Re: Fripp - sound?New soundscape to download

["Tony K" <bigtonyk@gmail.com>]

>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...
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Get thee some Eventides.  

http://www.musicgearreview.com/article-display/2154.html

If you don't have a zillion dollars to spend, then I'd suggest one of the Roland GR synths, some kind of delay/loop pedal (Boss DD20 is a good choice) and an multi-effect with some nice reverbs.  Someone suggested the VH-1 and that's a good choice.  The Behringer Virtualizer is a cheap solution.  The Vortex is a great choice too.

Fripp also uses an Fernandes Sustainer system.

First I pick a nice shooshy synth patch, then I either use the delay set to a long delay with a very very long decay time, or a sample and hold looper (like a RC20XL).  Run that into a reverb (I use a Roland RSP550) unit. 

And off I go...

Tony

On 8/14/07, James Richmond <yahoogroups@jamesrichmond.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't know exactly how RF does it but my approach is to use a lot of finger vibrato to keep the note moving and two delay lines.
> One short one (with low feedback) and a longer one with higher feedback.
> 
> 
> On the front end I use a Fuzz Factory pedal and an octaver.
> 
> 
> I roll the tone and volume back on the guitar (to around 70%) and almost always use a telecaster with a neck pickup.
> If my finger vibrato starts to weaken then I dial the guitar volume up a bit.
> 
> 
> I love telecasters because of the metal neck pickup cover- you can tap it, scrape it and so all sorts of rhythmic stuff to it that sounds great.
> Pickup taps pitched down an octave sound like wood blocks.
> 
> 
> That is a starting point- there are a bunch of other boxes that I use as well- Lexicon vortex has some great sounds in it and I use a computer loaded with Reaktor when doing some live work.
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> 
> Jim Richmond
> 
> 
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 3:07 AM, Chris@jtc.de wrote:
> 
> 
> 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...
> 



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