right speaker to reproduce all the frequencies keyboards are capable of. “I first became aware of QSC quite a few years back, when the powered speaker craze was beginning to get big,” Tuggle recalls. For an upcoming tour with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, both he and Buckingham go with K10.2 powered loudspeakers from QSC. Since the early ’90s, Tuggle has also held down the keyboard chair with Fleetwood Mac as well as its members’ many solo projects. The Los Angeles-based keyboardist and guitarist toured with Rick Springfield and David Lee Roth in the 1980s, co-writing Roth’s 1988 hit “Just Like Paradise.” He has also played with Jimmy Page, Steve Lukather of Toto, and David Coverdale of Whitesnake. Brett Tuggle has been a student of the piano since age six.
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