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Looper's Delight
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I paid a long overdue visit to an old friend of mine last week. He's the guy who gave me my first guitar lessons some 25 years ago when I was a roadie in his band. I've been trying for the last two years to describe looping to him via telephone. I take along my Line6 DL4 & give a quick & dirty demo. He's suitably impressed & sez he might get one. Then I start looking at some of the effects stuff he has on hand. I find a Digitech Whammy-Wah that he uses "sometimes" & a Digitech RDS 900 that he found cheap but never uses. "It's got chorus, flange, & a little bit of delay", he sez. I had never played with one of these RDS thingys before, but I do pay attention when you folks go off on all things loopy! I ran the RDS into the Whammy- Wah & then commenced to playing strings, pushing buttons, turning knobs, & putting the pedal to the metal. My friend sits there for a solid hour as I spin out bird noises, synth pads, clouds of frogs, and at one point, a particularly evil duet with Charles Manson. When I was done, my friend nodded his head & gave his valediction. "Just leave everything hooked up the way it is", he sez. Do we have a convert? Only time will tell. All I know is that I've added a Digitech RDS-xxx to my already large list of things I want. The list gets bigger, but my budget does not. :( John ===== John Tidwell __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/