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Hi Per, It's a bit of both. From what he's said, there are some electronics that do the same job as standing in front of a very loud amp and controlling the feedback (like Fripp on "Heroes") that produces infinite sustain, as opposed to alternating magnets vibrating the strings, which is I think other devices get huge sustain. That potentially infinte sustain then gets looped. He also has the guitar wired with an IVL Pitchrider MIDI interface, so he's driving synths with it too. The Edge's intro to "With or Without You" is also infinite guitar. There are apparently only three of them in existence (Daniel Lanois has the other). Every interview, however, Brook is quite reticent about how the infinite guitar works at a nuts'n'bolts level, as he says he is in discussions with manufacturers about marketing it, although I'm not aware of that having come to anything. - Tony Per Boysen <per@boysen.se> wrote: >On 14 feb 2006, at 23.47, Tony Douglas wrote: >> Hope that lot was of interest. > >Very interesting! Thanks for relating that Soud On Sound article on >Michael Brook. I have had his album Hybrid since the release in 1985 >and I have always been wondering how he got those sound out of that >"infinite" guitar. So he was looping then... > >Greetings from Sweden > >Per Boysen >www.looproom.com (international) >www.boysen.se (Swedish) >---> iTunes Music Store (digital) >www.cdbaby.com/perboysen > > __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp