Re: D-tar acoustic preamp mixer for sale in ebay germany !

[Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com>]

Thanx for the hinsight Rick it is indeed a lovely preamp, is too bad i have to get rid of gear i love but i need the money
so ill have to stick to my mixer sniff,sniff;-(
Luis

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

I love my D-tar acoustic preamp............now everything I take with me
(with exception of my M9 and Boss Pitch Shifter on the floor) fits in a four
rack space soft case that fits into the overhead of an aircraft.
That's a D-tar, Shure in ear monitors system, LP-1, Midi Buddy midi pedals,
mics and cables.      It's heavy but it saves me paying for another bag.

It's surprisingly versatile considering that you can have both a line AND an XLR in each
of the two channels,  each channel with an insert send/return potential and a single
Master effects and return.   Given that there is both a Line out and an XLR out and
also a tuner out gives me a lot of possibilities for not only sending to the house but
also recording the output and sending a send to the headphone amp.

This last is particularly effective because I can take the volume of the individual channel
down so that the audience can't hear what I'm doing, yet I can 'audition' a part before I
loop it or the audience hears.

This is particularly effective when I'm doing a found sound improv where the original
loop has a 'found' fundamental root note.   I can quickly use my fretless guitar or my
Sonica (60's ribbon control pitch organ that allows for rapid and radical tuning) to
'find'  the scale (or quickly tune a couple of strings to the fundamental).

With all the processing power in the Line 6 M9  I can make both of those instruments
or even my voice using extended vocal techniques recontextualize into several different
and interesting new instruments.

Rick Walker