[kittonian]

Alright, this one is truly stumping me. I had a great idea but in a real club environment it will prove to be a nightmare. So, here's what I'm looking at:

Mic = Beta87C (requires phantom power)
Vocal Processor (this needs to be on 100% of the show)
Vocal distortion effect (like The Killers gramaphone effect) - enabled only a small percentage of the time and needs to be able to be controlled via a footswitch at the front of the stage where the singer is standing

Now the band doesn't have a full time sound engineer on tour with them so the singer needs to have everything pretty much self-contained when he shows up for the gig. Basically being able to tell the sound guy, "here's where you plug in for the mic".

How on earth do you have this sort of setup without spending thousands of dollars? They've got the mic and they've got the vocal processor. They still need some sort of distortion box (or rack unit or whatever) to make the gramaphone effect happen, as well as the footswitch to bypass/enable it at the right portions of the show.

If possible they do not want to carry a green bullet and another amp with them.