Re: Jibberish

[Greg House <ghunicycle@yahoo.com>]

What you quoted looks like std ascii text to me. The original message 
looked fine
in my yahoo viewer when I got it.

Greg

--- msottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net> wrote:
> Hey, I keep getting posts of jibberish (see below)  Anyone know what 
> that's about?  My email client deals with html (which I can see that 
> this is not), RTF and Plain Text, but what the hell is this?
> 
> Mark Sottilaro
> 
> On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 05:08  AM, Don Makoviney wrote:
> 
> > >>>2) Someone like me who comes from a traditional music
> > >>background (blues
> > >>>and
> > >>>jazz) automatically thinks in terms of traditional song
> > >>structures like
> > >>>A-A-B-A. How many people on this list have actually tried to loop a
> > >>>traditional verse-verse-chorus-verse song? I've been working
> > >>at it for a
> > >>>year, and it's frustrating. The Repeater fixes the bar
> > >>length with the first
> > >>>recorded track, so forget an AABA song where the "B" section
> > >>is a different
> > >>>number of bars, unless you want to get into a Midi pedal tap dancing
> > >>>nightmare of arming and switching between loops.
> > >>
> > >>seems to me your problem is specific with the repeater, not
> > >>looping. That's
> > >>simple to deal with in the Echoplex. The boomerang might be
> > >>able to do it
> > >>too, I'm not sure. The jamman had the same problem of forcing
> > >>all the loops
> > >>to be the same length.
> >
> > Yes Kim, you're right. The Boomerang allows you to have two different 
> > loops of size. I use that a lot. Guys like Keller Williams write very 
> > simple AABA songs using an Echoplex. Blues, bluegrass, funk. All that 
> > stuff. Loopers work great for more traditional stuff. Check out DJ 
> > Williams too.
> >
> >
> > >>
> > >>>And then there is the
> > >>>problem of the "crash to a singularity" when you've built up
> > >>a looped
> > >>>"A" section with bass, rhythm guitar and lead, and then
> > >>suddenly move
> > >>>to naked guitar on the "B" section because it needs a new
> > >>bass line and
> > >>>new rhythm chords. If you're not working in the ambient soundscape
> > >>>style, you can't hide these transitions with washes of delay
> > >>and reverb
> > >>>tails.
> >
> > Keller Williams also does this well. He builds up a section then just 
> > stops the Echoplex and goes to a single live (unlooped) guitar and his 
> > voice. It's pretty powerful and works well. I believe the EDP also 
> > allows you to copy over to other loops so when you get a good simply 
> > stacked loop (i.e. bass drums and a rhythm for example) you can copy 
> > that puppy to another loop, right? (I'm just going off what I glean 
> > from the lists. . .I don't own one.) On my Boomerang I can switch from 
> > recording a loop to b loop with one button so I often just keep 
> > playing the same thing (like a bass line or guitar riff) onto the 
> > other loop too so I have two loops of the same thing. It's not as easy 
> > as simply COPYING a working loop like with the Echoplex, but I didn't 
> > spend the extra few hundred for the EDP (dang it). It requires a 
> > slight bit more maneuvering and forethought (like maybe remembering to 
> > also play the next couple of things I stack on the B loop too), but it 
> > works in a fairly logical manner.
> >
> > Mark, seriously, check out Keller's live album called "Loop". There's 
> > some great stuff on there in the "traditional" style you seem to come 
> > from. He uses an Echoplex.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Don M
> >
> 


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