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Re: Advice sought - unbroken, seamless loops

This type of thing is possible with less expensive units.  Turn on
"record" - play a chord, *then* swell the volume up on your guitar...  add
other notes or chords (again swelling the volume) and then turn off record.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mark sottilaro" <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: Advice sought - unbroken, seamless loops


> The EDP and the Looperlative are excellent for use in
> Kevin's email.  The Repeater, not as much.  I don't
> have an issue with it but there's a tiny split second
> bump in volume at the start of the loop.  Not a click
> but it can be noticable.  I guess it's the price for
> all the DSP crazyness that the Repeater does.
>
> I don't know about the Line6 DL-4, but in stompboxes
> the Boss Giga Delay will also make seamless loops and
> is damn cheap.
>
> Mark
>
> --- johnsrude@peak.org wrote:
>
> > > In essence, I'm trying to find a device that will
> > loop a chord
> > > seamlessly - i.e. will eliminate the "click" sound
> > one normally hears
> > > when one uses most digital delay pedals such as
> > the Boss DD-3 to loop a
> > > chord.
> >
> > If you have a looper that allows you to have an
> > arbitrarily small loop and
> > allows you to overdub this is pretty easy to do with
> > a volume pedal going into
> > the looper.
> >
> > For example with the Echoplex Digital Pro:
> >
> > With your volume pedal all the way off, tap Record
> > button twice.  Now you have
> > a very small loop.
> >
> > Tap Overdub.  Play the chord, still with the volume
> > pedal all the way off. Now
> > gradually fade up the volume pedal. With practice
> > you'll get a nice even drone
> > chord. Tap Overdub off when you've got the chord the
> > way you want it.
> >
> > The fun part of this technique is that you can
> > continue to fade in notes and
> > get chord tones that would normally be impossible to
> > play on guitar.  I like
> > adding harmonics, myself.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> > www.TheNettles.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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