Well … the looks are purely subjective so I won’t go
there.
The technique itself isn’t nearly as difficult as it
sometimes looks. Plus, if you have any
background in piano/keyboards, then it’s likely going to seem
very easy.
The setup I currently use is something that took quite a while (a
few buying sprees
and subsequent EBay auctions) to finally get in place and, for
looping, I really love it.
Basically I use a Rane SM 82 single rack space line mixer. This
thing has eight stereo
channels and it is very very clean. No added coloring of the
sound at all. There is a
master stereo effects loop and each channel has a send control.
I run the master
effects loop into a stereo pair of EDPs. From there I can either
loop or not loop any
channel on the Rane depending on whether I’ve turned up
the sends. Right now I
have melody Stick, bass Stick, synth and drum machine running
into the Rane but
will occasionally add bass and/or added keyboards or even
computer output.
The only thing that would improve this would be if Rane allowed
me to control the
sends with MIDI CC messages (hint hint).
Glenn
From: Dennis Moser
[mailto:sinsofmachaut@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 6:09 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: AW: Live Loops Video
Hasn't this (guitar, bass,
synth all on separate channels) been the goal of many of us all along?
The clean control of signal processing each "channel" of sound that
is created ... I'd care less about the looks of the instrument (well, up to a
point ... I rather like the "anti-aesthetic" of The Stick, rather
than the err, ungainliness of the Warr and their ilk) if I could get each voice
to sound clearly as an individual voice. True contrapuntal polyphony at our
fingertips ... all those MIDI guitar experiments of giving each string a
separate and controllable channel ...
It's one of the reasons I was experimenting with the old Vortexes ... trying to
get a separate processing chain for each of the 3 voices coming off the Godin
... I confess, though, I failed miserably the first time I tried to play a
Stick ... it intimidated the hell out of me. But I am still fascinated by it
and its' possibilities.
Dennis
On Dec 18, 2007 2:46 AM, L.A. Angulo <labaloops@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yes an amazing instrument that requires amazing
tehnique isnt it,you can have synth sounds and pure
guitar through one pickup and keep the bass clean
through the other, but the warr guitar has better
looks;-)
Luis
--- Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill
<rs@moinlabs.de> wrote:
> > But hey - what is the guy in the video linked
> below doing? A
> > while into the tune he kicks in a wha pedal and it
> sounds as
> > he has it only on the upper (soloist) strings and
> not on the
> > bass strings. Wow, first time I have seen someone
> making use
> > of the multiple string/ pickup outputs.
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzegYhjNF3Y
>
> It's even more interesting if you look at the
> audience: at the beginning,
> there's no one there - and after he kicks in a wha
> pedal, suddenly the room
> fills with the contents of the neighboring
> retirement home!
>
>
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