RE: Percussion on acoustic guitar

["ARTHUR LEE MUSIC" <arthurlee@arthurleemusic.com>]

The problem lies with the RC-20. If you are plugging into the Vocal or Guitar Input your sound will suck because the preamps suck and they alter the sound.

Also your signal is always passing through the RC-20 even when your not looping still giving you the altered (not desirable) sound.

Here's what I did...

Buy some kind of a small mixer and submix your guitar and whatever else into it and then out into an A/B box or the white Boss Tuner that mutes when you press on it and then take that into the CD-IN (Mini-plug jack) of the RC-20. That's a line level input so you need the mixer for additional output. That will give a perfect non altered signal...whatever you put in you'll get out. The A/B box or tuner will allow you to mute the signal when you're not recording so you don't get two signals going into the PA.

 

This will solve the problems and make it sound like any of the better loopers.

Or buy a the Gibson Echoplex Digital Pro and you won't need all that other crap to make it work like it should have in the first place.

 

Good luck...

 

-Arthur Lee

www.arthurleemusic.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Bolan [mailto:pbolan@csiconstruction.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:45 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Percussion on acoustic guitar

Hi, I need some advice about looping and percussion…

 

I recently saw Phil Keaggy in concert, and he used his acoustic guitar to create clean sharp percussion that simulated the sounds of kick drum or hi-hat as part of the loop (he used a Jamman and Line 6).    When I tried it, my percussion sounded extremely muddled.  Here’s my question:

 

How do you get a clean percussion effects from the body of an acoustic guitar?

 

I have a Taylor 914ce, with a Fishman under-the-saddle pickup.  I am a good guitarist, but just starting to explore looping with a Boss RC-20.  Any suggestions about percussion on the body of an acoustic guitar would be very appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Patrick in Portland, Oregon.