Re: Boulder, CO folks (loop content too)

["Matt McCabe" <mattm@bi-tech.com>]

> From: Robert L Williams <zenchi@juno.com>

> If your collaborators are not improv based and you're working
> with "standard" song structures, how do you integrate loops?
> 
> Intros and Finales are the most natural places, but I'm interested
> in blurring the lines.

Although not a true loop per se, I'm been experimenting with setting up my
JamMan with a long delay time that corresponds to the tempo of the song
(normally 1 or 2 bars) with a feedback setting of 4 to 8 (depending on the
sound I'm shooting for).  Then I manually loop the guitar part (i.e. I
physically play it over and over) into the delay line.  This enables me to
play off of the delay and produce loop-like textures while following the
chord structure of the song.  The level of the delay line is set "behind"
the live guitar....so that the repeated figure adds atmosphere without
conflicting with the live (manually looped) guitar.

One advantage to this method is that if the tempo of the song shifts, you
are not locked into a fixed loop length that soon becomes out of sync with
the rest of the music.  It's easy enough to re-tap the tempo and keep going
without losing the "feel" or "texture" of the loop. 

Matt