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Thanks ! cb mic = citizen's band radio microphone with an echo built in like the cabby's in NYC use. Teddy On Apr 22, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Scott Kellogg wrote: > Rockin' post. > > What do you mean by "cb mic"? > > Scott > > On Apr 22, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Teddy Kumpel wrote: > >> ok. >> >> I don't post here very much, but let me just say that I have >> learned a lot about the craft of looping here. Mucho respect to >> all the master loopers on the list. >> >> my band almost always just makes up songs on the fly and we hardly >> ever do anything in our set without the RC-50. >> I would say that the whole gig is based around that box... that >> being said, I don't want it to seem that way. >> I don't want the band to be about the technology. It's just part >> of what we do to make our music. >> >> I have a mixer with 2 different vocal mics (one is a cb mic with >> echo on it) and a toy keyboard plugged into the left side of the >> RC_50 and my guitar pedalboard output plugged into the right. The >> right side SUB output goes to a PA and the left side SUB output >> first goes into an on/off switch then into a gtr amp. This way >> it's like having 2 mono RC-50s in one box. I can freely mute the >> output of the vocal or gtr sides independently. After my >> pedalboard and before the RC-50 I have an A/B/Y switch. A goes to >> the RC-50 and B goes to my live gtr amp. With that swicth I can >> control what is going into the RC-50 from my gtr. >> >> I never listen to the guide track through the PA, only in >> headphones. The drummer and I both have headphones on (I have one >> ipod head phone and he has these cheapo panasonic ones that clip >> behind the ear, so he can hear the band and the guide track.) >> >> I have 2 blank patches, one for multi mode and one for single >> mode, ready to go. >> I sometimes hold the mic over his snare drum to get that in the loop. >> I use the reverse functions a lot. >> I have 2 FC-6 control pedals hooked up for extra buttons. I use >> "clear" "reverse" and program up and down >> I reprogrammed the undo switch on the RC-50 to be ALL start and stop. >> I have a master stereo volume pedal across the outputs of the RC-50. >> I do a lot of dub remix type activity using a line 6 verbzilla >> that I have after the mixer side, before the PA. >> >> we mainly improvise funny, funky gtr trio music. Sometimes I sing >> a song. >> >> that's about it. if you're in NYC, come see us. We play at >> nightingale Lounge on 2nd and 13th every Thursday. >> >> Teddy