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> question two is.. > > am I going to need to buy all of the vintage stuff he has to do it or > is there new stuff out that that can do it just as good > > and three.. > > what delay setting does he use? massive repeat? does he use it to > simulate a hardcore reverb? Ah.. this is so much to learn all at one.. Here's a quick and (in my universe) successful BUDGET recipe: * Run your guitar through a powerful and flexible multi-effects unit to add sustain, reverb and short delay. I use a Boss GT-3, currently available for about $200 used. RF uses a guitar synth. Nice, but several $1000s of dollars. * Use a volume pedal to generate swells. * Use multiple long delays to generate a shifting soundscape. RF usually explores the 12-to-18 second range. He's using four of those expensive I-forget-which-brand delays, and is going for something even more high-end soon. My budget approach is to use two Boss DD-20 digital delays (about $175 each) in very long delay mode, with feedback set at 1/2 to 3/4, to sometimes full. * Then choose your notes VERY carefully. Explore overlaying two moderately dissimilar scales (C major and Eb harmonic minor) or uncommon/restless scales (whole tone, Lydian dominant, or diminshed). * Fripp keeps his textures pretty consonant throughout - stringlike pads, the rare bell tone, quasi-choral voices. Once (or while) you nail Fripp's soundscape riffage, please, PLEASE find your own voice. You have one. After all you're Robert P, not F. Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large coyotelk@optonline.net "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where pimps and thieves run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." --- Hunter S. Thompson