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I agree with Michael and Marc. Have always been a huge fan of Pete Cosey's "almost falling apart" guitar sound. ;-) http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26242 I like the dist + filtering of an AKAI MFC42 for guitar. Very grainy! per On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:56 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> wrote: > Yes I use the Bitrman quite extensively... nasty little plastic box that >it > is, that needs to not be in your signal when not working... and not on >the > floor... and silly AC psu (hate alesis for that.. and the vortex.. and > digitech... actually alot of my pedals.. annoying..) And YES its that >ultra > grunged up till it falls apart. I LOVE the sound of ultra distortion >WHEN it > has a tad of reverb... completely wonderful. > > m > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote: >> >> I saw Eivind Aarset's group live yesterday ... he continues to amaze and >> inspire me like no other guitarist at the moment ... what a wonderful >gig! >> >> As usual he used Ableton Live, so did his drummer, effortlessly morphing >> from a free improvisation to a groove that suddenly contained >prerecorded >> sounds and melodies ... for his guitar playing, Aarset used a very wide >> range of sounds, from utterly tweaked and distorted to breathtakingly >> beautiful. I lo-res-photographed his setup after the show ... on the >table >> from left to right: a Moogerfooger, a ZVex effect - but which one? -, an >> Alesis BitRman, and a Boss Delay. On the floor the Line6 Looper and some >> more fuzz boxes ... don't recognize them, anyone? >> >> http://www.veloopity.de/temp/DSC00015.JPG >> http://www.veloopity.de/temp/DSC00018.JPG >> >> I wonder if it could have been his Alesis BitRMan that occasionally >> produced >> those intentionally completely distorted sounds (which I've also heard >> from >> NiN before I think) - as if some input was cranked up way beyond normal >> distortion, so much that the sound gets interrupted ... does anyone know >> what I mean and how this is done? >> >> Does any of the guitarists here use the Bitrman with interesting >results? >> all the online demos are done with techno rhythm machines ... >> >> One nice discovery for me on this evening was saxophone player Håkon >> Kornstad (http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=3u0tCpG5vPE) who played an >> extensive >> solo set before he played with the Aarset trio - he uses playing >> techniques >> that I have never heard before from a saxophone, and he loops with a >> repeater. Ever since the days of Terry Riley and Dickie Landry, I love >> saxophone loops! >> >> >> Michael >> www.michaelpeters.de >> > > > > -- > www.markfrancombe.com > http://vimeo.com/user825094 > http://uk.youtube.com/user/markfrancombe > http://www.myspace.com/markfrancombe > www.looop.no > -- Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) www.ubetoo.com/Artist.taf?_ArtistId=6550
