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Hi everyone, Since many of us are going to meet at the upcoming festival I'd like to post the specifications of my looper online, because I can think of a lot more interesting things that I'd like to to talk about when meeting everyone IRL :-) When using a highly configurable software looper like Mobius it's not as easily described as simply giving the brand of a preferred hardware looper. I think Mobius is the best looper available because it is so configurable. At the same time I'm hearing complains about Mobius, coming from new users that wants it to be "easier", which in my ears translates into "less configurable" and in my worst nightmares as "dumbed down" ;-) I'm hoping Mobius will continue to be an open system that a user can configure according to his own ideas in order to explore new directions in looping. The setup is basically very simple: - Audio input, - EQ rolling off bass and lifting treble, - 16 alternative effect chains to play through, - The Mobius looper, - EQ rolling off bass, - Stereo compression, - Audio output. I have taken three screen-shots for illustration. This one shows the concert setup: http://www.looproom.com/concert.jpg and here's the concert setup with EQ settings visible: http://www.looproom.com/concert_eq.jpg The reason I cut out bass at the input is that I'm creating bass lines by pitching down loops I record. The signal would be way too boomy for summing into loop layers if I didn't do this. The reason I cut out sub bass after summing all loops into a stereo signal is that this makes the output stage compressor dynamically work in a nice way. If letting sub bass into the compressor even frequencies that are too low for the PA to play back would affect the rest of the sounding material in a bad way (would sound "flickery" instead of a steady groove). Balancing frequencies through all effect treatments into the final compression is also about balancing all this against the live audio input. The FireFace400 allows me to fine-tune all three live audio inputs I'm using to control the compression of the entire mix by my live playing input. The third screenshot is the recording setup. It's exactly the same as the concert setup but without the final compressing and also outputting Mobius track's as separate channels to be recorded separately: http://www.looproom.com/recording.jpg I hope someone may find inspiration in reading this (I know I would myself, some years back). Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international)
