Re: distortion, overdrive,fuzz,crunch,special sauce, secret goo

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

omg...still doubled over with laughter at this video. thank you for the 
refresher! I especially love the low riffs towards the end where it 
looks like he's playing a million notes, but all you hear is an unbroken 
BRRAAAAAAAAANGGGGG, this horrible sound.  Poor Baltimore!!

I hereby request sound clips of your nylon-string Looperlative work, 
please. Gots to hear that.

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com

> Eh,  so what's the Baltimore of guitar-ing sound like? Something like 
>this?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ5iwtDyMBI&feature=related 
>  All apologies to the city of Baltimore, and its citizens  
>
>  I love Flamenco guitar and was playing one just last night though I 
>can't
> say I was playing like that, Great Googley Moogly!!! However my looper 
>was
> playing faster than he was ;-) I gotta say using the looperlative to 
>pitch
> shift my tracks can make that Flamenco sound like a uke or a Kora, or a
> weird nylon string bass, If done right.  I can get some lovely textures 
>by
> layering slow finger tremolos and changing the track speed.  
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daryl Shawn [mailto:highhorse@mhorse.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:48 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: distortion, overdrive,fuzz,crunch,special sauce, secret goo
>
> Ah man...thanks! There is nothing so simultaneously humbling and 
> inspiring to me as a good flamenco player. For harmonic richness, 
> technical inventiveness, intensity and soul, I consider this kind of 
> playing to be the holy Mecca of guitar-ing.
>