Re: looping tips and tricks 2001

["whiteoakstudios" <whiteoakstudios@supanet.com>]

Another suggestion.
The way I work is I 'trap' a sound for as long as I want it to run by 
having
the feedback path set at unity. This is under the control of a footpedal.
When I want to let the loop die away I ease back on the pedal according to
how slowly I want the loop to die away, (I use this method to quieten the
loop if necessary too). What I've found is that introducing a gentle low
pass filter into this loop makes the dying loop sound more natural and
de-focusses it in terms of the listener's attention. An interesting effect
is to place a high pass filter in the feedback path so the sound kind of
fizzles out - good for spacey stuff : )

Gareth


> suggestion
>
> put a 1/4 sec fade on the start of your sample and a 1/4 fade out at the
> end - no more
> nasty clicks when u loop!
>
> concept7@earthspike.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: dan mcmullen <dog@well.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:09 PM
> Subject: looping tips and tricks 2001
>
>
> > anyone care to share their latest looping technique discoveries?  i'm
> > imagining quick little tips or tricks that make your looping easier or
> more
> > fun.  even "obvious" things that may have been mentioned before would 
>be
> > good.  to get things rolling:
> >
> > - when overdubbing, i recently put a volume pedal of some sort in front
of
> > the looper to avoid the sharp little blips in background noise from
> turning
> > overdubbing on & off by fading in before & after the overdub.  this is
> > particularly useful when looping acoustic instruments using a 
>microphone
> > while hearing the current loop on monitors.  (this probably falls into
the
> > obvious category, but when i finally set this up, it made overdubbing
much
> > more "relaxed".)  [general interest]
> >
> > - i'm using the Peavy PC1600 fader box to control feedback on an EDP
using
> > MIDI.  by making one fader the "master" of the feedback footpedal, i 
>can
> > set the minimum feedback level that the footpedal can generate by
lowering
> > the master fader.  this lets me use the entire range of the footpedal's
> > travel to smoothly make a transition from full feedback to the exact
> amount
> > i'm aiming for.  much easier than trying to judge what fraction of the
> > footpedal's travel will get me the right amount of feedback.  
>[edp/peavy
> > pc1600]
> >
> > i may think of more later, but for now, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-...
> > dan
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