RE: The Big Bump issue.

["M. Steven Ginn" <sginn@airmail.net>]

Exactly!  When I first saw the suggestion of pre-recording blank loops I
begin thinking I have to set up a library of blank loops of different
lengths and tempos, in advance, so that I can get the right setting in
less than 5 secs it takes me to begin playing whatever it is that I feel
I should play .....  Live .... Real time.

Steve

> 
> I believe this is accomplished in the jamman using the delay 
> mode, right?
> 
> The reason why pre-recording the loop first is unworkable for 
> most people 
> is because you want the loop length defined by what you are 
> playing and not 
> the other way around. If you are improvising, you probably 
> don't really 
> know how long the loop will before you start, and it can be rather 
> difficult to play into a predefined loop length and get the 
> timing right. 
> You certainly don't want to sit there in front of your audience doing 
> nothing while you wait for this empty loop to record! and 
> this is not just 
> about ambient sound washes either, as Mark L mentioned. All types of 
> looping use this technique.
> 
> Being able to overdub immediately after recording is a 
> fundamental looping 
> technique that has basically been in existence since the 
> 60's. (or maybe 
> earlier, I'm sure somebody can correct me.)  Since the 
> early/mid 90's we've 
> been freed of having to preset loop lengths, with the arrival 
> of devices 
> like the Pardis Loop/Delay, the jamman, and the EDP where you 
> could tap the 
> loop lengths on the fly. Why should we be going backwards now?
> 
> kim
> 
> 
> 
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