RE: Introducing myself :: Rob McDade (South Australia)

["McDade, Rob (SLSA)" <McDade.Rob@slsa.sa.gov.au>]

Hi Per, (and tEd)
I usually bring 3 guitars to a gig plus my 'small' rig.
One acoustic and two electrics (my Fender Strat) and a backup guitar
just in case of a string break mid song. It is a good idea to try to get
diverse sounds with one instrument and I try to do that with my electric
and different pedal settings. I recently bought a behringer multi FX
pedal for $50AUS. Which I can tweak and get some interesting sounds -
tremolo, chorus, flanger, etc. For $50 its pretty good!  Most of my
sound revolves around delays - and different distortion settings. I have
a boss turbo OD (set to a standard OD setting) and  boss Heavy Metal
pedal. I usually use that one with the OD to get crazy super distortion
/ sustain (ala Robert Fripp ca. 1973/74).  For extra tone control I have
a morley wah pedal which I usually leave ON and just adjust for
different tones. Sometimes I do the standard wah thing - but usually its
just for the tone.
When I want to lay down a bass line I use my SUPER OCTAVE - I set it to
POLY mode so it only effects the bottom two or three strings, and is a
bit more stable. Then I move the wah toward the heel position and it
gets a nice sort of rumble sound - more of a f*cked up bass / guitar
sound than a proper bass sound.

Gigging tomorrow nite - will play Freakout live for the first time!

Rob McDade

-----Original Message-----
From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2007 6:33 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Introducing myself :: Rob McDade (South Australia)

On 6 mar 2007, at 04.15, McDade, Rob (SLSA) wrote:

> Hi,
> This is my first post to this email list and I thought I'd introduce
> myself.


Hi Rob,

and welcome to this list. Interesting idea you have about building  
stands for your instruments. I know some musician friends that did  
that. If you have a stand for your acoustic you could simply swing  
over the electric at your back when approaching the acoustic. That  
would be fun to watch, being in the audience ;-)

I too play many instruments, but I have more or less chosen not to  
bring them all at gigs - rather focusing on techniques to use one  
instruments for many musical roles. Like bringing a cello bow and a  
flute with an electric guitar or like using a pitch shifter to make a  
tenor sax sound a little differently on some occasions. My newest  
love is an EWI and for this instrument I have created multi layered  
and cross-faded sampler patches of my stratocaster played through a  
cranked tube amp top plus marshal cabinet, so I can play those sounds  
with this little clarinet-like thing of metal and plastics. Very  
portable and good sounding but not quite as cool looking on stage as  
the top and cab with the strat ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
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