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stereo
It was my not my intent to diss the use of stereo, For crying out loud
guys, I use stereo all the time, the recent recordings I've been doing
are actually using two separate rigs in stereo recorded
simultaneously. But when I do a gig , often times I am not offered the
luxury of either a stereo house sound or stereo monitors. If I'm
playing solo and bringing my stereo pa, I might be forced to aim on
speaker out and on on the floor facing back at me. In fact it has
been my experience that stereo is usually the exception not the norm,
in live sound systems. So what do I do now that I don't have my
precious stereo security blanket? I use different delays in series
set to different beat values to create the illusion of strereo
imaging. It may not fullfill all of you stereo experts ear candy needs
but it works for me in real world situations where stereo is not
available. Obviously if you always have the luxury of stereo when you
play live this point is moot, but I don't . Also I was getting at an
underlying issue that I didn't really clarify but is something I've
had on my mind recently, and that is I'm going through a personal
reavaluation in my own life about what is really necessary to create
music and what is not. Over the summer I did 20 gigs with an RnB
singer friend of mine where we had so little set space for gear that I
could only bring one amp. Now for the last 10 years or so my live band
rig has always included two tube amps, in stereo split from my
fulltone chorus. But over the course of several gigs, though I missed
the vox amp and its sublime tremolo, I realized it wasn't essential to
playing well and having a good experience. I've had the same epiphany
about loopers lately. My looping has been refined to fewer and fewer
tracks and a new acoustic duo project I'm putting together will have
some looping, but it will probably be simplified to a pair of simple
loopers (we'll be using 2 LP-2's for syncing to each other). The idea
is that we will use loops very sparingly and concentrate I writing
material that doesn't even need looping to be delivered. The overall
feeling I have had , is that technology needs to take a backseat so
that I can get back to what for me is most essential , and that is
writing good music.
Bill
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