Re: Question of the Week -- when do you NOT loop?

["David Potter" <papadave55@hotmail.com>]

Lee, if you get that bagpipe sound I'd love to get the settings.
               papadave55@hotmail.com


>From: Phaedebk@aol.com
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>Subject: Re: Question of the Week -- when do you NOT loop?
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 12:36:16 EDT
>
>     Have to say that it is also a matter of what you are trying to 
>accomplish
>when you are looping, too!  Personally, I like to generate lots of drones 
>and
>use those as backgrounds rather than a specific phrase...  Just wish that 
>the
>Boomerang had a fade out feature to it...  Shouldn't be more than an added
>pair of roller pots and a button, but then again, I'd prefer it if it ran 
>in
>stereo.
>
>     Back to the question, I won't loop solos that are taking place over
>backgrounds.  As for time constraints with ensembles and playing with 
>other
>people, it is unfortunately a matter of trying to keep up with them in the
>directions they are wanting to go.
>     Also, I don't like to loop miked instruments, had some majour 
>problems
>with feedback, though I am finding that certain piezo pickups out there 
>are 
>a
>MUCH better solution...  Just have to find out if RMC is going to go the
>direction or not...
>
>     Back to the fun of getting a GR-30 to sound like a pair of Bag Pipes.
>
>     Tchus,
>
>         Lee-ohki.
>
>

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