Re: Phenomenon

[Mike.Biffle@wj.com (Mike Biffle)]

     Yes we definitely look a little overprocessed to the average guitar 
     folk out there. I've found that for most, the manuals and endless 
     parameters overwhelm. No matter how overwhelmed they are though, 
     you're right... They're impressed!
     
     Just a reality check though. How many times have you spent an entire 
     evening tweaking dsp's or even just tone and distortion settings, 
only 
     to have a bad case of studio sweat n' jitters as well as ear fatigue, 
     and not really *played* anything? (Well, I did move my fingers! And 
     that counts! 8->) With a day job, sometimes it's really easy to be 
     lazy and actually just play your instrument!
     
     That said, I just spent an enjoyable evening (the night after the 
     ProjecKt2 show) tweaking an Infinite Reverb setting on my LXP15, 
     attaching an envelope follower to control the threshold to drop 
     slightly on louder notes and allow loop input. At the end of the 
     evening I was grooving to a new patch which requires no foot pedals 
     for input... Then send the loop off to Vortexland and we're really 
     swimmin'!
     
     Yours,
     -Miko

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Subject: Phenomenon
Author:  "Woehni" <hovard@online.no> at INTERNET
Date:    3/24/98 12:43 AM



  Hi ,

I have noticed a strange phenomenon that occurs after I have showed my
Jamman/Vortex setup to fellow guitarists:  They all LOVE it!!  They go: 
"WOW!
COOL
WHERE D`YA GET THAT?".  But the  strange thing is: none of them ever makes 
any
attempt to locate a looping device or check out the technology behind it.  
Its
like they see me
looping - think it`s cool- and classify me as an "experimental guitarist" -
forget about the
whole thing - and goes back to practicing double-stops and hammer-ons.


Are we doing something that most people finds as a nice , but scary and
dangerous
activity?

Yours , Thomas