RE: peater trick

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: peater trick

I thought I'd share with everyone a trick that's easily set up on a repeater if it's working with aux sends on a mixer:-

with the overdub level turned right down & "dry muted", I set the unit recording a short loop & playing back through the aux send on the repeater's channel of the desk, back into the repeater. careful not to overload here.

then I adjusted the pitch of the loop while it was recording... each successive repeat changes pitch cumulatively. so the net effect is of a decaying repeat-echo that sounds like it's slowing down but is actually just going down in pitch. or up, if that's how you've set it.

I guess you could send continuous pitch change commands from a locked sequencer, or have the repeats change pitch by musically relevant intervals even, under midi control, but I just used the front panel pitch tweakage. this still works while the unit is recording, btw, but you don't get to see the interval indication unless you drop out into play.

I stumbled across this while using the repeater as a straightforward stereo echo; using it with a desk really opens up all sorts of possibilities that aren't perhaps as obvious as it's standalone loopiness. cumulative changes to any aspect of the recording are possible, such as eq'ing & distorting the contents on successive passes to emulate or even parody tape delay artefacts. adding more & more reverb to the audio on each pass so the repeats "back away". it's a right laugh.

duncan/r.m.i.

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