looping tips and tricks 2001

[dan mcmullen <dog@well.com>]

anyone care to share their latest looping technique discoveries?  i'm
imagining quick little tips or tricks that make your looping easier or more
fun.  even "obvious" things that may have been mentioned before would be
good.  to get things rolling:

- when overdubbing, i recently put a volume pedal of some sort in front of
the looper to avoid the sharp little blips in background noise from turning
overdubbing on & off by fading in before & after the overdub.  this is
particularly useful when looping acoustic instruments using a microphone
while hearing the current loop on monitors.  (this probably falls into the
obvious category, but when i finally set this up, it made overdubbing much
more "relaxed".)  [general interest]

- i'm using the Peavy PC1600 fader box to control feedback on an EDP using
MIDI.  by making one fader the "master" of the feedback footpedal, i can
set the minimum feedback level that the footpedal can generate by lowering
the master fader.  this lets me use the entire range of the footpedal's
travel to smoothly make a transition from full feedback to the exact amount
i'm aiming for.  much easier than trying to judge what fraction of the
footpedal's travel will get me the right amount of feedback.  [edp/peavy
pc1600]

i may think of more later, but for now, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-...
dan
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