How to buy these boxes you stand up on stage ?

[nico007p]

Hey,
Can't manage to find any website that sells them and can't find out what they're called.
I don't even know if there is a section in this forum about this kind of issue ...
Anyway thanks

 

[egan.]

Can you be more specific? Are you talking about roadcases? Dummy cabs? Real cabs? Risers?

 

[nico007p]

No, no. It's just a wooden box you put on the front of the stage for musicians to stand on.
I found this video in which attila uses 3 of them if it helps :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUniay4f170

 

[ArthurD]

DIY?

 

[egan.]

It's either a riser or the monitor. You can buy premade risers but if you build them it's a lot cheaper. If I'm honest unless you have roadies you probably don't need or want that sort of extra stuff to carry around.

 

[nico007p]

yeah I was actually considering that before asking

 

[nico007p]

ok thanks for the quick answer !

 

[JeffTD]

If I'm honest unless you have roadies you probably don't need or want that sort of extra stuff to carry around.

The other issue is that unless you're big enough to warrant having roadies to carry the risers then you're kind of a twat for using them in the first place.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

The other issue is that unless you're big enough to warrant having roadies to carry the risers then you're kind of a twat for using them in the first place.

I've seen them house some stage lighting in venues before though. I always scratched my head when bar bands wanted to lug in that extra crap though.

 

[brianhood]

I"ve always heard them referred to as "ego boxes". Every band I've ever seen use them has made them from scratch.

 

[Terminus]

Just go nuts and make a giant runway that goes all around the band, then run around like Bruce Dickinson doing laps.

 

[abaga129]

Stage Boxes is what they're called around here. The guys in my band made some really cool ones with a Plexiglas top and a light that comes on when you put pressure on it.

 

[greyskull]

You can use the flight case you've take your amp out of

 

[schwinginbatman]

I know a band around here that made some of their own, they flash lights and stuff. It's cool, I suppose. I myself just prefer putting my foot up on the monitor, or going up onto the drum riser if it is available.

 

[xTomx]

The other issue is that unless you're big enough to warrant having roadies to carry the risers then you're kind of a twat for using them in the first place.

These things are an dead giveaway for pricks, regardless of status.

 

[BLUElightCory]

Most bands I know just make their own.

 

[Sloan]

A lot of bands that play the venue I work bring aluminum risers built pretty much like their drum risers with removable legs, but obviously much smaller. We call them EGO RISERS. Falling In Reverse cracked me up because the whole front of the stage was lined with ego risers.

Having removable legs is very beneficial to the pack.

I think in the staging industry these would be usually called 'stage risers'. Time for some googlin'!!!

 

[MatrixClaw]

I"ve always heard them referred to as "ego boxes". Every band I've ever seen use them has made them from scratch.

Yep, ego boxes or stage boxes, here.

I see bands all the time using them, usually the singer brings it as part of his/her "gear." There's a kid locally that makes them with lighting inside them, make me lulz when I see these crappy bands on stage using them... in fact, last week I went to a show where the "headlining" band used them and it made him so tall that he hit his head several times on the ceiling. T'was quite entertaining, especially since he's a super douche and his band sucks

 

[tgs]

 

[egan.]

I'm used to seeing ego ramps but I've only ever seen risers for bands where the second row of guys are on risers so the audience can see them. I literally don't understand why you need to bring your own personal stage to stand on on a stage. What are you a conductor?