Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:35 AM
Subject: RE: Acoustic questions and
"Hello!"
Welcome Matthew,
I think your budget is an obstacle for what you are trying to
accomplish. Hopefully you already have the guitar pickup (and as for the
slap in the hole kind, if you can tolerate the tone it produces normally, it
will be fine, if you don't like it, then just picture having to hear multiples
of it. Personally I've never heard one other than the Sunrise, which is
quite expensive, that I could tolerate for any length of time).
An
RC-20 will work fine with an acoustic, depending on what features you need to
have. If you want features like progressive undo and multiply, I'm
pretty sure you are going to have to spend more money (check the owners
manual/or loopers delight page on-line for the features). If you want to
run guitar and vocals though a looper you are going to need a mixer in front
of the looper, and with your budget I'm not sure you are going to be able to
afford one that has the capabilities to also route out to a PA as well with
some clever signal chain management.....so you may have to hold off on that
idea and just run your guitar through the looper, buy the cheapest 4 channel
mixer you can find and output it into the cheapest PA you can find (a guitar
amp will not produce satisfactory results with the guitar and 2 vocals).
Given your price limitations, you may need to cut
corners everywhere. I believe the Akai Headrush is the cheapest looper
on the market <$200, you may want to see if this could possibly fit your
needs though the RC-20 has longer record times and loop storage
capabilities.
I
think you are probably going to have to invest more than $400, if all you have
right now is a guitar without a pickup. Especially if you intend to use
this rig in a public place. If you are going to use this for practice
purposes and then have access to a PA at a gig, then you might want to hold
off on the PA and get a mixer with 2 headphone outs, and use that to practice
until you can afford to really buy some decent equipment. Just throwing
out ideas here.
And
for a K-Dub (Keller Williams) fix, if you are not aware of it you need to
check out this site: www.archive.org/audio then
go to the live music archive part, there you will find over 100 K-Dub shows in
lossless compression for FREE. I also recommend checking out Brock
Butler on the site as well, he also uses a looping device (start out with the
SBD source show).
Hope
this helps.
Brian
-----Original
Message-----
From: Harmony & Matthew
[mailto:mattshead@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 6:40
PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject:
Acoustic questions and "Hello!"
Hello,
My name is Matthew, I have been playing guitar for 15 years, last
10 mostly acoustic, and i recently got into Keller Williams...AND, i am
fired up and dying to set up a simple rig..something i can afford...i can
see in former posts that the echoplex and other high end peices work
nicely...
well, here is my idea...i want to mic the guitar...(acoustic
pickup?)...have it run through the "looper"..and a mic for my wife and
i to sing...(if it could run through the looper, great, but i realize with
my budget!?!)...and then have a speaker system...(amp, or small PA set
up...) all for not much money...100 dollars...HAHAHA, ok, no, may 300,
i know, ah, 400 with it all ready to go?!? i hear that you dont need a
guitar amp with the acoustic...or even shouldnt...but i want a system to
take the mic too...the singing mic that is...
if i buy...say a Boss RC 20...will that work well with an acoustic...i
am in the dark here...i dont know what is out there lately...and for my
price range...i know, please stop laughing;) at the very least i would
like to know if a regular "slap in the soundhole" pick up in my blueridge
will be ok with something cheap as a RC 20...or would it be a waste of
money?
thank you
matthew
Harmony
and Matthew
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