Re: Why use 2 loopers?

[Eric Williamson <erwill@suitandtieguy.com>]

Quoting Brian Carabee <compguy@bestweb.net>:
> Exactly why and how does one go about using two seperate looping devices?
> Maybe someone can explain to me the way they are used together (FWIW, 
>I'm a
> guitarist).

Why? well for textural looping it's _vital_ to have multiple loops going 
on at
once, to distract the performer and the listener from being reminded you 
are
indeed using a looping device. for rhythmic looping it's fun too ... but i
haven't done rhythmic looping with multiple loopers since a house party in
1998. i had an MC-303 for drum beats, and used one EDP for my bass lines, 
and
my second EDP for my arpeggio or texture parts. that allowed me to move 
from
key to key by first recording a new bass part, then keep the groove up 
while i
build a new textural loop on top. people were gettin down and dancing
_to_free_improv_ (yet highly cliched i'm sure) at that show. it was fun.

How? i personally use a mixer. the mute-bus from my Mackie goes out to 
another
Mackie, which has the Eventide on _it's_ mute-bus and my two looping 
delays on
aux sends. this way i can re-route the loopers around, through or past the
Eventide with considerable effort. for minimal effort a preset-capable 
matrix
mixer would be handy. Bob Fripp uses the Switchblade, but i don't have his 
kind
of money. i'm going to use a Mark Of The Unicorn 828 mkII audio interface 
...
it's got a matrix mixer in it, and would also function as the audio 
interface
for my computer.
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Eric Williamson
www.suitandtieguy.com