Re: cassette looping electronics help

["alex millar" <abm1213@worldnet.att.net>]

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next to nothing now.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl" <highhorse@mhorse.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:14 PM
Subject: cassette looping electronics help


>
> I'm continuing to explore the possibilites of cassette-based looping,
using
> four-track machines, and I'm thrilled with it thus far.  I've bought a 
>3rd
cheap
> four-track and am having great fun doing things like moving a loop from
one
> machine to another, each time recording it at normal speed then bumping 
>it
up to
> double-speed (a perfect octave shift).
>
> There are a few things that a typical four-track won't allow me to do
though.
> Doing sound-on-sound on a particular would be terrific: I'm doing this in
a
> primitive manner already through modifying cassette cases so the tape
never
> passes over the erase head.  This yields fantastic, evocative lo-fi
soundscapes,
> but the problem is that I'm unable to hear the track until I punch out of
> record.
>
> It seems like there are some pretty electronics-handy folks here (I'm an
eager
> beginner myself, done lots of soldering but no sophisticated mods).
Anyone have
> any ideas?  what I want specifically is:
>
> - to selectively disable the erase function when in record (doesn't have
to be
> per track, just universal)
> - to allow monitoring of playback while recording on the same track
>
> I'd also like to extend the range of pitch speed.  Would messing with the
value
> of the pitch pot accomplish this?
>
> Daryl Shawn
> highhorse@mhorse.com
>