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I’m with Mark on this one. Thematic continuity is crucial. I’m sure this will sound sort of amateur to many of you who
are computer and sequencer savvy but it’s new to me so here goes. I use a turntable and scratch mixer rather than a sampler to
insert rhythms into my EDP loops (I’m a little old school). I’m
not a drummer by training so I like to take old jazz records with great
drummers and manipulate the rhythms on them to get what I need. The percussion
tones sound much better this way to me than anything I could generate with my
clumsy wielding of sticks. Because of this admittedly primitive technique, I discovered I
am able to also send output from my board (the control room mix) back into the
scratch mixer and this allows me to scratch chop and dice “against”
my own complete loop if that makes sense. In other words, I am introducing
silences, beats and scratch sounds where there previously were none. Recently I have been using this technique almost exclusively to
create a rhythmic basis for the next loop on the EDP’s and I think it
makes for very interesting transitions because it changes the “feel”
almost entirely but retains some musical elements of the original loop. I end
up with several loops that are rhythmically different but musically similar
that I can switch between on the EDP’s and this actually works well for
chorus/verse type compositions. The different rhythms force me to play really different types of
guitar lines on top of each loop but on similar musical scales. The only thing
I try to be mindful of is occasionally going back to the original loops and
adding some layers so that things don’t get too uneven. This solves the
problem of the original loops sounding “original” as mark puts it. It has taken me a lot of practice to learn to do this smoothly
but it is well worth it IMHO. Anyone else on here use a similar technique? I
would love to exchange some tips. Ace From: markfrancombe@gmail.com
[mailto:markfrancombe@gmail.com] On Behalf Of mark francombe What I like is using more than
one loop.. cant speak for other loopers, but with EDP i just got to a differnt
loop.. and one day I go back to the original loop, often the loop has moved on
by then and the original seems... wel original... If you switch between loops
like this working on each all the time, REPLACING rather that overdyúbing..
then you get more variation. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:44 PM,
Nadia Salom <nadia.salom@gmx.de>
wrote:
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