RE: Loop approach: Loop as effect

["Rainer Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

If you tell a brass player to "blow his instrument" and then take the
instrument away, what you will hear is "melodic sound" generated by the 
lips
vibrating in the stream of air. If you add the instrument, the sound is
louder and more focused on a single frequency and sounds what most people
will call "nicer", but this is actually well-consistent with the definition
of an "effect" you gave...

Mind you, I chose the trombone (or any brass instrument) here for a reason 
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your "the instrument does generate sound" point would be valid for about 
any
other instrument I can think of at the moment (except for blowing a comb or
singing onto a timpano or something to this effect)...

        Rainer

Rainer Straschill
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> actually, this doesn't make sense.
> a brass instrument does generate sound.
> though the lip is part of the equation, the instrument doesn't just
> amplify lip buzz...
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> there will always be a distinction blur between effect and instrument.
> is a wah pedal an effect?
> how about the guitar amp?
> good luck being consistent on the hairy edge...
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> "Nothing is intrinsically good or evil, but its usage may
> make it so." - St. Thomas Aquinas
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