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As if anyone might be interested, i feel compelled to briefly describe my recent experiments in all that stuff in the subject line, and am addressing this to this list since the eyes of everyone else to whom i mention this quickly glaze over with that 'i'll-pretend-i'm-listening-,-but-really-,-how-would-pamela-anderson-look-running-down-the-beach-butt-nekid' daydream kinda look. not that i look like ms anderson. Be that as it may, i've got the ebow (mostly in haronics mode) making my female north indian tamboura sing after restringing her with the proper strings (chyrogenic, no less), and tuning her up to G instead of C where i had her. I'm using a slide guitar slide on it, and running it through the MPX-1 effects unit for delay and reverb, then looping it in the EDP. Very etherial, even 'wooden theremin', if you will, sounding. It does take a steady hand to keep the ebow close enough to the string to excite it without touching it. I'm using a Countryman hypercardioid Isomax miniature microphone (which seems to give moderately decent side rejection of sound) which i mount to the instrument (as well as to other instruments) with 'quake hold' museum putty - mildly stickystuff used to hang posters on walls without holes, or keep mum's china from dancing to the ground during an earthquake. Works very nicely. I run this through a RNC compressor via a channel insert on the mackie 1202 vlz - this helps *a lot* to keep the signal to the EDP relatively even, since the ebow/tamboura/slide combo goes from 'is it making any sound' to 'let's see if the neighborhood dogs will sing along with *this*'. Even better would be a compressor that can address certain frequency ranges, but the RNC works pretty well. (both the RNC and the Countryman mic have gotten good buzz over on rec.audio.pro) I have the EDP 'in' plugged into an aux-out on the mixer, returning to a normal channel, and am using the "effects to monitor" feature of the mackie, allowing you to chain aux sends. This means that i can loop accoustic input or any synth or sampler i have comming into the mixer. Of any of these, I can send the dry signal to the EDP, the mixed signal to the EDP, or even just the wet signal to it (wet meaning coming from the Lexicon MXP-1 effects processor, and/or soon (hopefully tonight)through a Nord micro modular.) I can then send the output of the EDP back through the effects units. I can also send the EDP output back into itself to reloop, which makes for some interesting chorusing & timbre changes. How I wish the EDP was stereo so I didn't lose all that subtlety of the effects when I loop - yes, i know, but i'm not ready to buy another EDP quite yet. I hope someone might have found this interesting. Oh, yes, raspberry smoothies are *definately* the best. stephen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com