Re: RE:Fernandes guy at NAMM

["Randy Jones" <ranjones@texas.net>]

Uh Kim,

Loop textures?  That ain't ambient now is it?

Randy Jones


-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Flint <kflint@chromatic.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Monday, February 02, 1998 9:00 PM
Subject: RE: RE:Fernandes guy at NAMM


>At 05:56 PM 2/2/98 -0600, Ott, John wrote:
>
>> What do you sustainer owners think of the pickup
>> sound on sustainer equipped guitars?
>>
>>   So far reports I have heard say the sound is degraded.
>
>I think they sound like crap for anything other than the sustainer. I see
my
>fernandes as a one trick pony, which I mostly only use with lots of
>distortion and processing. Come to think of it, I can't even remember
having
>it out of the case in the last year.....
>
>They are killer for loop textures, though. You absolutely have to have a
>whammy and some real time effects and filter control to make it
interesting.
>Turns a guitar into more of an oscillator (as in an analog synth), with an
>interesting waveform that has lots of possiblities for sonic manipulation.
>
>Lots of overdubs of one note with ever so slight whammy tweaking, for 
>those
>completely evil dissonances.... YES!
>
>kim
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