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i'm using them live in both my bands.... they come in ultra-handy. specially the ones that actually WERE used in answering machines! never could figure out why a 30 second piece of lo-bias crap costs twice as much as 90 minutes of type II... one of life's little mysteries, i guess - prob. goes along with the reason dthat TL mics cost more than the ones that have 'em. On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Brian Thomson, Dublin IE wrote: > Oh yes indeed, this was my start in looping before I got hold of my Korg >DL-8000. I was playing with these ideas over a few years, and then dug >through a pile of tapes and found I had well over an hour of material. I >copied them to PC, burned them to CD, and I really should dig them out >and upload them as MP3s to give you lot a laugh > > I used various cassettes, including TDK and "British Telecom" brands, in >my Fostex X-30 4-track (the short-lived model that used sliders for all >functions). I modified the speed control by adding a double-speed switch >- the speed control is the only real way of modifying the loop length. I >also tried disabling the erase head to see if that resulted in sound >layering, but the only result was layers of noise! > > As for synchronising your playing to the loop... well in the end I >wrote a little QBasic program on my laptop that drew a "bouncing ball" on >screen, with the ability to adjust the loop length incrementally. I did a >similar thing with Visual Basic years later, which I still have if >anyone's interested in more laughs... > > Anyway, if I can present some of the results online, I'll let y'all >know. My biggest single looping influence then was David Sylvian's "Gone >To Earth", the Bill Nelson / Robert Fripp loop tracks that appeared >there, if that's any guide. > > Cheers, > Brian Thomson, Dublin IE > bnt@email.com > > (ceci n'est pas un .sig) > > ----------------------------------------------- > FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com > Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com > > >