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lance g. wrote: "i've been listening to the KPIG archive webcast, and i must say i'm totally blown away by you guys! makes me very sorry to have missed the shows...i do have a technical question for you rick: what gear did you have with you for that interview? in particular, there were some really lovely tapped and/or thrummed and reverberated tones in your piece (layed over the groovy syncopated gamelan-like bed), starting around 9:50 or so...did your signal go through anything particularly exotic, or was that just your superlative alligator-clip & martini stick technique? oh, and what did you mix through?" I was just using a line 6 pedal with my bass capoed up as high as it would go, alligator clips randomly placed on the strings and then malleting with these awesome martini skewers that I found that have large translucent blue tiki heads on the ends of them. When I play hammered/bowed/slide mandolin (the only kind of mandolin I play, unfortunatetly) I can use these skewers as hammers with very good multiple bounce capabilites or I can use them as mini 'slides'. They are awesome and I got them at a trendy retro kitsch store in Santa Cruz for $2.50 for a set of 8. I relied a lot on the line 6 modellers' wonderful backwards/forwards/half speed/double speed characteristics to create parts that were an octave higher or lower. Using this technique, I play a normal rhythmic ostinato, half the speed and then play a skeletal double speed rhythm to the slowed down rhythm. By bumping it back to normal speed, I now have a rhythmic line that is twice as vast and an octave higher.............instant abstract drum and bass ;-) Steve Lawson used a line 6 pedal also and his very cool Lexicon guitar effects processor. I thought I had the line 6 pedal wired until I saw him play and get all of the extraordinarily wierd effects out of his. He doesn't even use an expression pedal.....what an inspration. Max, I believe, was also using an aligatored bass through a Line 6 on that piece. I started the piece for about 30 seconds, Steve joined for a minute or so and Max finally entered. It came out really cool........kind of a psychotic gamelan feel, don't you think? yours, Rick (loop.pool)