Could I ask which looper are you using for this?
nanix
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It is my own patch that I have been modifying and improving. When I have the neatest user interface, I could share it. There are 4 loop channels, each with independent playback speed and volume changes. No overdub yet
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So Here is something of mine, I use this “guitar setup” mainly to produce no-input noise, but you can also play guitar with these.
the name of the game is that Death By Audios “total sonic annihilation 2” which is a feedback loopper, makes your pedals do all kinds of crazy noises, and more pedals you put to the efx-chain, the better!
these are on top of a snare drum since I jammed with my drumkit and this setup!
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mbutz
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I sold my Grid and Fates to buy the headless Ibanez (already owned the Artist); totally happy with this equipement. Since around a year I am back into Jazz.
I really liked the Grid but did not really use it much; instead I felt like getting my hands dirty again with an old fashioned instrument like the guitar and revive my former Jazz history.
Also a very dear friend gave me a nice present for Xmas: Instead of selling it he gave me his Line 6 HX Stomp, which I am currently trying to become acquainted with.
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Jonny
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Nice, I’ve been revisiting my jazz roots as well. I used to have an AS200. What year is your Artist? I was glad to see that Ibanez brought back the castle style headstock recently with the Scofield models.
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mbutz
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It is an Ibanez Artist AS 200 from 1983. I think I bought it second hand but can’t have been played a lot…
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mheton
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That’s funny. I also sold my Grid and Arc because I was no longer able to program anything for them with max/msp and I didn’t want to go the Eurorack route.
Now I’m back studying jazz with Tim Miller online and Mick Goodrick’s books and I’m happy like I was in my Berklee days. Last weekend I picked up my Ibanez AS 200 again, which I haven’t played in 8 years, and it feels so good.
Strange how sometimes you go a whole circle
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mbutz
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Well, yes, somehow strange but otherwise kind of logical. The point where I took up the thread again I found this video, which kind of spelled out an idea I was long aware of but did not follow consequently. I do now.
Mick Goodrick: I still have a photocopy of this book (the book where it says in the chapter about space: this page is intenionally left blank) which must be around 40 years old.
Today there is so much material available online, especially on Youtube (lots of garbage and loads of good stuff). Sorry… this is going off-topic.
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The first guitar I bought was in high school in maybe 1990, from a friend. A garbage electric guitar with plastic strings and a built-in speaker. Then onto a pawn shop Strat copy once I got a part time job, then a Kramer Pacer, and in college my first “good” guitar - a Gibson SG that I still have. When Craigslist was very vibrant in the early 2000s, I basically bought any guitar that I knew I could flip for at least twice what I paid. At one point I had around 40-50 sitting around, and started to weed out the ones I didn’t really enjoy. With that strategy, my guitar collection had actually paid for itself. But then I got into the rabbit hole of pedals and inevitably modular synths. I still pull out the guitars now and then. My favorites are the SG and the EGC’s / Travis Bean.
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Whats the guitar in the first picture?
I had a Travis Bean bass in the early 80s. That thing was built like a tank! I should have hung onto it…
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The one that Buzz is balancing on his palm is an Electrical Guitar Company “King Buzzo” signature. I was with Buzz when he got his first EGC and I liked it so much I ordered one just like it. Then I bought the EGC wedge and the white aluminum double cut soon after. EGC also makes the modern Travis Beans.
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@noctambulance what a great story!! I’ve dreamt about buzz three times. in the most recent dream, he was trying to teach me a riff but I’d forgotten to plug in my guitar. rats.
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Those guys are old friends and I’ve opened for them many times playing modular synth, but I still have dreams where I’m playing with them as a second guitarist and don’t know any of the songs.
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How do you like the peluso ribbon? I’ve been looking for a pair of ribbons for drum overheads
Recovered my amphead, and painted the grills.
Loving this!
Just waiting on some chrome lettering to go on the grill to rechristen the Bugera 6262 as “Tropic Thunder”. Named by my drummer, haha.
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A-mazing. Love this so much.
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rycolos
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This seems like as good a place to ask as any…
Anyone have recommendations for solid online guitar courses? I’ve been playing for 15+ years but just feel very much stuck in the same pentatonic-shaped ruts. I’d really like to know the fretboard better and have a better handle over jazz-ish improvising. I’ve been listening to a ton of Jeff Parker, Bill Orcutt, and Bill Frisell lately and they’re really inspiring me to really take some steps forward with my skill level.
I’ve gone through the Fretboard Logic book and really dug it, but learn better with video.
Lessons with someone local would be ideal. Unfortunately, I live in the middle of nowhere so that’s not happening.
Would love any suggestions! I found this course on Reddit and it seems solid. I also really like Eric Haugen on YT and he has some courses on TrueFire that seem alright.
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Eric is such a good guy, I’m 1000% behind anything he does. He also doesn’t just rehash the same old thing as every other guitar bro. His lessons on Marc Ribot and David Rawlings added so much to my playing and took me in a whole new direction. We share a love of the weirder, more eccentric guitar styles and players.
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