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Thanks for all the suggestions regarding quad panpots, etc. Keep 'em coming! I settled on quad as a compromise between portability and ability to immerse the audience in sound. Currently, it takes me a long time to set-up, primarily due to the number of instruments I like to use. [Approximately 2 hours each time I move the stuff. One gig means 8 hours cumulative "overhead" time: 2 hours for studio to van (strike studio), 2 hours for van to gig space (set-up gig), 2 hours for gig back to van (strike gig), 2 hours for van back to studio (set-up studio). Perhaps I should seek professional help. :) Perhaps I should take up the piccolo. Perhaps I'm jealous of you guitarists with your "15 minute, one trip carries all, and I still whine about it" messages. ] So I'm not scared of a little more additional time, but I don't want to go overboard! :) Besides, if I'm used to quad, in a pinch I could probably make do with stereo. The more output channels I add, the increasingly harder this "downsizing" would be. I want to create music (for lack of a better term) that must be experienced live. Although you could record four channels, most people don't have the equipment. I'm thinking that I could convert a joystick (from Digi-key or Jameco) to produce 4 continuous controller midi data streams. These would feed a SwitchBlade unit and enable quad panning of a given input. With the proper tools (probably some programming on a laptop), I can share the quad panpot among different inputs. The laptop would permit animation of the panning as well. I'm thinking that a Peavey PC1600x would work well for controlling the laptop which would then control everything else. Dennis Leas ----------------------------- dennis@mdbs.com -----Original Message----- From: L Tremblay <ltct@concentric.net> To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 1:12 AM Subject: Re: quad looping >I had a Technics quadraphonic stereo system in the '70s. It was >great when stations broadcast in quad, but it difficult and expensive >to find quad records. :( > >- Larry > >-----Original Message----- >From: Javier Miranda V. <gnominus@earthling.net> >To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> >Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 12:15 AM >Subject: RE: quad looping > > >>A friend of mine told me of a quadraphonic radio station here in >California >>in the early Seventies, when quadraphonic records started to come out. >He >>told me they put together two different transmitters, each in stereo, of >>course, tuned to the same frequency, and your radio was supposed to mix >and >>match, and you could hear the whole thing in your living room. >> >>Come to think of it, wouldn't it be great that you could have a worldwide >>concert where the bands are playing somewhere and you could set yourself >up >>at home and listen in surround sound to the whole thing, as though you >were >>sitting there? It would also help if you had one of those 64-inch >>flat-screen digital TVs. What about doing that in a movie theater? >Movie >>theathers all over the world with live music from somewhere... OK, what >>about loopers playing the music? Wouldn't that be cool? >> >> | -----Original Message----- >> | From: Tim Nelson [mailto:tcn62@ici.net] >> | Sent: Monday 01 November 1999 6:12 PM >> | To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >> | Subject: Re: quad looping >> | >> | >> | At 09:50 AM 11/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >> | (What do you call a >> | >quad pan-pot, anyhow?) >> | >> | Back in 1969, The Pink Floyd were calling their surround-sound setup >the >> | Azimuth Co-Ordinator System, although theirs was hexaphonic rather >than >> | quad. (They had used a quad system as early as '67, at the >> | infamous Games >> | for May show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, but the rear speakers >> | were stolen >> | by the audience!) A joystick could send a sound source (which was >> | frequently tape loops, to bring this on-topic!) panning around the >hall. >> | The loop most often remembered (a wonder in itself) was the sound of >> | footsteps walking completely around the crowd. >> | >> | But if you called yours a quad pan pot, we'd know what you were >> | talking about! >> | >> | Tim >> | >> | >> >> >