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I used to use one of those old Digitech RDS 1900 delays, 1900 ms of delay time, not long enough to do too much, but fun just the same. it had modulation controls for messing with the oscillation of the line you made. I also messed with the internals and did crank it up to about 8 seconds, but the resolution got very dodgy(BTW, anyone have an idea on how to fix that?), but now, I have it back at it's original setting. --- Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com> wrote: > I have two Effectrons that I still love and use. > Very funky little > boxes. I did sample and hold stuff in the early > eighties with it too. > Nothing quite as cool as IT DOESN"T MEAN etc... but > they're great > boxes, easy to use and easy to get some really wack > sound out of. > > richard sales > glassWing farm and studio > vancouver island, b.c. > 800.545.6846 > 250.752.4816 > www.glassWing.com > www.richardsales.com > www.hayleysales.com > www.blueberryfieldsfarm.com > On 8-Feb-07, at 4:29 PM, RICK WALKER wrote: > > > A new friend of mine on MyPace, Aun , a talented > electronic musician > > and looper from Montreal > > just told me that he just picked up two old Delta > Lab 1024 Digital > > Delays which were the first > > affordable digital delay that had an infinite > delay/loop capability > > (at a whopping 1.024 seconds of delay time). > > > > His mentioning this just made a flood of memories > come back to me of a > > concert I did with > > Michael Haummesser, Jim Rutledge, my self (aka TAO > ELECTRICAL), Bob > > Beede and Richard Zvonar. > > > > I wrote him back this letter about it: > > > > > > ******************************************** > > Wow, what a blast from the past, Aun, > > > > I use a Delta Lab 1024 digital delay to do the > first > > ever looping show I did back in 1982. > > > > With it's very short infinite loop and ability to > speed or slow down > > the delay time, I recorded a > > vocal passage which said, > > "It doesn't mean a fucking thing" > > > > I then sped it up so that it was so fast that you > just hear a rapid > > rhythm without any intelligibility and used it as > the 'groove' for a > > piece of musical improvisation. > > > > I did all of the recording at the sound check so > the audience couldn't > > hear what made up my groove. > > > > We played the improv and at the very end of the > piece I slowed the > > loop down very, very gradually until at the last > minute as it started > > to have intelligibility, I slowed it down to > normal speed, let the > > sentence have > > full effect and then ...............lights out. > > > > Your mentioning of these wonderful delays just > took me back to that > > performance which I had completely forgotten. > Later in the show we > > each (three of us, a bassist, guitarist and > drummer) made long tape > > loops on three old tube echoplexes that had the > erase heads removed > > and one by one left the stage leaving the long > loops to play out of > > sync with each other for the intermission of the > concert. > > > > > > The impetus for the Delta Lab piece was taken from > an amusing anecdote > > that I heard about Allen Ginsberg who climbed all > the way up to the > > top of a Himalayan mountain to find a famous > ascetic buddhist priest > > who lived in a cave away from all human kind so > that he could ask him > > what the meaning of existence and life was. > > > > After a long arduous journey up the snow covered > mountain, he found > > the cave, entered, saw the old > > priest there and asked him, "What the meaning of > life". > > > > The old codger then replied in a perfect Oxford > English accent "It > > doesn't mean a fucking thing." > > > > Ginsberg turned, walked out of the cave and down > the > > > mountain...............enlightened..............lol > > > > Later, let me know how much fun you have with > those puppies. > > > > yours, Rick > > > > **************************************** > > I should also mention that the equipment that I > used that night > > belonged to Michael Haummesser (aka Not > Noise---look > > up this brilliant musician on the web, you'll > thank me for the > > recommendation). > > I couldn't afford it in the day but sure was fun > to use it. Michael > > turned me on to that whole world..............tape > loops, digital > > loops, prepared guitars, etc. Sometimes I feel > like I am doing > > things that he was doing 25 years ago in my > current work. > > He's been a huge influence on me. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265