Re: Unknown device for loop tweaking

["Collins" <collinsclan@sprintmail.com>]

I say Alvin Lucier is a Genius and he has done a lot of killer stuff that
not even Cage or Brown had thought of.
Keep up the experimenting.
Jeff Collins

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis W. Leas <dennis@mdbs.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Saturday, July 18, 1998 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Unknown device for loop tweaking


>I do something similar with an EDP, although you should be able to use any
delay unit.
>
>I set the EDP to delay mode (instead of loop mode) and turn the feedback 
>on
the EDP all the
>way down.  This makes the EDP function as a typical delay line.  Then I
wire it into my
>system like:
>
>                 ---------------------
>    mic >---+--->|in    EDP       out|-------+------> main out
>            ^    ---------------------       |
>            |                                |
>            |                                |
>            |    ---------------------       |
>            +----|out  SPX-90      in|<------+
>                 ---------------------
>
>The patches are all made through my Tascam 1024 mixer.  For example, I 
>have
the AUX 1 OUT
>sending to the EDP, EFF 1 OUT sending to the SPX-90, and bring the SPX-90
in a channel
>whose AUX 1 sends it back to the EDP.  Let me know if you need more
details.  I adjust the
>gain in the EDP/SPX-90 loop so that the signal remains constant; this is a
little tricky.
>Oh, some of the EDP output goes directly back to the input without passing
through the
>SPX-90; I guess this isn't shown on my cut-rate diagram above.
>
>Since the SPX-90 returns through a channel I can mess with the EQ.  I use
this set-up to
>simulate the piece "I Am Sitting In a Room", by Alvin Lucier
>
>http://www.lovely.com/titles/lucier01.html
>
>There are probably better ways of doing this.  I have a second EDP that I
want to
>incorporate into this set-up but I want to build a simple patch bay first.
>
>- Dennis Leas
>
>