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.

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.

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.

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

“One Four Five” is one I had entirely forgotten about until I did this bit of winter housekeeping. I’ll expand on that one. I can noodle over that progression forever. The trick will be finding a strong melody for it.

“Araby” is a track I’ve had around for years but have never recorded. That one is close to done. Some of the bridge parts (toward the end) are brand new. So I’m still tinkering with them.

Good point about the percussion. I really could use a drummer as a collaborator. I lay the drum track first and rarely revisit it. But all of the drum tracks need work. And I’ll take your advice about mixing them in lower.

I recorded “Postage” as a backing track for a guitarist friend, who was going to add some lines over the top. But that never really happened, so I’m going to take it myself and add a melody to it. I have another mix of it where all the parts are repeated half as many times. So I’ll go back to that one and try to find a melody. Good call on the Police vibe. That whole piece stared out with the electric guitar, which is a Telecaster (like Summers’) and the most Police-ish patch I could find. :)