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--- lol c <testtubemicro@hotmail.com> wrote: > good luck with you busk-loop. lemme know how it goes > cos i have had some > similar ideas but never gotton round to it. Well, this afternoon I went out for a couple of hours on my second test run. Same setup as yesterday except I brought the DL4 instead of the RC-20, and was eBow-less due to a dead 9 volt! The anti-amp legislation still had me a little inhibited; I had the Pignose stashed covertly in a backpack, but the big, honkin' green DL4 was a bit too obvious. At one point, a bicycle cop passed right by me, looked right at me, nodded and didn't stop. It was probably because 1) the "amplified" loops were no louder than the acoustic, 2) I was playing oooh!-so-pretty fingerstyle and/or 3) all of the nearby park benches were occupied by young ladies in walking shorts and he didn't want to be seen as a Blue Meany. Even though the young ladies in walking shorts definitely showed all the right symptoms of enjoying the music, I really did feel a little constrained. It's a different vibe from a regular gig; if I'm playing a club or a gallery, someplace where the audience comes *in* expecting to hear live music, I don't feel like someone's about to come up and tell me I'm being intrusive. I think it must have been the amp, as I often take a mandola or a bouzouki along to pass the time while waiting for the clothes to dry at the laundromat... The only comment from a passerby that acknowledged the fact that I was looping came from a guy pushing a stroller who, upon seeing the DL4 at my feet, remarked "Aha! I THOUGHT it sounded like there was more than one of you!" I may try it again tomorrow with sitar instead of git-tar... Since both the DL4 and the RC-20 now have batteries in them, maybe I'll use both of 'em. Pretty soon, I'll look like Steve Martin in 'The Jerk'; "I don't need anything. Just this. And this. And the paddle game... And a lap steel... And..." -t- np: the television, where a public service spot for Americans for the Arts just aired. The ad features a dour, grouchy, art-deprived little boy who passes a violinist playing in the park and tells him to "Get a job." Ouch. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com