Hi & Introduction

["Paul Marshall" <paul@powerhaus.net>]

Hi Group,

I'm Paul Marshall from Bangor in N Ireland.  I subscribed a few days ago 
and
this is my first post.  I have been lurking since to get a feel for the
group and this certainly is a busy and quite technical group, great! I love
learning :)

I'm a jack of many trades for a living, a bit of sound art, some
'composition', performance work (multi-percussion), teaching, technician +
other stuff :).  I am a friend of Rick Walker's (well as much of a friend 
as
you can be on the 'net) and co-founder & moderator of the junkmusic
discussion group which some of you may be members of, I'm the creator of
www.drumdojo.com and sometime contributor to www.Rhythmweb.com. Drummers
amongst you may know me from Framedrummer, Bodhrani, Bodhran makers, 
Goblet,
Cylindrical, RMMPHD, RMMP and other percussive places on the web. Phew Glad
to get all that out of the way

I use VST quite a bit (I'm still on 4.1 for Mac but it's legit :) and most
of my looping experience has been in that framework where you have time to
make it all 'just so', I have been keen to get into live looping for quite 
a
while now and on Rick's suggestion, I purchased a DL-4 and my is she purdy!
I just got an adaptor today after running it on batteries for a while so 
I'm
about to get stuck in to experimenting for real.

As you may be able to gather from my instrumental leanings, most of the
input sources will be acoustic, I have found that this is clunky when
crossing the loop-line or when dropping in a phrase from a 'running' start,
I saw some material about not playing across the line but that's difficult
with instruments such as didjeridu or anything with a continuous pattern.
Are there any tips?

I have a million and one more questions for now but most will be ironed out
by a wee bit of experimenting and some research on the web, again any 
steers
on where to look would be grand.  I have the LD site as a favourite 
already.

Anyway I just wanted to throw my chapeau into the ring as it were and to 
say
hiya to everyone I know and those I don't yet know, I'm not one for lurking
much so I'll be participating at a level which my technical skills allow,
tech wizards please be patient :)  I *will* plug the junkmusic yahoo group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/junkmusic for anyone who is interested in
alternative sound sources for looping or just for fun, our remit there is
wide enough to include some elements of looping and Rick is full of
suggestions on both the junk and looping fronts.

My website is at www.powerhaus.net, I'm fighting with my ISP to get the 
most
recent updates viewable so it may be somewhat out of date unless they have
come through today.

Apologies for the length of this post, I'm usually too rushed to be concise
but I'll make an effort :)

Where I come from, a looper is a madman or madwoman, I'll make my own mind
up about that one :) LOL

Thanks for making such a great group available and I look forward to years
of happy looping.

Keep her lit, lit, lit, lit.....

Paul
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Paul Marshall
Percussive Artist, Sound Artist
www.powerhaus.net
www.drumdojo.com
NI Facilitator for the Da Capo Foundation
www.dacapo.co.uk