Re: 16 second delay reissue a reality

["Steve Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

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From: "Travis Hartnett" <tiktok@sprintmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 19:12 PM
Subject: RE: 16 second delay reissue a reality


>
>  >my 1990-built mxr distortion+ doesn't sound as good as my guitarist's,
> which was made in 1977. quite apart from the inevitable feeling that
> his is >cooler just because it's older.... >mine just doesn't sound as
> good. I'm sure that some of this is psychological, but some of it is
> the quality or otherwise >of the parts.
>
> You know, in 1977 that same distortion+ was considered to sound like
> shit.  "Doesn't sound like tubes..." or  "Doesn't sound like my Fuzz
> Face..." would have been the applicable criticisms.  And anything you
> think sounds bad now will be highly sought after in twenty years.  I
> remember when "germanium fuzztone" was the worst quality for any
> circuit to possess, and now it's highly sought after.

I actually pine occasionally for my old Panasonic (mono) Cassette
recorder-Radio, which had a setting on it that predated "Karaoke" use, 
where
I could play out of the speaker while also recording.  I suspect it was so
one could listen to the radio while recording, but for some reason it was
wired to that MIC IN was also part of the input.  I fried the daylights out
of that thing, to the point where it could only be used to plug my guitar
and effects into, an audiophile's nightmare at best.  I didn't need a fuzz
box, just my Wah-Wah and a Small Stone.  The fried throughput of the
recorder-radio was loud-sounding but not really that loud, if you get my
drift.  Kind of like how some folks can sing like what's-his-name from Ratt
but not have to scream to do it?  It'd been great for busking, he wrote 20
years on...

Did anyone else do this to a recorder-radio?

Steve Goodman
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