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The DL-4 pedel is a fine hunk of looper, although I found it's limitation of not being able to set the feedback % to be a deal breaker. I love to build up a loop, have it run as it is for a while while improvising over it, then open it back up and have what I recorded fade as I had new sound, until I have a totally different loop. But that's me. Maybe you never want to fade your loops. Check out the Boss Loopstation too, lots of people here love it and a new one that does multipal loops is coming out soon. I'm a fan of the Boss GigaDelay DD-20 http://www.loopers-delight.com/tools/bossDD20/bossDD20_review1.html I like it better than the DL-4 due to it's ability to have 2 loops instead of one and it's ability to control the feedback level. It also has some cool delay models. They're a bit gimmicky, but fun and sometimes just what you want. Did you have a price range? I think I paid $200 for the GigaDelay. You can easily spend up to $1500 for a looper, but for your first you might want to start small. Soon you'll say, "damn if only my looper did..." Next thing you'll know you have to buy a rack for all your gear. ;) Mark --- Trista Hill <trista@tristahill.com> wrote: > I'm sure you get posts like this all the time! I > just subscribed to the list today and though I have > been spending time searching around the archives, > I'm impatient enough to just come out and ask my > question. > > I want to get started using looping devices in order > to channel the incessant music I hear in my head. I > love what Andrew Bird and Caryn Lin are doing with > the violin, and Zoe Keating with the cello.... I > want to do something similar with harp. While they > make electroacoustic harps now, I am in no position > to run out and buy one. > > So I will be using my acoustic semi-grand pedal > harp, though it's difficult to capture the harp's > full range. Was looking at a Line 6 DL4 delay pedal > (used by Andrew Bird), and briefly looked at the > Akai Headrush pedal (though I think the sampling > time is too short for what I need). The equipment I > currently have is a Tascam Portastudio, a Peavey > Ecoustic amp, and a few mics (at least one > condenser). Sad but true -- when you are playing > weddings all the time, you really don't have the > need for anything else! I have asked around on some > harp sites about looping devices, but apparently no > one has experience with playing the harp in this way > (oh the blasphemy...) > > My goal is to create real-time loops for live > performances (eventually) and to work out ideas that > I can take to a studio and record. I'm in relative > isolation here in the Midwest given my interests and > instrument, so perhaps erroneously have been > thinking that the only way to get where I want to > go, I'll have to do it myself. > > Any advice to a bumbling beginner would be so much > appreciated. > > Trista Hill > www.tristahill.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com