Re: looking for simple live looper not based on tempo....

[dylan <dylanhassinger@yahoo.com>]

thanks!

--- James Winger <jdwinger@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Dylan;
> 
> Digitech made a few long delay racks in that time machine
> series
> 
> you may also want to check out the 3600 - which got about
> 7.2 seconds (you 
> could trim it to about 8) and had digital display.
> 
> I'm not really a big Phish guy, so I couldn't comment on
> a particular sound.
> 
> One caveat with the older loopers, while you don't have
> to start and stop a 
> loop, it also means that you don't have any control over
> that.  It was a 
> little difficult to get a "seamless" loop as you had to
> anticipate exact 
> loop length and play into that.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Scott Hansen <scott-a-hansen@uiowa.edu>
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> Subject: Re: looking for simple live looper not based on
> tempo....
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> 
> hi new member-my looping experience is "new" also, but if
> you
> are going to use a looper live, i would recommend a
> foot-pedal oriented 
> thing.
> if you get a rack delay/looper you'll have to get a foot
> controller of some 
> kind. my first digital delay pedal, the yamaha dds-20m
> (from late 80's) did 
> something like you wanted. it had a sample mode where you
> could sample
> 1.2 sec of material and play it back hitting the pedal
> button. it also
> had 1.2 sec of delay.
> i'm sure that some of the newer pedals, the boss dd-6 or
> the digitech 
> x-series
> delay would do something similar (i don't have them, just
> have read about 
> them).
> those both have 4-5 sec of delay/looping time.
> some thoughts for you. i'm sure others will chime in.
> s---
> 
> 
> >hi all,
> >
> >i'm a new member. i got a question, sorry if you've gone
> >over this before, i've checked the archives but didn't
> find
> >an answer...
> >
> >i'm looking for a simple looper to do live loops not
> based
> >on tempo. i'm trying to mimic the thing trey anastasio
> of
> >the band phish does in songs like "ghost" and "sand" and
> >"first tube"....
> >
> >i've looked at the boomerang and the new boss looper,
> but
> >these require you to start the loop as well as stop. so
> now
> >i'm looking at old-school rackmount delays, which don't
> >require you to start the loop, only to hit the "hold"
> >button to make it start looping.
> >
> >i've heard trey uses the ibanez dm-2000 for this stuff,
> but
> >it only has a 2-second delay i think.
> >
> >anybody have experience with the following units? (i can
> >get these units locally)
> >- ibanez dmd-1000 (1-2 sec delay?)
> >- digitech rds-900 (1-2 sec delay?)
> >- ada delay (1 sec delay, profiled here:
> >http://www.guitargeek.com/gearview/254/
> >- rocktron powerplay fx/delay
> >- digitech rds-8000 (8 second delay!!)
> >
> >right now i'm leaning towards the rds-8000. what should
> i
> >pay for this?? any thoughts on these or other units??
> any
> >advice is VERY appreciated, email me privately or on the
> >list, thank you!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >i'm looking for something to play riffs into live that
> will
> >repeat it hypnotically ad infinitum...... thanks!
> >
> >dylan
> >dylanhassinger@yahoo.com
> >
> >
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