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At or around 09:00 PM 12/30/99 -0500, Tim Nelson wrote: >>How many delay units are needed to do decent soundscapes? > >A lot depends on what type of delays you're using; if you've got something >with a decent live overdub capability (see "Tools of the Trade" on the LD >site <http://www.annihilist.com/loop/tools/tools.html> you can do a lot >more than you could with a sample-and-hold delay. Yes, you can, in some respects; personally, though, I'm happier with my rack full of old RDS-series delays and the DE-200 than I was with the Jamman or in my trials with an EDP. There's something about the old dials and things in a series that I like, as well as the being forced to be innovative with what you've got approach to looping. I mean, for the price of one EDP, I can have 10 old RDS 3.6s that'll do some pretty amazing things in conjunction :) >What many loopers do when >they upgrade, though, is to hang onto their older delays since you can >always find some use for a short looper. You can never have too many delays.. One thing that's probably more >important than the number of delays in doing decent soundscapes has to do >with the variety of sounds being input TO your delays; a wide range of >timbres from your instrument(s) when combined with a looping device's >overdub capability can sound pretty orchestral, polyphonic or just plain >massive. Having some LFOs in the delay unit(s) never hurt either, particularly those that are non-destructive to what's in the sample-and-hold loop. This reason is also why I'm so fond of my ebow and odd things like the EH BassBalls pedals and similar envelope filters. Hell, I even like the oddball digital distortions I've been pulling out of an old REX50 that one of the fellow loopers sold me a few weeks ago. == the Reverend Rob ICQ: 1280871 Yahoo: theReverendRob http://www.realm-of-shade.com .`. .`. .`. .`. http://www.qblh.com ================================================================= "I prefer not to kill people, but I'd like to destroy as much property as possible." - Grace Slick, from the Airplane FBI file ================================================================= http://www.realm-of-shade.com/music : feedback and echo MP3s