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I'm afraid you have G.A.S. John. (gear aquisition syndrom) We have a 12 step program for those unfortunate souls that can't stop buying gear. When you are ready to surrender you can always counts on us being here...here..here...here........>>>>>>>>>>>>.........Om and Loop on >From: John Tidwell <wedgehed@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com >To: Loopers Delight <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> >Subject: A Loopy Bedtime Story >Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 00:46:36 -0700 (PDT) > >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/ > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com