Re: stereo

[jayrope LD <jrploopers@kliklak.net>]

Bill,
in fact i very much agree to your post..
Technology is just not musicality per se, and furthermore stereo is  
similarly best, when it is either right, center or left, which is even  
fully compatible  to mono.
Reminds me of that old sound engineers' rule: if you want to find a  
good panning within the stereo field, then adjust it, while listening  
to a mono signal.
Ha.
It works, brilliantly.
J
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jayrope
http://www.kliklak.net

On Jan 23, 2011, at 6:51 PM, Loopers-Delight-d-request@loopers-delight.com 
  wrote:

> It was my not my intent to diss the use of stereo, For crying out  
> loud guys, I use stereo all the time, the recent recordings I've  
> been doing are actually using two separate rigs in stereo recorded  
> simultaneously. But when I do a gig , often times I am not offered  
> the luxury of either a stereo house sound or stereo monitors. If I'm  
> playing solo and bringing my stereo pa, I might be forced to aim on  
> speaker out and on on the floor facing back at me.  In fact it has  
> been my experience that stereo is usually the exception not the  
> norm, in live sound systems. So what do I do now that I don't have  
> my precious stereo security blanket?  I use different delays in  
> series set to different beat values to create the illusion of  
> strereo imaging. It may not fullfill all of you stereo experts ear  
> candy needs but it works for me in real world situations where  
> stereo is not available. Obviously if you always have the luxury of  
> stereo when you play live this point is moot, but I don't .  Also I  
> was getting at an underlying issue that I didn't really clarify but  
> is something I've had on my mind recently, and that is I'm going  
> through a personal reavaluation in my own life about what is really  
> necessary to create music and what is not.  Over the summer I did   
> 20  gigs with an RnB singer friend of mine where we had so little  
> set space for gear that I could only bring one amp. Now for the last  
> 10 years or so my live band rig has always included two tube amps,  
> in stereo split from my fulltone chorus. But over the course of  
> several gigs, though I missed the vox amp and its sublime tremolo, I  
> realized it wasn't essential to playing well and having a good  
> experience. I've had the same epiphany about loopers lately. My  
> looping has been refined to fewer and fewer tracks and a new   
> acoustic duo project I'm putting together will have some looping,  
> but it will probably be simplified to a pair of simple loopers  
> (we'll be using 2 LP-2's for syncing to each other). The idea is  
> that we will use loops very sparingly and concentrate I writing  
> material that doesn't even need looping to be delivered. The overall  
> feeling I have had , is that technology needs to take a backseat so  
> that I can get back to what for me is  most essential , and that is  
> writing good music.
> Bill