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Re: First post - newbie advice wanted




Hi Rhod,
The Digitech Jamman might be what you want as it stores loops and you can build a backing band. You can use several memory cards also for different sets. The reason I don't use one is that it's not for building a song live. You have to stop it and "save" before going to the next loop. If you build your song catalog up ahead of time then it would probably do what you want. Once saved you can move forward and back through the different loops. You can add to these live but I'm not sure if you can then move to the next loop before saving again. I play improv unstructured stuff so I need feedback (loops fading) so I use other loopers (Boss DD 20, EH 2880). I would be sure and try one out if possible. And the optional footswitch is essential. There is some good stuff on it at
 
happy looping,
 
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: Rhod Evans
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 8:49 AM
Subject: First post - newbie advice wanted

Hi all

I hope you'll bear with me as I explain the advice I need...

I have been playing in bands (mostly rock and blues) for more years than I want to recall ( 3 decades plus) but after a fall out with a couple of members of my recent band I've decided to sod 'em and go solo.  I have a good rock/blues voice (I've been compared to Paul Rogers of Free, which is very flattering but I'll never be THAT good!).  I'm also reasonably competent on guitar, so my idea is to have drum sample and possibly bass midi backing, then play rhythm, lead and sing over the top of it.  I was going to use Ableton Live for this with a Laptop, but it seems ridiculously complicated for the simple and gritty style of music I'm aiming for - I also play bottleneck, so there will definitely be a bluesy bias.

Then I discovered the Jamman, and that seems ideal - pre-record drum and bass loops in LIVE, download to the Jamman, then on stage play and record rhythm guitar verse/chorus whilst singing over the top of it, then loop and play lead guitar, harmonica or whatever and sing over the top of it.

However I notice that most of you seem to prefer the Echoplex.  Am I missing something here?  As far as I can tell the Echoplex doesn't have the ability to download pre-recorded loops (no way of storing them?) so I would be severely at a disadvantage - how it be possible to get 3 sets worth of prepared music onto it?  I'm not worried about the cost - it's more important that I get the right kit, as I have gigs waiting.

Any advice on which you think I should go for would be much appreciated.  Also any thoughts on the practicality or otherwise of my idea.

Thanks

For info, I also have a PA, 12 input mixer, Fender guitar amp, 2 guitars, pedals etc, and a TC Helicon 'VoiceLive' which is a vocal processor able to produce harmonies on the fly and which has reverb, compression, noise gate etc.