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Re: Apple iTunes link for Krispen Hartung: Fragments / short-form-loopingwith Danelectro Wasabi Delay



Certainly!  Thank you for sending me a free copy!  Ha!

A couple questions:  Are all your effects on that track VST, or are you using some hardware as well?  Was all the looping done in Mobius?

I just got a Digitech EX-7 (on the clearance rack at Guitar Center!) a couple weeks ago, and it has (among other things) a model of the XP300 Space Station (that I love) and one of the best sounding Wah-Wahs I've ever heard.  I've been having a blast combining those sounds with some tremolo, phase, and delays attempting to get at some of the sounds you made on that track.  Tons of fun!

On the subject of guitar pedals, I also just got the Danelectro Wasabi Forward/Reverse delay.  I have to admit that I don't like a couple of the functions as much as I thought I would (the tap tempo is a bit glitchy when trying to fine-tune while playing and the switch on the back to attenuate the pedal for use with Humbucking pickups seems to only make the output quieter), but I did find one function to be a pleasant surprise:  Unlike my other delay pedals, when you set the pedal to infinite delay and use the speed knob to manually change the loop length, it doesn't pitch shift.  That was actually disappointing to me until I realized that it also doesn't lose your recorded content when you shorten the delay time, so you can go back to your original length, and if you overshoot it, it just adds silence to the end.  Maybe there are tons of delays out there like this, but I'd never used one, so it was revelation to me.

It's a blast to play around with!  I was demoing it for one of my guitar students and started by looping a 3 second drone (the max delay time),  and layering some rhythmic harmonics.  Then I hit the reverse button, which flipped the whole loop backward, and layered some other rhytmic stuff.  I then slammed the speed knob to 0 to make it stutter, and then slowly pulled it back to the original loop time.

Of course, it doesn't really work as a looper, but it was cool enough to make my student's eyes pop!

--Josh


Krispen Hartung wrote:
Thanks you, Josh. That is very kind of you. :) Nebula is one of my favorites too....it does make me feel as if I were in a spaceship, traveling through galaxies, etc and observing astrophysical phenomena.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Carroll" <josh@infinivert.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: Apple iTunes link for Krispen Hartung: Fragments


I'd just like to go ahead and throw out my recommendation for this album. Nebula, in particular, has been in fairly heavy rotation on my iPod lately and has inspired some tricks I've been throwing into my electric playing. Very spacey!

Per's new album is also excellent.  It inspires such creativity, that I've made it my workday soundtrack.

Get them both!

--Josh


Per Boysen wrote:
On 18 feb 2007, at 04.23, Krispen Hartung wrote:

FYI...for those who use iTunes, here's the link to my new CD "Fragments". For some reason, you can buy only a few songs individually, or the whole CD digitally. Not sure why they do that!


That happened to me as well on an album release at iTMS. I think it is when a piece is longer than ten minutes. Greedy Apple might think that would give you too much for too little money ;-)

BTW, what iTMS aggregator service did you go through? I've been using CD Baby in the past and am looking into AWAL now.


THE Apple iTunes LINK:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=215298981

Previews sound interesting. That ambience and alien scales... scary stuff :-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)
http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (latest music release)