Re: New looper guidance wanted/needed

[Dpcoffin@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/30/99 6:47:42 PM, ahoeltje@best.com writes:

>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.  

I prefer short delays  (between 1-5 sec.) for looping, mostly because I 
find 
them easier to use rhythmically,  so long as I have some ways of varying 
the 
loop as it rolls around. So, I always place some fx afterwards, usually 
ones 
that have a sweep or step function that can alter the sounds over longer 
periods that my delay time, or set to modulate out of sync with the delay 
pattern, so it seems to change over a longer time, or to simply not be so 
relentless. The Gt-5 can do this all by itself wonderfully, using the 
Internal Wave function if the fx doesn't have a builtin lfo. Also check 
out 
its delay spill-over function: copy the same hold-delay preset to each 
slot 
in a bank, then change the sounds going into and post-processing the loop 
in 
each preset. Now you can switch presets without losing the delay contents, 
but in each case the loop will sound different, and you can add different 
sounds to it.
Also, re: Mackie mixers, I don't remember if the 1202 has control room and 
main outs or buss assignment buttons, but if it does, you can use the main 
outs to send any and all inputs to another looping delay, then bring the 
delay back to a channel strip set to output only to the control room outs, 
which is what you send to your monitor. All other inputs are (or can be) 
set 
to both main (to looper) and control room (to monitor). At 
www.vg-8.com/users/, I've posted a schematic of this sort of routing map 
using a 1604VLZ, which still surprises me with evermore useful routing 
options, after several years of messing around with it. 
dpc