Re: Belewps

[John Tidwell <wedgehed@yahoo.com>]

FYI

I seem to recall reading that the Johnson amps have a
built in Digitech 2112. What Mr. Belew describes is
just scratching the surface.

ALSO

The news at Harmony Central says that T.C. Electronics
is coming out with a new delay box. No price was
given. The brief description reminded me of the Korg
DL-8000.

Good day all!

John





--- Future Perfect <artmusic@gte.net> wrote:
> This is a section cut & pasted from  recent Adrian
> Belew interview at
> http://www.virtualguitarmagazine.com/
> (actually, the whole interview is packed with gear
> stuff)
> 
> Ok, here it is...the questions are obviously the
> interviewer's...
> 
> *****
> And you call your loops Belewps?
> 
> Well, they are different.  That's a funny little
> name we just jokingly have
> for them.  It's sort of like Frippertronics or
> something.  You know, I think
> it's funny.  The difference with Belewps is that you
> can make chord changes
> and you can change the loop as you go.  With any
> other loop that I know,
> they're not interactive, they're static.  You start
> the loop and it stays
> that way.  The real huge discovery for me with this
> looping thing that I'm
> doing is that I can cause it to change.
> 
> How, exactly, are you using the Johnson [amp] to do
> this?
> 
> Inside the Johnson amp I'm using one delay that's
> two seconds long.  You
> have to change the length of the delay for the tempo
> that you want.  The
> tempo I like a lot ends up being 1.84 instead of two
> full seconds.  Then I
> have one of the parameter pedals (expression pedals)
> set so that when I put
> it down, it puts the last thing that I played into a
> hold pattern and flips
> it to the outside speakers.  So the guitar is coming
> from the middle – what
> I'm actually playing – and the loop is coming from
> the outside.  You have to
> turn the volume of the effect up, you have to put it
> into the hold pattern,
> but it's all linked to this one expression pedal. 
> So with one foot
> movement, boom, you've got a loop.*******
> Interesting stuff..
> Dave Eichenberger- guitars.loops.devices
> http://home1.gte.net/artmusic/dave
> 
> 'Future Perfect' - art music
> http://home1.gte.net/artmusic/
> 
> 


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John Tidwell



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