Gig and Busking Trolley
Initial busking trolly set up.
Two guitar carry option needed
1st custom busking / gig trolly
2nd custom busking / gig trolly
3rd iteration busking / gig trolly
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Pedal Board
Realising you can’t rely on your PA mixer to craft your guitar ‘SOUND’ especially when you want to play venues and festivals with their own PA systems. Wanting a consistent 3 Guitar sound 'Acoustic', 'Electric' and 'Bass' from one guitar. Takamine Cooltube Piezo with an additional LR Baggs M1. Using an ABY pedal, Boss OC5, Sound Cake Tone Group, TCE HyperGravity Compressor, Fender Smoulder Acoustic OD, TCE Dark Matter distortion and the Boss VE-8 Acoustic Singer.
Mixing Desk
Amazon Flat Packed Cajon
Installing the second of the three bass drum pedals.
Cajon with all three pedals installed. The right pedal (left one as we are looking at it) is the bass, (Ginger can thank Daz Clement from the Bash and Strum partnership for a right bass pedal, as he's a leftie and Ginger got to know the drums through a leftie set up. The other two pedals, the front is the snare and the rear a cabasa.
Initial busking trolly set up.
Two guitar carry option needed
1st custom busking / gig trolly
2nd custom busking / gig trolly
3rd iteration busking / gig trolly
Analogue version of the soon to be digital version of the Live Jukebox
Venue full Cajon gig set up with analogue mixing desk.
Cajon set up with splash, crash and vibroslap
Major jump to Farmer Foot drum with 12 unique trigger sounds.
Alternative foot board needed to be elevated to work with foot drum
Foot drum and pedal board
Venue setup with foot drum
foot drum
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Guitars
Amazon Flat Packed Cajon
Installing the second of the three bass drum pedals.
Cajon with all three pedals installed. The right pedal (left one as we are looking at it) is the bass, (Ginger can thank Daz Clement from the Bash and Strum partnership for a right bass pedal, as he's a leftie and Ginger got to know the drums through a leftie set up. The other two pedals, the front is the snare and the rear a cabasa.
Initial busking trolly set up.
Two guitar carry option needed
1st custom busking / gig trolly
2nd custom busking / gig trolly
3rd iteration busking / gig trolly
Analogue version of the soon to be digital version of the Live Jukebox
Venue full Cajon gig set up with analogue mixing desk.
Cajon set up with splash, crash and vibroslap
Major jump to Farmer Foot drum with 12 unique trigger sounds.
Alternative foot board needed to be elevated to work with foot drum
Foot drum and pedal board
Venue setup with foot drum
foot drum
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Guitars
Amazon Flat Packed Cajon
Installing the second of the three bass drum pedals.
Cajon with all three pedals installed. The right pedal (left one as we are looking at it) is the bass, (Ginger can thank Daz Clement from the Bash and Strum partnership for a right bass pedal, as he's a leftie and Ginger got to know the drums through a leftie set up. The other two pedals, the front is the snare and the rear a cabasa.
Initial busking trolly set up.
Two guitar carry option needed
1st custom busking / gig trolly
2nd custom busking / gig trolly
3rd iteration busking / gig trolly
Analogue version of the soon to be digital version of the Live Jukebox
Venue full Cajon gig set up with analogue mixing desk.
Cajon set up with splash, crash and vibroslap
Major jump to Farmer Foot drum with 12 unique trigger sounds.
Alternative foot board needed to be elevated to work with foot drum
Foot drum and pedal board
Venue setup with foot drum
foot drum
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Instrument & Technical Journey
Cajon, Custom Cajon & the eventual Farmer Foot Drum
First iteration of playing with a Cajon. This was achieved by using a bass drum pedal nestled up against the cajon sound board.
But it could be so much more. Amazon delivery of a Flat Packed Cajon with the addition of three bas pedals and some engineering meant.......
internalising a lot of the moving parts to make it easier and more consistent to set up. Here the second of the three bass drum pedal is being mounted.
Cajon with all three pedals installed. The right pedal (left one as we are looking at it) is the bass, (Ginger can thank Daz Clement from the Bash and Strum partnership for the right bass pedal, as he's a leftie and Ginger got to know the drums through a leftie set up. The other two pedals, the front is the snare and the rear a cabasa.
Street set up of the Cajon and Hit (also used as a tablet stand).
Another example of the venue set up for the Cajon.
Cajon set up with the addition of a second hi-hat and attachment arm for both splash and crash cymbals and a vibroslap
Venue full Cajon gig set up. You can see the modified bass pedal (pedal no. 4) for the splash cymbal (next to the guitar). BUT the set-up was becoming unwieldily. So....
The is when the move was made to the Farmer 12 pedal Foot drum for venue gigs.
Venue setup with foot drum was tighter and had a small footprint.
The next challenge became moving and storing the foot drum safely . (The large box behind the chair is the first attempt at storage).
Gingers first foray as a solo performer included a crude setup with a Cajon (box drum) and bass pedal used to provide a basic rhythm. Keeping the performance 100% live with no looping was and still is his signature bare bones approach.
The use of the cajon became a regular thing and evolved with Ginger building a custom cajon with three bass drum pedals mounted inside the cajon. The first gave the bass drum sound, the second, from a small snare mounted inside was the snare sound and the third pedal controlled a cabasa. Ginger soon aded a hi-hat and then later a splash and crash, vibra-slap, tambourine and various shakers.
PA & Amps
Ginger Geoffrey - Vlog. Diary Entry August 1st 2026 – This week I document my experience so far with PA’s & Amplification. I explain about finding out about Headroom for Amplification. My discussion includes the Marshal Acoustic AS50D; The Roland / Boss Cube Street II; The QSC K10 and The Bose S1Pro.