Re: New looper guidance wanted/needed

["Christopher White" <magicicada@mindspring.com>]

answers:experiment..i use 3 machines a quad 2 an mpx 1 and a dd3...i use
samplers and analog boards with these machines..it all depnds i was happy
using modified answering machine tapes when i was poor.
c.white
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>From: Allan Hoeltje <ahoeltje@best.com>
>To: Loopers-Delight <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Subject: New looper guidance wanted/needed
>Date: Thu, Dec 30, 1999, 7:33 PM
>

>I've been lurking around here for about eight months now, reading some
>great postings and waiting for the second coming... of the EDP, of
>course.  :-)  In lieu of a proper looping device I finally got the
>courage to combine my GT-5 and GT-3 together with a Macky 1202 mixer and
>fiddle with aux sends, 1.8 seconds of delay, and feedback.  The results
>are very interesting but I guess I was expecting nothing less than
>astounding Fripponian Soudscapes.
>
>Some general questions:
>
>My first notion is that looping and soundscapes are not really the same
>thing; that looping is more phrase sampling with playback and
>soundscapes is controlled feedback/regeneration.  Is this correct?
>
>How much delay time is necessary to do soundscape-like effects?
>
>How many delay units are needed to do decent soundscapes?
>
>Is the EDP suited more for looping than soundscaping?
>
>Can one come close to that Fripp sound without buying lots of TC
>electronics and Harmonizers?
>
>About three months ago someone here posted their Macky 1202 and FX
>signal path.  I have found it very useful and even though none of my FX
>match at least it indicated what one can do with a 1202.  I would really
>like to see more examples of soundscape signal paths and think that
>there ought to be a place for such things on the LD web page.
>
>Allan
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