I'm sure you get posts like this all the time! I just
subscribed to the list today and though I have been spending time
searching around the archives, I'm impatient enough to just come out and ask
my question.
I want to get started using looping devices in order to
channel the incessant music I hear in my head. I love what Andrew
Bird and Caryn Lin are doing with the violin, and Zoe Keating with the
cello.... I want to do something similar with harp. While they make
electroacoustic harps now, I am in no position to run out and buy
one.
So I will be using my acoustic semi-grand pedal harp,
though it's difficult to capture the harp's full range.
Was looking at a Line 6 DL4 delay pedal (used by Andrew Bird), and
briefly looked at the Akai Headrush pedal (though I think the sampling time is
too short for what I need). The equipment I currently have is a
Tascam Portastudio, a Peavey Ecoustic amp, and a few mics (at least one
condenser). Sad but true -- when you are playing weddings all the time,
you really don't have the need for anything else! I have asked around on
some harp sites about looping devices, but apparently no one has experience
with playing the harp in this way (oh the blasphemy...)
My goal is to create real-time loops for live performances
(eventually) and to work out ideas that I can take to a studio and
record. I'm in relative isolation here in the Midwest
given my interests and instrument, so perhaps erroneously have been thinking
that the only way to get where I want to go, I'll have to do it
myself.
Any advice to a bumbling beginner would be so much
appreciated.
Trista Hill
