Re: new looping device :)

[David Myers <dmgraph@earthlink.net>]

Ah hah!  Looping device or Feedback device?  I've argued for years that 
they
are really the same animal....

As for "69"ing phones, sounds like you're something of a cunning linguist,
Dennis :) ....

> As part of a gig this weekend, all eight participants had digital cell
> phones.  (These were kindly provided by the local Cellular One office.)  
>I'd
> never played around with so many cell phones before and I discovered a
> property that other loopers might be interested in.
> 
> When I phoned other participants in the same room, I quickly noticed a
> significant delay when speaking on the phone.  I didn't measure it but it
> was probably 1/2 to 1 second in length.  So I took two phones and held 
>them
> in a "69" position :).  This created a feedback loop of about 1 to 2
> seconds.  I amplified the set-up with a tiny "tie-clip" style mic and 
>sent
> it to the PA.  You could whistle, speak, etc into the phones and 
>generate a
> decaying or sustaining signal, depending on how close together you held 
>the
> phones.  Quite awkward, but fun!
> 
> Dennis Leas
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