Re: Cleaning the Rang-was Re: What's the best vocal looper to buy for live looping

[K D Patten <kdpatten@yahoo.com>]

thank you for your response...i have another rang that i put in the chain same settings , same placement....no noise....i think i have a bum rang...guess may be I'm going to have to work on this one...thank for you input...kyle

Michael Plishka <mike@michaelplishka.com> wrote:

I was seriously tempted to do a hardware tweak and change capacitors to polyester instead of electrolytic (which I think would be worth a try regardless) but instead I always messed around with the gain and the setting switch to get the best sound.  I EQ and amplify a smidge coming off the guitar so that helps prevent distortion as well.

 

It also is IMPERATIVE to make sure there are no grounding issues.  If there is anything else powered in your setup, you can end up with hissing noise from ground loops as well.  I had extra wiring to make sure I was grounded in my practice room and that was the only way to get rid of the hiss.  When I confronted the makers of it they recommended your solution but I was worried about the tone being messed up as well.

 

And finally, a cleaning of the innards seems to help.

 

There is a knife edge where it seems the boomerang functions quietly and wonderfully, and it seems that every day it's  a new cutlery set. 

 

That's why I'm an EDP guy.  If they put a roller volume on the EDP and made it for variable feedback it'd be AWESOME! 

 

Hope this helps!

 

Plish

----- Original Message -----

From: K D Patten

To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:59 PM

Subject: Re: What's the best vocal looper to buy for live looping

how'd ya tweek it mike?

mike@michaelplishka.com wrote:

. The boomerang was cool but I had to tweak it to
get a cleaner sound