Looper Dooper; Hear what you think!

I’m going to change this as I’m a little over turning up each week all by myself. Of course this is my doing as I’ve been totally not doing any networking or advertising to have it be anything other than what it is.

But now I’m going to change things and move in a direction more attuned to what I actually want from this time I’ve got to do musics.

What I think is going to happen is a name change and a background where I put it out there that the space is available but I’ll do things by appointment with other players. Basically if someone gets the new flyer, yet to be done, and is interested in doing something with me, then we arrange a Wednesday to suit, then meet and do it.

And I’ll use this space to make those arrangements… or vitamin S’s monday gatherings.

I’m still doin it.

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Almost every week I’ve been goin’ along on the Wednesday night, I missed one completely workin’ up to the recent exhibition of artwork and another when they, the staff, want’d to close early so I eschewed the playing quite easily.

It’s a bit of a chore being alone and doin’ weird stuff but as much as thats a hurdle once I set up and start the music itself brings strength and some healthy learnin’ curves so I’m going to keep doin’ it.

I almost want to keep it to myself for that reason alone. It’s hard work that teaches me humility and bein’ brave at the same time and I like that kinda stuff.

But hopefully a few who’ve been interested, Joe, Kristin, Tom and John, will slowly come in to help alleviate my doubts and we can build this into something… what I don’t actually know, or even care, but it’ll be interesting nonetheless.

So it’s still on and Kristin has said she’ll be there with me this Wednesday the 24th of March 2010. I might rename this thing Looper Dooper!… when and if I ever get around to pushing it again with paper with scratches across ’em.

The 30th

Last night was good!

Sat about till nearly nine waiting and doing the crossword as some people were setup with their food down where I do my setup and after being told they were going to close early, 9.30, I decided to call it a night but on the way up to collect my gear… the people were leaving… so I changed my mind and got into it.

I’m still learning about the space and took stuff in to learn a little more and they all worked better than last time. The space, as in getting a sense of what one is doing… monitoring, is very unforgiving in the realm of bass and tends to reverberate into mudland and swamp very easily so any bass has to be stabby at best. At least in a monitoring space because as soon as you loop up something and walk about ten feet away, towards the entrance it all cleans up very nice… even the bass. The volume then tails off a bit as you get towards the steps then has a slight rise again, with a slight bass roll off as you get to the serving area on the ground floor. So any bass heavy stuff may work well in the space but you’d have to monitor the output at line level with headphones to see above the mush that occurs at the point of output. Maybe a small speaker at the steps being played back towards the end with a low pass on it might have enough cancelling power to make monitoring from source better? Who knows?
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Anyways, I had the sprung sheet of steel, a phaser, the boss delay and the boss Looper into my new amp, which when placed on the table and with the speaker projected slightly upwards at about 800mm above the table, I’ve finally got something that works quite well as a basis for making the sounds I like. Plus I’m finally starting to get a handle, or set of handles, on the delay and the looper and how to make them work for me. I sorta need the looper, in this context to fill things out but it’s complicated being several people ahead of time but I’m starting to get around it plus I’m backing off quite abit on the delay and using more as a weapon of fills as opposed to a filling up weapon if you get me.

I’d figured out a while back that I quite like having the delay on and off and often cutting it off before a phrase ended and also just after it begun… instead of leaving it on all the time which can get really monotonous… especially if it’s just left at the same speed with enough feedback to keep it jangling away incessantly.

One resonably big problem I’m having is that the mixture of the room and all the gear with loopers and delays mean the feedback note can be a bit of a hassle when it eventually starts ringing out. Just need an EQ pedal set at that narrow band so if it gets to be a hassle I can just stab it out before it gets to the delay… maybe not so simple and maybe I’ll send a letter to Boss telling them to put another knob on the delay… actually a single parametric would do so I could set the place, the width and the height and I’d be right. Be best in the delay loop itself but it’s all internal on those things and it’d be a major mission to isolate the feedback path even if I could find it.

Next gig for me is the bfm thing this sunday and hopefully some director or producer somewhere in the world of bfm listeners hears my squawking interminable and decides I’m just the right person to do soundtrack for his or her next movie… but this particular export will be live and full of inappropiate vocal farting and belching and never, oh never, an export killed, portioned and purloined, snap frozen and ready packaged for consumption. It ain’t the kea way is it?

On for the 30th…yes!

The 23rd went well. The 30th will be better.

No Rules on the radio!
Between 9am and midday on Bfm thanks to the lovely Silke!

Se the bfm site for details… they’ll be posted soonish I suppose.
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This is an amp… not exactly what I wanted when I started it, and on finishing I realised it, but a step in the right direction I guess.

Somewhere else to go and play mayhemish interludes.

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I’ll be there on the 23rd of December. Bring whatever you want and join in!
Theres only two power points upstairs so small extension cords and multi socket boxes are a kind of a must in your equipment needs and if you do come here then please leave a comment so I can get an E-mail list together.
The room isn’t so good and may even, eventually, prove to be inadequate to our purposes but until then, if it even occurs, equipment that has some tone control might be helpful and it has to be somewhat able to go above the noise floor inherent in the space which seems to almost have a slight vacuum to noise.

At Handmade Burgers, 256 Krd, the old Brazil, and come up the stairs.
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Found this on the net and thought it might be suitable to illustrate the sound problems this venue may entail.
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