MEDFORD, OR — Guitarist Brian “Head” Welch was embarking on his first solo tour since leaving Korn in 2005. With the rigors of the road in mind, Welch’s keyboard player and programmer Brian Ruedy went in search of a rugged, compact onstage mixing solution, and found it with Ashly’s Audio LX-308B stereo mixer.
Ruedy said he chose the Ashly Audio mixer for two reasons. “There’s nothing like it on the market,” and “it’s made very well.”
Ruedy said his collection of Roland, Korg, Yamaha, and Kurzweil keyboards will not be the only equipment summed through the LX-308B, which supports eight stereo or 16 mono inputs via balanced quarter-inch TRS connectors on the rear of the 1RU unit. “We’re running software and hardware through it,” he said.
The keyboard player is joined by four other musicians behind Welch, who is touring over the coming months in support of his debut album, Save Me From Myself. Ruedy was looking forward to road-testing his new stereo mixer. “I love it. The product is really good, well made and solid,” he said. “It’s clean, it’s quiet and it’s responsive to everything that I need to do with it.”
Welch was also excited to be hitting the road. “I have no doubt that I’m doing what I was born to do — musically and spiritually. We can’t wait to get out there this summer and play tons of shows, from small clubs to huge arenas. It’s all good to me because I haven’t been on stage in over four years.”
Save Me From Myself made its debut on Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart at #13, on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums chart at #7 and at #21 on SoundScan’s Top Current Rock Albums chart.
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