Re: live looping amplification etc.

[Matthias Grob <matthias@grob.org>]

some points to remember:

- any distortions which sounds good on the guitar probably sounds bad 
on the loops, so they have to happen before the loop

- monitoring is essencial (as max points out). Its not only volume or 
sound quality, but distance! remember that sound travels at 300m/s so 
1 meter brings 3 ms, a delay that we just about accept when its 
happening in the notebook...

- depending on style and music it can be important that the original 
and looped sound completely mix, or it can be that it helps to have 
them from different directions. Think about whether you want to be a 
soloist with a machine that does some background or whether all you 
do is one thing and what you play is just one layer of the whole

- the contracter, the public, your spine, your car, your neighbours, 
even your wallet will love if you can do without a guitar amp. The 
same sound in the headphones, the monitors, the PA, on the recordings 
- its just waaay more practical!

- It may not sound exactly as it did in the 60ies, but decent tools 
have been made, and once you get used to them, they may even sound 
better, at least much more versatile.

- guitar speakers bundle upper middle range. a 12" speaker is not 
able to spread treble. The amp has a filter to push the frequencies 
out of the lame big cone, and the bundling makes that only your 
trowsers and one sector of the public hears those frequencies, and 
usualy far to much of it :-)

- I dont understand why amps with open back are still built and 
bought. It just does not sound right. Bass reflex has been invented 
decades ago...

- reverb only works in stereo. then it opens up... in mono it closes 
down...

- whatever effort you make to get exactly the sound you want - the 
public will only profit because you feel well while playing. They 
hardly can distinguish a real AC30 from some modern simulator, and 
they dont care so much, they like a simple clean direct2desk sound if 
you play well...  but you put on some big reverb, some really new 
sounds and stuff, they sure dig that!
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