Re: A Loopy Bedtime Story

["Larry Tremblay" <ltct@concentric.net>]

Nice bedtime story, John. Great ending, too. As a fellow loop 
evangelist I can appreciate your experience with you friend.
Once you show someone how it's done and what's possible, that's 
all it takes to convert them.

I agree with you about the Digitech RDS series of delays 
- they are still THE workhorses of loopology. I have (4) 
7.6's, (2) 4000's and (1) 8000 and think they're great!
Add a few FX-17 footpedals to control the VCO's and you've
got a serious mayhem factory. Best of all, they can still 
be found for cheap on eB*y and elsewhere.

Thanks for sharing. :)
- Larry T



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Tidwell" <wedgehed@yahoo.com>
To: "Loopers Delight" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 3:46 AM
Subject: A Loopy Bedtime Story


> I paid a long overdue visit to an old friend of mine
> last week. He's the guy who gave me my first guitar
> lessons some 25 years ago when I was a roadie in his
> band. I've been trying for the last two years to
> describe looping to him via telephone.
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> I take along my Line6 DL4 & give a quick & dirty
> demo. He's suitably impressed & sez he might get one.
> Then I start looking at some of the effects stuff he
> has on hand. I find a Digitech Whammy-Wah that he
> uses "sometimes" & a Digitech RDS 900 that he found
> cheap but never uses. "It's got chorus, flange, & a
> little bit of delay", he sez.
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> I had never played with one of these RDS thingys
> before, but I do pay attention when you folks go off
> on all things loopy! I ran the RDS into the Whammy-
> Wah & then commenced to playing strings, pushing
> buttons, turning knobs, & putting the pedal to the
> metal. My friend sits there for a solid hour as I
> spin out bird noises, synth pads, clouds of frogs,
> and at one point, a particularly evil duet with
> Charles Manson. When I was done, my friend nodded his
> head & gave his valediction. "Just leave everything
> hooked up the way it is", he sez.
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> Do we have a convert? Only time will tell.
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> All I know is that I've added a Digitech RDS-xxx
> to my already large list of things I want. The list
> gets bigger, but my budget does not. :(
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