Re: AW: looking for looper that syncs to real drums

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On 25 maj 2007, at 03.49, Murkie wrote:

> I'll second that, Max.  The drummer I used to work with wore ear  
> protection headphones with an "audio in" jack.  I sent him a feed  
> from my Jamman and he locked right in.


I saw a similar concept once when touring in Germany with a drummer  
that had huge all ear covering "hearing protection gear for  
construction workers" and inside those monsters he had normal audio  
headphones. So he could hear everything at nice and moderate level.  
He played fantastic! It wasn't a looping band though, rather hit  
oriented chart stuff with five musicians on stage and an eight track  
ADAT tape recorder filling up with backtracks like orchestral parts,  
huge choirs, drum loops or techno style synth sequences. Only the  
drummer had the backtrack channels in his monitoring. Everyone else  
played along with him - and as a result it all locked up well in the  
PA without sounding too stiff. But drummers that can play well along  
to a click track (which a looper essentially is, from his  
perspective) are so rare. Why is that? Probably because it's dead  
boring and totally unnatural as a musical activity.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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