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Re: Looper's Essential Listening revisited:



Hi Tony,
wouldnt that device be a sustaniac that mounts on the
headstock? From what i understand The Edge also uses a
Fernandes sustainer.
cheers
Luis

--- Tony Douglas <TonyIsYourPal@netscape.net> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> 
>
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