Re: String gauge (what are you looping with this winter?)

[Mark <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Haha!  OK, you caught me off guard.  My sense of humor has been pretty
stretched these days... with what's going on in the world, and the fact
that I had an unusually difficult vasectomy recently causing me spend a
*lot* of time sitting on ice. (I'm mostly OK now, no need to worry.  I
gave myself a nice present to make loops with while I recovered!)

That being said, I use Steinberger .10s made for the TransTrem system. 
Nice.

Now that we know most of us generally are unhappy with the polititions,
let's get back to more talk of looping!  My wife got me the new KAOSS
Pad II for christmas and it has really nice looping possibilities!  Two
sample memories and the ability to trigger them while in other effect
patches so the effects can be applied to the loops.  Put that in the fx
loop of your Repeater and it's a helluva time!  It's going for $299 US,
but she got it for $260 at the Guitar Center.

Mark Sottilaro


Sean Echevarria wrote:
> 
> No, no, no - you took me seriously.  I would have expected you to take 
>me to task for posting such an inane question.
> 
> Note that I asked about loop music as if it was a genre like nu-metal.
> Note that I brought up guitar strings, a topic that is generally 
>maligned on this list, the prototypical bad topic - almost moreso than 
>political diatribes.
> 
> :)
> 
> At 07:37 PM 2003/01/03 -0800, Mark wrote:
> >!?  Why?  Have I shown an alliance to a gauge of string or any other
> >piece of gear in the past?  Work with what you know/have/like and make
> >nice music.  Sure, I have opinions, but to suggest there is a brand and
> >gauge of strings that works better is silly.
> >
> >Mark Sottilaro
> >
> >Sean Echevarria wrote:
> >>
> >> Mark dude!  I was expecting something a little different from you...
> >>
> >> At 02:35 PM 2003/01/03 -0700, sine@zerocrossing.net wrote:
> >> >String gauge is irrelevant to making loop based music.  Use what 
>ever gauge you like.  Larger gauges
> >> >generally have better tone, but are harder to play.  Find out what 
>works and just do it.
> >> >
> >> >Mark Sottilaro
> >> >
> >> >Sean Echevarria wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I want to play loop music on a guitar.  What brand and gauge of 
>guitar strings work best for loop music?