One EDP for two players

[Fabio Katz <fabiok@home.com>]

Hi loopers,

Yesterday was my first gig with Alvaro, a percussionist with a unique
and eclectic kit.  I play Stick and use loops extensively.  Alvaro
didn't have any problems following the loop instead of being followed by
the rest of the band (myself).  Even when a loop was not completely
consistent (tempo changes slightly during the loop, or I screwed up and
finished the loop not exactly on the beat), Alvaro had no problems
adjusting.

He aldo wanted to try looping himself.  So we set up a microphone over
his kit and at the beginning of an improvised piece I waited until his
basic rythm was very clear to me and recorded a loop.  After that he was
free to do more creative percussion along and against the looped rythm,
and I had fun layering stuff and improvising on top.  The audience
seemed to anjoy it too, and some people told me after the show that they
didn't expect the percussion to be looped as well.

Have others tried looping other players with your looping device?  We
have only one EDP (mine).  I would like to hear ideas on how to setup
and control everything in order to selectively loop one, the other or
both players using only one looping device.  Yesterday we did the
simplest thing:  I manually turned down the send to the looper for his
mike after we were done recording his rythm loop.  After that it was
only me adding layers.  It would be useful to be able to have more
real-time control.

Any ideas?

Fabio
http://www.geocities.com/fabiokatz