Racks

[Axl_Rose]

What the hell are racks?!?!?

[Raskolnikov]

Metal... er... racks. Used to store rack-mount equipment.

For instance, my bass head, wireless, and a power conditioner are all mounted in a four space SKB rack. It makes it easier to move a lot of things at once while keeping them protected.

[trendkillah]

Originally posted by Axl_Rose
What the hell are racks?!?!?

The simple way of explaining this is that you can have 19" wide rack-mount units in stead of all those little pedals on the floor. Hell, you can even have a rackmount pre-amp and power-amp, anything goes really.

Here's an example: http://www.johnpetrucci.com/images/equipment/rack_2002.jpg

[canuck7]

it can be one of two things in my experience. it can be the physical housing of your amp head, power conditioner, etc...but there are also effects racks. i don't like racks. with them people can just dial something in and make all these super-polished effects. i think it takes the human touch out of the guitar playing. i really just like pedalboards, those are great to have. but all the massive fx racks turn people into annoying 'rack and rollers'.
so yeah.

[aiwass]

Originally posted by Axl_Rose
What the hell are racks?!?!?

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[canuck7]

hey aiwass,
that was a good one!