Engineering Live Loopers

[darren perry <darrencperry@live.com>]

I'm a front of house sound engineer as well as using live looping in my 
own music. I've engineered live loopers before and wondered how people set 
up their outputs to the sound engineer, if you're lucky enough to have one 
at your gigs. Trying to engineer a stereo feed from a computer or looping 
device can be quite frustrating. I went through a stage (as I was playing 
and looping multiple instruments) of sending each instrument separately to 
the engineer, easy as I use Ableton. I felt that I couldn't mix the sound 
well enough from the stage to give a good sound to the audience so left 
the engineer to do what he was there for and sort that out for me.

Basically, do most people rely on sending a stereo output to the front of 
house sound desk? DO you mix your tracks live? Does anyone else send 
multiple outputs to give the engineer something to work with?

I'm looking into this as another small part to my research paper on 
Looping Technology and Live Looping.

Thanks

Darren
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