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On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Per Boysen wrote:
The first video on this page is me recording for the first time with my Harmonic CapoFYI: Rick Walker and Michael Peters, of this list, have bought The Harmonic Capo which may give you a similar overtone effect for an ordinary guitar: on a Fretless Stratocaster (with UV active daylgo pink strings, I might add...lol). http://www.youtube.com/looppool I also was using the 1st prototype of the Looperlative LP-2 Mini Looper in this recording. I love playing things for the first time, sometimes. How the capo works is that you place it on the 12 fret (or on any barre chord harmonics point) and place the rubber stoppers so that they just barely touch the strings so that the default sound of the instrument (unfretted) are the barre octave harmonics. What is so hip about this set up is that if you fret the strings before the capo, it depresses them so that the rubber stoppers are no longer touching the strings. This allows one to solo with a normal guitar sound but the instrument always defaults to the 12th fret harmonics. Because of this, it sounds wonderful with typical open tunings, but I find it even more versatile to tune the guitar to a 6 string scale (of one's choosing) so you always have finger picking access to harmonic melodies. that's what I did on this track. Another technical note are two effects that I had added to the LP-2......quadruple and quarter speed and one I call 'random retrigger' which takes the loop to random points whenever one retriggers the unit. Playing in a fixed scale as I am, I am always getting some scalar pitch information even though I may have more experimental sounding timbres coming from the guitar. I'm not really much of a guitarist but it make the instrument lie somewhere between a guitar and a zither/harp paradigm. I love it but love my current tuning so much that I'm afraid to change it......more experiments to come. |