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Re: What does a Echo-plex cost?

At 3:39 PM +0000 2/12/98, Os wrote:
>Michael P. Hughes, Ph.D. wrote:
>
>> It's sad to say, but I really can't see a lot of these shipping in the 
>UK.
>> There hasn't been any innovation in UK guitar (OK, at least not much) 
>since
>> Andy Summers arrived in the early 80s.  People will pay for gear in 
>Britain
>> - just not much that's been invented less than 30 years ago.  You don't
>> need an EDP to play Oasis/Blur/etc/etc/etc.....
>
>Curious that you assume that guitar players will determine the fate of
>the EDP. I for one would use it with synths; a friend of mine loops with
>piano (cf. Harold Budd); and any number of new-age types like to go
>'oooh' into loopers as part of a performance (eg. Alquimia).
>Trumpet/sax/clarinet also loop pleasingly.

you know, it just baffles me how looping gets so associated with guitar.
(at least in some circles...)  The sound going into the loop can be
anything, where do people get the idea that its just a guitar effect?
mystery.....

kim

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