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ebow, acoustic looping, tambouras, mixer setups, effects, raspberry smoothies (long)



As if anyone might be interested, i feel compelled to
briefly describe my recent experiments in all that
stuff in the subject line, and am addressing this to
this list since the eyes of everyone else to whom i
mention this quickly glaze over with that
'i'll-pretend-i'm-listening-,-but-really-,-how-would-pamela-anderson-look-running-down-the-beach-butt-nekid'
daydream kinda look.  not that i look like ms
anderson.

Be that as it may, i've got the ebow (mostly in
haronics mode) making my female north indian tamboura
sing after restringing her with the proper strings
(chyrogenic, no less), and tuning her up to G instead
of C where i had her.  I'm using a slide guitar slide
on it, and running it through the MPX-1 effects unit
for delay and reverb, then looping it in the EDP. Very
etherial, even 'wooden theremin', if you will,
sounding.  It does take a steady hand to keep the ebow
close enough to the string to excite it without
touching it.

I'm using a Countryman hypercardioid Isomax miniature
microphone (which seems to give moderately decent side
rejection of sound) which i mount to the instrument
(as well as to other instruments) with 'quake hold'
museum putty - mildly stickystuff used to hang posters
on walls without holes, or keep mum's china from
dancing to the ground during an earthquake.  Works
very nicely.  I run this through a RNC compressor via
a channel insert on the mackie 1202 vlz - this helps
*a lot* to keep the signal to the EDP relatively even,
since the ebow/tamboura/slide combo goes from 'is it
making any sound' to 'let's see if the neighborhood
dogs will sing along with *this*'.  Even better would
be a compressor that can address certain frequency
ranges, but the RNC works pretty well.  (both the RNC
and the Countryman mic have gotten good buzz over on
rec.audio.pro)

I have the EDP 'in' plugged into an aux-out on the
mixer, returning to a normal channel, and am using the
"effects to monitor" feature of the mackie, allowing
you to chain aux sends.  This means that 
i can loop accoustic input or any synth or sampler i
have comming into the mixer.  Of  any of these, I can
send the dry signal to the EDP, the mixed signal to
the EDP, or even just the wet signal to it (wet
meaning coming from the Lexicon MXP-1 effects
processor, and/or soon (hopefully tonight)through a
Nord micro modular.)  I can then send the output of
the EDP back through the effects units.  I can also
send the EDP output back into itself to reloop, which
makes for some interesting chorusing & timbre changes.
 How I wish the EDP was stereo so I didn't lose all
that subtlety of the effects when I loop - yes, i
know, but i'm not ready to buy another EDP quite yet.

I hope someone might have found this interesting.  Oh,
yes, raspberry smoothies are *definately* the best.

stephen



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