Re: new looping device :)

["Bill Fox" <billfox@fast.net>]

With eight phones, why didn't you daisy-chain them all together in a big 
loop
with a mic at each junction for a multi-tap effect?  Ain't hind sight 
grand?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Leas <dennis@mdbs.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com 
<Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 4:02 PM
Subject: new looping device :)


>As part of a gig this weekend, all eight participants had digital cell
>phones.  (These were kindly provided by the local Cellular One office.)  
>I'd
>never played around with so many cell phones before and I discovered a
>property that other loopers might be interested in.
>
>When I phoned other participants in the same room, I quickly noticed a
>significant delay when speaking on the phone.  I didn't measure it but it
>was probably 1/2 to 1 second in length.  So I took two phones and held 
>them
>in a "69" position :).  This created a feedback loop of about 1 to 2
>seconds.  I amplified the set-up with a tiny "tie-clip" style mic and sent
>it to the PA.  You could whistle, speak, etc into the phones and generate 
>a
>decaying or sustaining signal, depending on how close together you held 
>the
>phones.  Quite awkward, but fun!