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Re: out of tune loops



Howdy,
 I do believe that Tommy Iomi of Black Sabbath used that tuning(down to D) 
to achieve his signature sound.
Rig

--- On Fri, 9/4/09, scott hansen <evanpeewee@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: scott hansen <evanpeewee@yahoo.com>
> Subject: out of tune loops
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Date: Friday, September 4, 2009, 1:00 PM
> funny
> little moment this am before work:
> 
> i finished my newest guitar 2 days ago, and i still
> haven't gotten around to setting the intonation on it,
> strings are floppy, tuned a whole step low (to D), i was
> playing something, just sparse single string things and
> sliding into them, and for some reason it reminded me of the
> low-fi sort of garage rock things played w/ cheapo guitars,
> and i loop about 3 passages of the little riff, and then
> started playing over it, then i reverse it, and i do this
> for probably about 5 min. it sounded cool, but i didn't
> record it (i need to set up some mics in my studio!).
> when i finished i realized that i couldn't play any
> chords, b/c they would sound out of tune, but then i
> realized that i've been playing like this for 2 days
> now...and the sad thing is it still sounds like me, and it
> doesn't sound that much different when
>  i think i'm in tune....so maybe i'm regressing or
> something....
> it was sort of a weird realization this am...
> had to share...
> happy looping.
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