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Re: stereo
Hear, hear.
Here, here.
Thanks Bill that came at a good time.
Andy Owens
1-800-AndyOwens
Sent from my iPhone
So the typing might not be my best!
On Jan 23, 2011, at 11:55 AM, "William Walker" <billwalker@baymoon.com>
wrote:
> 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
>
- References:
- stereo
- From: William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com>