RE: New looping video posted; fretless guitar

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Per wrote:
"Myself I have chosen a different solution; to not add effects to
tracks. Instead I add effects PRE looping and create loops where
different effect treatments are recorded with the source sound."

I so agree with you Per.

What strikes me is that , when composing, we decide to add a violin,
guitar, trumpet  or  dijeridu to an arrangement,   we choose that 
particular instrument
precisely  because of it's timbre, range and capability.

The digital world affords us as much differentiation between different  
'patches' of processing  as the acoustic
world used to in the pre-digital/analogue/electric era.

This means that if I run a bowed banjo through the Line 6 M-9 pedal using a
''Particle Verb"  patch,  the difference between the resultant sound 
compared to the
dryly originally recorded banjo is as a different as a grand piano and a 
flute.

Arrangement in classical music has always been about timbre (and rhythm, 
melody, harmony and dynamics, of course).  
A composer will take a piece of music and orchestrate it for a small 
chamber ensemble and make the exact same piece vastly different
orchestrating it for an entire symphony orchestra (or, hell,  an entire 
percussion only percussion ensemble
as Steve Reich will do).

This is the miracle of the modern digital composing 
environment.................the sky is the limit.

If you choose any instrument and apply a radically timbre changing DSP 
process to it,  you have completely
changed the nature of the instrument.

The banjo has a very sharp attack and not a lot of sustain.
Bow it and it suddenly resonates like a motherf*cer.
Put it through a quiet but very long reverb and you have to compose 
completely differently than
you did the original instrument.

I'm a huge fan of using 'what is'  when making a composition.

The instrument (and the DSP processing)  has limitations.

Getting creative with what the timbre and the envelope of the sound 
gives to you will create vastly different results.

and, speaking of the devil,  nice fretless piece you posted.

appreciatively,  

Rick Walker