Greetings...

["ToddM" <ToddM@LaserMaster.Com>]

Hi folks:

Just wanted to announce my presence....I'm a 
guitarist/composer/multi-instrumentalist
residing in the Minneapolis area and into this kind of thing.  

I've been into loops and delays for quite a while now, used to credit 
myself 
as "DRONE guitars" on my self-released tapes for some things I must 
say...and why not?

I thought I was just weird, taking Allan Holdsworth's "volume pedal with
delayed guitar through multi-voice chorus" to its next logical conclusion.

Then I discovered Dave Torn's stuff and thought: "god, are other people 
doing
this sort of thing too?"  And then I found out that lots of others were 
doing it 
too.  

Musically I was treated as the crazy aunt under the cellar since I would
often do some godawful screaming legato solo and then sit and drone for 
minutes
driving drummers to distraction.  EOS, by Terje Rypdal and David Darling 
sort
of became a major obsession for a while.

I'm now using three bits to do looping, none of them are really designed as
"long delay loopers" like the Oberheim or JamMan, but they do the job:

o Lexicon Vortex (Yes, I know, only about two seconds of delay but added 
to the below.....)
o ART SGE (yes, I know, only 1.5 ms of delay, but added to the above....)
o Boss DD-3 (yes, I know, only 800ms of delay, but added to the above...)

I find that I can create a SWIRLING WHIRLIGIG FRENZY OF SOUND this way.

Anyway, the Vortex I bought recently for about $150 new and I found a neat
addendum to the owners manual that was sitting elsewhere in the music store
I bought it, so I grabbed it and it has all sorts of hints on using it as 
a looping
sampler among other things, it has several cascade loop effects which is 
quite
nice and in combination with tap tempo delays I like it quite a lot.

I intend on publishing that little manual addendum for loop-addicts soonly,
Lexicon willing (like they'd care, right?  Maybe so...I like their 
stuff...)

I'd like to get a JamMan (8 seconds of high-quality audio delay out of the 
box...nice)
or Oberheim (the first is in theoretical reach, the second a bit more 
expensive than 
I can justify at present, though I'd love it....)

Anyway....I'll sign off now.
Have fun and continue looping.

By the way, did I tell you that I store loops on VHS Hi-Fi videocassettes 
because
DATs are a bit steep for me?  It works, too.  You just need a decent VCR 
without the
typical compression most of them have (i.e. you get what you pay for, the 
better
ones are pretty crystalline sounding...)

--
Todd Madson
Associate Technical Specialist (ATS)
LaserMaster Big Color Technical Support
LaserMaster W3 Site: http://www.lasermaster.com/
Personal W3 Site: http://www.waste.org/~crash/
Personal mail address: crash@waste.org