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Re: Jazz Looping Pedalboard




Hi,
how stable are the SKBs or are there better
alternatives to floor pedal boards?
L.a

> > mark-very nice pic and a nice layout of your
> pedalboard. boy it looks
> CLEAN!!!
> > i'm trying to set up "my new studio" (got the
> fostex mr-8 for xmas &
> > trying to set it up my system w/ my cd recorder.
> boy i'm running out
> > of space w/ my 4-space rack (which is now too
> small since my digitech
> > ips33 sits on top, etc).
> > just nice to see a nice "relatively simple"
> footpedal arrangement all
> nicely
> > layed out. boy thinking back to the days when i
> ran my steinberger
> > through a rat pedal and my yamaha digital delay
> for echo and i was
> > happy w/ that.....
> > s---
> 
> Thanks for all the compliments. It's
> interesting....I also posted a note on
> the jazz guitar newsgroup and one guy's reaction
> there was "Wow, I've never
> heard of a jazzer with so many pedals!" On this
> list, the reaction is "Wow,
> you have such a simple setup!". :)
> 
> The George L's cables really help to streamline
> things. I left some space
> between the pedals so that the 1/4 cables could be
> unplugged without lifting
> the pedals up.
> 
> I am kind of embarrassed that I built this
> pedalboard last year and still
> haven't played out with it yet (other than at music
> stores to try out
> keyboard amps and show off). Right after I built it,
> I got asked to play in
> a real band with a great organist here in Champaign
> (Russell Cheatham) and
> also to restore a huge modular Moog synth. So I kind
> of dropped the project.
> 
> Another reason I haven't played out with it yet
> is....I haven't figured out
> how to END a song in a way that doesn't sound
> totally lame! Maybe someone
> can give me some ideas. It sounds really bad to just
> have the drums suddenly
> disappear while you play a last chord. I also tried
> putting a sample of a
> bass drum and crash cymbal hit into slot 11 of the
> second RC-20, and wiring
> a pedal up to advance it from 10 to 11 at the end.
> That also sounds really
> stupid. Maybe I could just fade out every tune with
> the volume pedal, like
> "All Blues"...
> 
> Another problem is having to bend over to change
> drum beats. Don't have all
> the bugs worked out.
> 
> I fully expect to get really weird looks from the
> jazz audience when I play
> out with this.
> 
> Mark Smart
> 
> 


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