Re: Question about the Boomerang

["Peter Thompson" <pt205@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

As I remember Adrian Belew used the 'reverse' setting on his Roland reverb
unit to produce those backwards sounds such as heard on Heartbeat.  I have
an old Nanoverb which has a similar function which essentially plays the
reverb backwards (not the original note).  On the 'effects only' setting 
the
effect is that of a series of backwards notes.

Yours ever

Pete
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mikell D. Nelson <mnelson@dmans.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: 11 February 1998 07:18
Subject: Re: Question about the Boomerang


>>
>> BTW, the 'Rang sorta does real-time backwards: the backwards notes are,
in
>> essence, delayed by the length of the loop.  It's still a hell of a cool
>> trick.
>>
>> Scott Bullerwell
>
>  There is no real-time backwards device. It's a conceptual
>impossiblity. You can't play a passage in reverse until you get to the
>end. Even if the passage is very short, you have to wait that amount of
>time. And another thing! %^)  If you attempt to use the Boomerang Phrase
>Sampler and do two lightning speed presses of the RECORD button in the
>reverse playback mode, in an attempt to approximate real-time, you will
>be disappointed. Here's what happens. Your two second lick (for example)
>will be divided into 20 tenth of a second snippets, each of which is
>individually reversed and played back. This sounds very choppy, not at
>all like the typical reverse leads created by Jimi Hendrix, George
>Harrison, or Adrian Belew.
>  The reverse parts of songs we love were recorded in their entirety and
>then reversed, most likely by flipping the tape over on an analog
>machine. These days there are much easier ways to do this.
>
>Motley
>
>