Re: Strategies to Cover Onstage Equipment/User Failure

["Erdem Helvacioglu" <erdemhel@tnn.net>]

LIMITER ıs your friend :)

that brings us the question of how people use comporessors and limiters in 
impro based experimental music. any tricks, ideas?

www.erdemhelvacioglu.com

New duo album with Per Boysen out now.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: Strategies to Cover Onstage Equipment/User Failure


> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:36 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> 
> wrote:
> > As Rick says, much 'equipment failure' turns out to be user error
> > when it's analysed.
>
>
> Oh so true! Here's the background to why I nowadays never fiddle with
> settings before a gig:
>
> I once forgot my Record Button in momentary mode instead of my usual
> toggle mode. The concert was a very intimate setting, kind of big
> living room style. I started out while two drummers were waiting to
> join in after I had established a funky loop. Playing an alto flute
> pitched down an octave I opened by playing without  looping, trying to
> get into a groovy riff like Zawinol + bass on Weather Report's Black
> Market... you know. As I got the beat right I kicked the Record Switch
> to start snagging a two bar loop. But woops... what happened was that
> I snagged a loop of about 150 milliseconds length and it went
> DANG-DANG-DANG-DANG-DANG... sounding like a pneumatic drill on loudest
> volume. That was a scary moment. Luckily my face was already red and I
> was sweating after having played that funky flute solo (flute is not
> my premier instrument so my playing abilities suck quite a bit,
> especially in the breathing technique department). I picked up that
> machine beat DANG-DANG-DANG and danged along while pressing down the
> record button in a momentary way instead - so I ended up with making a
> completely different groove than was planned. The drummers could not
> play to that horrible thing so I started to substitute chunks to make
> it more musical. The facial expressions of the listeners were quite
> funny, I guess they took it for "highly advanced experimental music
> that you are supposed to dig if you are cool" ;-))  Some children did
> cover their ears in panic. Always trust the children :-)
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
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