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Hi all, talking about golden nostalgia here... does anybody remember the Deltalab DL-2 Acousticomputer? I havenīt found any more detailed info on the net than I know anyway (which isnīt much), so if somebody could enlighten me... eternal gratitude will ensue! Stephen ____________________________________________________________________ "Ambition makes you look pretty ugly." (Thom Yorke/Radiohead -- "Paranoid Android") "Hoellenengel" -- new album by Stephen Parsick, street date October 1, 2005. For info and audio, please check www.parsick.com Itīs out: "oughtibridge", the new [īramp] album, recorded live in England. For info and audio, please visit the official [īramp] website at www.doombient.com WTB: "Englandīs Hidden Reverse" by David Keenan (Coil, Current93, Nurse With Wound, David Tibet). ----- Original Message ----- From: Andreas Willers <a.willers@arcor.de> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:29 AM Subject: Re:gratuitous nostalgia was: re: Looping in prehistory > from Jaco's biography: > "As Jaco described the effect, "I've got an MXR Digital > Delay, which I put through one amp" > > > Doh!!!!!! I had remembered it, innacurately as an ADA when, of > course, it was an MXR delay. > I always have a problem remembering the names of those early digital > delays (MXR, Delta Labs, ADA, Korg, etc.) > They were all out of my price range and were state of the art in > their day (and thus, fairly > pricey by a beginning musicians' standards). > > I can see that unit clearly though. with it's big blue > faceplate...............I think he was still using Acoustic amps, > wasn't he? > > Someone posted a long time ago that they saw me using that MXR rack > mount unit in Union Grove music about that time > using it's piddly but exciting short loop time with a microphone. I > was really into the music of the Ituri > Pygmies who used yodelling techniques and a cool technique where you > sing a note into a short piece of > closed off bamboo (or you can use a small old fashioned ink bottle, > as well) and sing a falsetto note > in between blowing on the bottles. > > > -> Alright, Rick! > I rember well lusting for the MXR as well after seeing WR and > "demoing" the hell out of it at a music store - it must have had like > three or four seconds of delay!? All I could afford was a Distortion+ > though, and two days later a Boss CE-2 chorus and a Korg tape echo > (not a bad sound!). > Andreas >