Dual Loop Technique

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Greg had some nice ideas with the dual loop technique, especially for 
mixing
tempos.  It's a great system.  

I found a similar technique was also great for creating some wild stereo
panning.  In the 80s I was in a band called Delay Tactics.  A song from our
second album (Any Questions?) features what we called "Duel Delay 
Technique".
To set this up we synched two EH 16 second delays together.  Then we fed a
panable stereo line from the mixer to each unit - one received the left
channel, the other received the right.  The channel outputs the from each
unit, again left and right, were fed back to the mixer. 

As a result, once the delays were rolling, we were able to create panable
repeating stereo loop tracks.  For instance, using a 4 second delay while
recording a guitar track, the engineer could pan the guitar around the 
stereo
field at will.  The same panning movement would sweep across at every 4 
second
repeat.  With up to 100 layers for an entire song, the textures got pretty
interesting.  It was a nice alternative to the traditional bouncing or mono
drone delay techniques.

I'm enjoying everyone letters.  Keep up the great work!

Carl Weingarten