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Re: Frisell - Digitech PDS-8000 Echo Plus



Bill Frissell is a phenomenally creative guitar player.  And he's been
integrating looping effects for a long time.

I remember seeing him with Joey Barron at Johnny D's in Somerville, MA 
about
10 years ago.  He was using a reverb and Digitech PDS-8000 Echo Plus as his
only effects (Here's a picture of  the PDS
http://homepages.luc.edu/~tgeerdi/dslpedals.html).    He mounts it in "arms
reach" or on an amp, because a key feature of the PDS's analog delay is you
can turn a knob that speeds up and slows down a delayed/looped segment in a
way that also changes the pitch.  Combined with his deft whammy-bar
technique, it's a pleasure to hear what he does.

With his somewhat "americana-jazz" band at the Montreal Jazz Fest July 
2002,
he was using the same pedal still.  Along with the DL-4 mentioned below.
God bless him.



----- Original Message -----
From: "ernesto schnack" <schnack@mailbolt.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: Frisell


> On Sun, 11 May 2003 20:35:16 -0700, Mark Hamburg
<mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>
> wrote:
> > pedal but also using a DL-4 to some extent. Reviving an age old debate
on
> > this list, I would classify his use of loops as more of an effect than
an
> > instrument or compositional tool. Their most prominent use in the show
> > were
> > as "funny sound" breaks.
>
> Yeah, he uses them more for ambience.  However, it is still amazing how
> agile he has become at it. Those sounds just pop out of nowhere. the 
>first
> time I heard him (Blues for LA) I had no idea what was going on. I 
>thought
> he was using some sort of whammy bar, but it sounded so weird...
>
> --
> ernesto schnack
> http://schnack.does.it
>