Re: ADSR stomp box

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

andy butler wrote:
> "I reckon that part of it is that guitar players tend to be ultra 
> conservative,
> always looking to what established guitar players use and do."

Funny that you say that, Andy, because I just got back from the 
Percussion Arts Society enormous annual
convention and drummer/percussionists make guitar players look like the 
most adventurous musicians on
the planet.

I actually think of guitarists as very adventurous, but I realize that 
this is because I've been hanging
out with looping guitarists for the last 15 years of my life and they 
are quite adventurous compared
to most non-looping guitarists.
> "Also, it takes a certain amount of variation in playing technique to
> make a triggered effect work effectively. (then again, the same is true
> of distortion, so I guess it just comes back to conservatism).
> There are a number of Attack fx available, the most well known being
> the Boss "Slow Gear". "
Yeah, thanks!  I'm already aware of all the ways to control the attack 
(volume manipulations,
ebows, slow gear effects, etc.    It's been the DSR part of the function 
that I'm more interested in
because I'm so interested in the guitar as a single line ostinato 
creator for my own musical
and rhytmmic purposes
> "The compression is actually necessary to make the ADSR (really an ADS
> in the Pigtronix)) work in any useful way. It compensates for the 
> natural decay of the string. "
Nice point that I didn't think of.   I think I learn something from you 
almost every time you post.    I really appreciate your extremely deep 
knowledge base, Andy!
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