Re: New Jazzer on the list

[Darrell Havard <darrell367@earthlink.net>]

on 4/29/02 6:41 AM, Mark Smart at mwsmart@insightbb.com wrote:

> Hi all.
> I am a jazz guitarist from Champaign, IL who just joined the list. I have
> been building a looping setup with two Boss RC-20 Loop Stations, and am
> almost done with it.
> 
> This jazz setup consists of an Ibanez Artist AR-250 with a Copeland hex
> humbucker pickup in the neck position to split the strings so that the 
>top
> four go through a guitar amp simulator and the bottom two can go through 
>a
> Dano Chili Dog octave divider pedal and a Sansmp Bass DI for a bass 
>sound. I
> ended up with two RC-20's when a certain mail order place sent me two 
>when I
> only ordered and paid for one! After I had them for a while, I realized 
>that
> when you string two RC-20's in series you can do a lot of cool tricks 
>like
> recording a long loop over multiple repitiions of a short loop (like the
> Multiply pedal on the Gibson/Oberheim Echoplex). I have 4-bar jazz drum
> loops (from the Peter Erskine Living Drums CD plus a few from regular 
>jazz
> CDs) stored in the first RC-20, which I play bass-and-guitar 
>accompaniments
> over, then loop the whole thing and solo on it.
> 
> I intend to use this setup mostly for straight jazz, but I have done some
> messing around in other styles. I did a few gigs using my Roland VG-8 
>and a
> borrowed Oberheim Echoplex to do Mahavishnu Orchestra tunes and simulate 
>a
> bluegrass band.
> 
> I'm interested to hear from other loopers doing jazz stuff, and others 
>using
> the
> two-RC-20s-in-series trick. Thanks!
> 
> Mark Smart
> 
> 
hey jazzer, great to have you.  you use a rc-20 and a chili dog?!!!  If you
were a stick player I'd say we were separated at birth!  thanks for the
peter erksine cd tip, I've been using funk breakbeats on my rc-20, but I've
been trying to find more jazz drums.