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Hi Per, (and tEd) I usually bring 3 guitars to a gig plus my 'small' rig. One acoustic and two electrics (my Fender Strat) and a backup guitar just in case of a string break mid song. It is a good idea to try to get diverse sounds with one instrument and I try to do that with my electric and different pedal settings. I recently bought a behringer multi FX pedal for $50AUS. Which I can tweak and get some interesting sounds - tremolo, chorus, flanger, etc. For $50 its pretty good! Most of my sound revolves around delays - and different distortion settings. I have a boss turbo OD (set to a standard OD setting) and boss Heavy Metal pedal. I usually use that one with the OD to get crazy super distortion / sustain (ala Robert Fripp ca. 1973/74). For extra tone control I have a morley wah pedal which I usually leave ON and just adjust for different tones. Sometimes I do the standard wah thing - but usually its just for the tone. When I want to lay down a bass line I use my SUPER OCTAVE - I set it to POLY mode so it only effects the bottom two or three strings, and is a bit more stable. Then I move the wah toward the heel position and it gets a nice sort of rumble sound - more of a f*cked up bass / guitar sound than a proper bass sound. Gigging tomorrow nite - will play Freakout live for the first time! Rob McDade -----Original Message----- From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2007 6:33 PM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Re: Introducing myself :: Rob McDade (South Australia) On 6 mar 2007, at 04.15, McDade, Rob (SLSA) wrote: > Hi, > This is my first post to this email list and I thought I'd introduce > myself. Hi Rob, and welcome to this list. Interesting idea you have about building stands for your instruments. I know some musician friends that did that. If you have a stand for your acoustic you could simply swing over the electric at your back when approaching the acoustic. That would be fun to watch, being in the audience ;-) I too play many instruments, but I have more or less chosen not to bring them all at gigs - rather focusing on techniques to use one instruments for many musical roles. Like bringing a cello bow and a flute with an electric guitar or like using a pitch shifter to make a tenor sax sound a little differently on some occasions. My newest love is an EWI and for this instrument I have created multi layered and cross-faded sampler patches of my stratocaster played through a cranked tube amp top plus marshal cabinet, so I can play those sounds with this little clarinet-like thing of metal and plastics. Very portable and good sounding but not quite as cool looking on stage as the top and cab with the strat ;-) Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (latest music release)