RE: Fripp - sound?New soundscape to download

["Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I'm not sure exactly which of his sounds you're looking for, but a cheaper
solution to the sustainiac is a good old Ebow.  Make sure you've got a real
or virtual volume pedal before your echo/reverb but after your
fuzz/distortion.  Add a harmonizer that's got a way to control pitch and
feedback in real time (a midi control pedal will probably be needed) and 
you
are on your way.  The Boss VH-1 (which I always promote) can do most of
these things and can be found cheap on ebay. $200 or so.

-----Original Message-----
From: Per Boysen [mailto:perboysen@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:47 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Fripp - sound?New soundscape to download 

On 14 aug 2007, at 09.07, Chris@jtc.de wrote:

> Hi,
> QUESTION: Does anyone know how I can get a similar etheric, spheric  
> sound like FRIPP, when
> he is doing his soundscapes. Sure he uses a lot of processors and  
> devices. But maybe
> someone knows how to get it in a quite cheap way. I am really  
> interested in this at the moment.
> Doesn´t use rhythms and loops that much...


Hi Christo,

Try playing with a Les Paul and use a Big Muff fuzz box. Oh... and  
play with the neck pick-up. You may also experiment with turning down  
the high frequencies, either by rolling off the top on the Big Muff  
or by the tone knob on the Les Paul, or a combination. The fuzz box  
will treat the signal differently depending on the guitars tone knob  
setting.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se (Swedish)
www.looproom.com (international)