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On 12 Sep 2006 at 9:46, mark sottilaro wrote: > > just to clarify, the above comment was made by Nick > > Robinson, who carries more gear around than I do. It's not that excessive - in fact I'm forever trying to simplify things. The current system is guitar into zoom G2 providing distortion, compression, echo, panning & 5 second loop if I want it. I also use a GR30 if the set time is long enough to warrant bringing it along. This stereo feed is split between a "proper" rack jamman and my old powertran analog delay, giving me two loop options - a long "clean" one and a shorter lower-fi loop that I can pitch-shift & modulate. The powertran then feeds an alesis AirFX for "mangling" and both loops go into a small mixer where I use the fx send to feed in an old zoom 1201, bought on ebay for the sum of £15. It's used solely to provide deep lush reverbs. So by & large, I like to keep things moving by letting the loops fade as I add new material, but now and again the loop is so "right" that I let it have its head for a while and slowly bring in filters etc from the airFX. You can hear this approach on recent additions here http://nickrobinson.info/music/audio.htm specifically this file http://www.hursthouse.net/audio/leeds06.mp3 About 1.10 in, I've got the ambient loop in the jamman and a shorter one which is being "fiddled with" on the powertran and airFX at the same time - that's the beauty of "hands-off" processing! It does become a "thoughtful" business trying to decide where the sound is coming from when I want to change the mood! At around 5 mins the loop is frozen and the interest (well, I find it interesting) comes entirely from the airFX filter. As the right hand controls this, the left hand slowly fades in the jamman. I must set my digi camera to stun and actually record one of these sets. All the best, Nick Robinson