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Re: Looping acoustic instruments with live mics.......?
hi Jason.
this is tricky.
it's a balance of mic positioning and levels.
it happens to me too but a lot of times there's so much energy being
recorded that the faint stuff can't be heard.
dampen the reflections behind you.
good luck,
tim
on 1/21/04 3:22 PM, Jason Spring at j_sun23@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> To Tim Crowe (or whomever else it may concern or pertain to):
>
> I was wondering what experience or problems you have looping acoustic
>drums.
> I'm assuming you have a live mic or mics. I have my drumkit mic'd up,
>and a
> repeater, with dry-mute engaged, in the effects loop of my mixer
>(prefader)
> so I can mix the drums into the repeater without them coming out of the
> speakers (until they're looped of course). I haven't gotten into it very
> deep yet with my repeater, but I noticed the other night that I layed a
>loop
> down, it souded good, but then when I recorded to a new track, the mics
> picked up too much of the original loop from the speakers, and it just
> sounded bad, like a metallic reverby kinda sound. Just curious if you've
>had
> some of the same, or any other problems. Sorry if it's not kosher to
> contact you off list. Thanks in advance.
>
> Jason Spring
>
>
>> From: timothy crowe <timcrowe@sbcglobal.net>
>> Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>> Subject: upcoming show saturday the 24th in berkeley
>> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:48:09 -0800
>>
>> hey loopers,
>>
>>
>>
>> this saturday, jan 24th at epic arts in Berkeley i'm putting on a loop
>> show.
>>
>> i use the repeater with other goodies looping percussives.
>>
>> i mostly use a djembe pitched shifted and blasted through large
>subwoofers.
>> i incorporate a lot of delays, filters, noise and feedback.
>>
>> my music is about groove.
>>
>> hope to see you and your friends at
>>
>> www.epicarts.org
>>
>>
>>
>> peace and dance,
>>
>> tim
>>
>>
>>
>
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