Comments on: “Good Day” http://jamesnotjim.com/2008/07/good-day/ a music site of solo recordings by james "wheatbread" martin Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: wheat http://jamesnotjim.com/2008/07/good-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2490 wheat Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:48:31 +0000 http://jamesnotjim.com/archives/33#comment-2490 Right, in this particular case, it works out to once every two bars, but it's the same concept. You could do something similar with the 'Rang. With it, you set up the loop and then use the "stack" (momentary) button to add to it. The Boss LS-2 might be just the thing. Thanks for mentioning that. Right, in this particular case, it works out to once every two bars, but it’s the same concept.

You could do something similar with the ‘Rang. With it, you set up the loop and then use the “stack” (momentary) button to add to it.

The Boss LS-2 might be just the thing. Thanks for mentioning that.

]]> By: Thomas http://jamesnotjim.com/2008/07/good-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2488 Thomas Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:07:03 +0000 http://jamesnotjim.com/archives/33#comment-2488 Oh, okay. That's what I meant--play them once per bar, not once total. I'm surprised there's not an eternal loop mode on the Boomerang. You can do that on the DL-6, by setting the loop mix/feedback fairly low and then just setting the endpoint. But it gets messy fast--I suspect you're better off with the delays. The kind of routing you're talking about is the reason I keep a Boss LS-2 around, but it's toggle and not momentary. I don't know if it would be worth checking out. Oh, okay. That’s what I meant–play them once per bar, not once total.

I’m surprised there’s not an eternal loop mode on the Boomerang. You can do that on the DL-6, by setting the loop mix/feedback fairly low and then just setting the endpoint. But it gets messy fast–I suspect you’re better off with the delays.

The kind of routing you’re talking about is the reason I keep a Boss LS-2 around, but it’s toggle and not momentary. I don’t know if it would be worth checking out.

]]> By: wheat http://jamesnotjim.com/2008/07/good-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2487 wheat Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:27:47 +0000 http://jamesnotjim.com/archives/33#comment-2487 Ah, to your question. No, actually. Since the delay time isn't all that long, I play the chords (it's two triple-stops: each has one note + two harmonics), then riff for a few measures, then hit the chord again. And I just keep going back and forth like that throughout the track. Later on, the chords get replaced by some big slides, but then they return at the end. With those settings, I get about eight usable repeats before things fade into the background. What would really be cool would be some way to switch (via a momentary pedal) between routing through the effect and routing around it. Then I could decide, on the fly, what gets added to the loop and what doesn't. I guess I can more-or-less do that with the Boomerang's "stack" feature. But what I want is really the reverse of that: by default, I want everything to become part of the loop. I'd only occasionally want to add some burst of notes that doesn't need to be looped. Ah, to your question. No, actually. Since the delay time isn’t all that long, I play the chords (it’s two triple-stops: each has one note + two harmonics), then riff for a few measures, then hit the chord again. And I just keep going back and forth like that throughout the track. Later on, the chords get replaced by some big slides, but then they return at the end.

With those settings, I get about eight usable repeats before things fade into the background.

What would really be cool would be some way to switch (via a momentary pedal) between routing through the effect and routing around it. Then I could decide, on the fly, what gets added to the loop and what doesn’t.

I guess I can more-or-less do that with the Boomerang’s “stack” feature. But what I want is really the reverse of that: by default, I want everything to become part of the loop. I’d only occasionally want to add some burst of notes that doesn’t need to be looped.

]]> By: wheat http://jamesnotjim.com/2008/07/good-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2486 wheat Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:59:59 +0000 http://jamesnotjim.com/archives/33#comment-2486 Thanks, Thomas. I wasn't sure that I liked this one as much as <a href="http://jamesnotjim.com/archives/32" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">the previous one</a>, but it's growing on me. Thanks for the feedback. Thanks, Thomas. I wasn’t sure that I liked this one as much as the previous one, but it’s growing on me. Thanks for the feedback.

]]> By: Thomas http://jamesnotjim.com/2008/07/good-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2485 Thomas Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:57:18 +0000 http://jamesnotjim.com/archives/33#comment-2485 Very cool. I love how the delays gradually build up a bass rhythm combined with the AM radio-like modulation whistle. So did you only have to play the double stops once, and then it took over? Very cool. I love how the delays gradually build up a bass rhythm combined with the AM radio-like modulation whistle.

So did you only have to play the double stops once, and then it took over?

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