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Well times must be tough for Ian. Maybe things will pick up. On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:07 PM, Dave O'Heare wrote: > I can't hold back any longer. > > My sweetie and I went to see Jethro Tull a couple of weeks ago, and > I ended up chatting with the sound guy afterwards. Very pro stuff > supplied by 8th Day Sound, Yamaha PM5D-RH mixer at FOH, flown line > array, etc., etc., etc.. > > The soundie's big gripe? Ian Anderson was using an SM58 for vocals > and a Beta 54 for flute, run into a tiny Behringer mixer which fed a > pair of Zoom pedals for reverb and delay. That was returned to the > mixer, and the output of THAT was sent to FOH. > > In all, it sounded pretty good, except for Ian's voice dropping out > when he moved at all off mic. > > Dave O'Heare > oheareATmagmaDOTca > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buzap Buzap" <buzap@gmx.net> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:19 AM > Subject: Re: Zoom G2 vs Digitech RP150 > > >>> Makes perfect sense. These pedals are what, 100 bucks? >> well, imo the Zoom G2 sounds much better than 100 bucks. >> Of course, you cannot expect top-of-the-class compression or reverb. >> But the basic effects are really good and sound excellent. >> >>> >Zoom doesn't do acoustic >>> >well, but they probably do better at electric sounds I'm guessing. >> >> It would be also my first guess to use the Zoom pedal for grunge >> guitar rather than country folk. However, sometimes I'm not sure if >> it is the effects or the default patches configured maybe by a >> progressive rock guitarist (instead of a nashville singer/ >> guitarist). Generally, I have that problem also with "European >> versus Asian" sound style on keyboard patches. The first preferring >> more warm/mellow the latter more bright/clear sounds. >> >> I had good results for acoustic fx with the Zoom G2 when using it >> in a very subtle way. (default patches were horrible and sounded >> like "plastic"). >> >> >> Buzap >> >> -- >> Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! >> Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer >> >