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Some of you may remember several months back when I related an incident in which I stuck a microphone into the back of a "purist" friend's amp without him knowing to discreetly snag some input from him to loop through my rig while we were jamming. (He said afterwards "Wow, that thing you were doing went PERFECTLY with what I was playing!" to which I replied, "It should've. It WAS what you were playing!") Until then, he seemed to view looping as a "gimmick" or a "crutch", and while he had formerly stood over a pretty impressive tract of pedalboard, was at the time of our jam playing a lot of acoustic fingerstyle and when on electric, using very few effects. Well, he was favorably impressed by the fun I was having with my toys. The following is an extract of an e-mail I just got from him: ************************************************************************ >...The other night I sampled a few simple chords with the DL4, reversed >it, >dropped it to half speed, sent it through a delay and ring modulator, then >sampled a small bit of that with the headrush which was sent to my >Princeton >cranked all the way with tremolo. [ed: his main amp is a TopHat, and he's now using a four amp setup.] The result was this terrifying throbbing >industrial backing loop which was one of the cooler things I've ever heard >come out of my junk. (The wife came screaming downstairs yelling 'that's >the >most annoying thing I've ever heard' so I know it must have been good) >Then >I cleared everything and tried to do it again to see if I could duplicate >it >with absolutely no luck. Ahh, the ephemeral nature of looping. I need to >get >a board for recording on my computer asap... ********************************************************************** Is that beautiful, or what? The loop bug's done bit him good... Have any of you got any anecdotes regarding "converting" your non-looping musical acquaintances? I mean, we could keep flaming Larry, but that's gotten kind of old... :^) Tim