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Hi Rhod,
The Digitech Jamman might be what you want as it
stores loops and you can build a backing band. You can use several memory cards
also for different sets. The reason I don't use one is that it's not for
building a song live. You have to stop it and "save" before going to the next
loop. If you build your song catalog up ahead of time then it would probably do
what you want. Once saved you can move forward and back through the different
loops. You can add to these live but I'm not sure if you can then move to the
next loop before saving again. I play improv unstructured stuff so I need
feedback (loops fading) so I use other loopers (Boss DD 20, EH 2880). I would be
sure and try one out if possible. And the optional footswitch is essential.
There is some good stuff on it at
happy looping,
Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:49
AM
Subject: First post - newbie advice
wanted
Hi all
I hope you'll bear with me as I explain the advice I
need...
I have been playing in bands (mostly rock and blues) for more
years than I want to recall ( 3 decades plus) but after a fall out with a
couple of members of my recent band I've decided to sod 'em and go solo.
I have a good rock/blues voice (I've been compared to Paul Rogers of Free,
which is very flattering but I'll never be THAT good!). I'm also
reasonably competent on guitar, so my idea is to have drum sample and possibly
bass midi backing, then play rhythm, lead and sing over the top of it. I
was going to use Ableton Live for this with a Laptop, but it seems
ridiculously complicated for the simple and gritty style of music I'm aiming
for - I also play bottleneck, so there will definitely be a bluesy
bias.
Then I discovered the Jamman, and that seems ideal - pre-record
drum and bass loops in LIVE, download to the Jamman, then on stage play and
record rhythm guitar verse/chorus whilst singing over the top of it, then loop
and play lead guitar, harmonica or whatever and sing over the top of
it.
However I notice that most of you seem to prefer the
Echoplex. Am I missing something here? As far as I can tell the
Echoplex doesn't have the ability to download pre-recorded loops (no way of
storing them?) so I would be severely at a disadvantage - how it be possible
to get 3 sets worth of prepared music onto it? I'm not worried about the
cost - it's more important that I get the right kit, as I have gigs
waiting.
Any advice on which you think I should go for would be much
appreciated. Also any thoughts on the practicality or otherwise of my
idea.
Thanks
For info, I also have a PA, 12 input mixer, Fender
guitar amp, 2 guitars, pedals etc, and a TC Helicon 'VoiceLive' which is a
vocal processor able to produce harmonies on the fly and which has reverb,
compression, noise gate etc.
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