David i gotta say this was like eating all the veggies the marrow the meat and the gravy, man this is what i need more of, you have taught me so much and still i learn everyday from the simplicity yet how amazing it sounds. Please keep doing these more and more. I would love to see video of your whole gig one day just to see how you keep them rolling. I have to admit that i have started using the kick drum trick of yours and its amazing how many songs i have been able to just jam along with that. Wow we never stop learning. Thanks buddy appreciate it hugely 👍🏻🍾🎸
aww thanks Wallace! It's something I've been thinking of (the whole gig idea), and also considering how to do a livestream with reasonable audio! That's so cool that you've been able to use that kick drum idea too!
I just got an RC 1 and you stated it right at the beginning of the video this is exactly the situation I keep coming across. I find a great song and there’s a bridge or there’s a chorus or there’s some other chord progression somewhere. Thank you for posting this
What a great voice, I’m glad I found this. I just bought a looper and I will be needing all the help I can get, I have been playing and singing for 40 years, never used a pedal before, but I’m excited to learn.
BROTHER! I have found my looping spirit animal within your videos!! Only two days of following a few instructions and tips/tricks from your awesome content, and I'm progressing further still with my looping! On top of that, the key you tend to sing in is PERFECT for my pitch and tone! Keep up being you
I got here looking for simple songs for my guitar students to play. They won’t be using a looper yet, but I loved what you said about leaving some space and not making the loop too busy.
You are a terrific teacher, I have been a piano, horns, keyboard player, guitarist for way to many years, and now I am learning looping, your videos and your talent, patience, humor, personality all make this easy to understand, plus I like your choice of music which also helps a lot. I notice you tune down 1/2 step, reason? I am trying to use guitar and synth, which necessitates matching both to pitch, just a little more challenge, no biggy. Just recently bought a headrush looper, thought it might be less of a learning curve than the new Boss for a newbie, so far working well. Appreciate the time and effort you put into creating your videos, they are great for sure. I live in central U.S. Paul
I just added “ The Joker” by Steve Miller band to my loop list. I try to loop 1 to 2 song per set. I’m a solo singer songwriter doing 1 to 3 hours shows. The joker is so simple I can sing over loop then jam out over it and really stretch the song even get the crowd singing along. Thank for the videos love your style
Hi, thanks for these top 5 Loops. I am a total beginner and would of a video with one one super simple loop with detailed description. Looping is impressive and how you play and sing rocks!!!
Lots of people (including Paul Davids, who is very good as you say) demonstrate the features and possibilities of loopers, but not many demonstrate putting an entire song together and making it sound good. You are a looper ninja, David! Love the guitar work on all these songs and especially Dancing in the Moonlight, by the way. Sheer class.
David you are the consummate professional! I absolutely love your voice and your videos. Hope to become more comfortable with live looping at some point.
One of the best performance meets tech videos ever! And...I have the same amp in this video...a Compact Mobile 2 by AR. Battery powered with insanely good sound. I highly recommend them.
Really enjoyed this. Nice work man. I’ve been looking for some more songs to loop with. I don’t sing so playing a melody line is cool. Thanks for sharing.
Dude, so glad I've found you 😊 just picked up an r30 and been struggling 😕 you've inspired me to get looping, stealing it! Hell yeah 😂😂😂 look forward to the next one, liked and subbed 👍🏼😊
What a tasteful player. Great job! Our phones are listening to us tho. This looping thing has been on my mind a lot lately and here you are with exactly what I need. Anyway, I’ve made my living playing the last 15 years and started to add the looper but I was able to stay booked without it so I got lazy 🙄 I want to add it now and this is perfect for me to figure it out. Thank you for such a smart way to teach and help others learn.
The diminished note that breaks up the monotony of the loop. Monotony is the enemy when looping. So anything we can do to break that up will translate well. Great touch.
Thanks David. Watched all of your videos and you’ve given me more inspiration. I’m parking my Pigtronix Infinity and getting my VL3 back out of the box👍 Keep up the tutorials; they give a technophobe like me a reason to keep going😂
Yeah I have to agree with you. I just got a looper pedal because it’s harder for me to sing and play at the same time. Keep at it man. Looper pedals are starting to be my addiction😂
I'm a vocalist looking to get back into the music scene maybe even get back into gigging around one day.... but I need to practice as I am only a singer/ percussionist... I can play guitar but not very well. Thank you so much for this video it is going to help so much!
heya! Thanks for the comment! Great to hear you're getting back into it and sharing your voice :) Happy practising and keep the end goal/picture in mind - it'll happen how you picture it!
Thanks so much.. I am looking to evolve solo/duet performances with loop and love the vocals you bring to them (Obviously my aim is Saturday, Sunday afternoon sessions at pubs).
You seem such a sweet and nice guy! I wish to be a street musician one day, I would love to play more songs with my loop pedal. Thank you so much, it means a lot :)
Hi David my looper is built into my Boss acoustic amp, I’ve not even used it yet but that’s about to change 😁 I thought it would have a limited use because as you said most songs have a chorus and bridge, but watching you use one, I could see how much fun it would be, it frees you up so you can embellish a bit more, and I hope I become good at using a looper LOL so thanks a bunch 😘
Great video David. Your natural talent is astounding. One question I would like to ask you about looping. When you you have different progressions in a song like in the verse, chorus, bridge, have you ever used the memory function on the looper to pre-record progressions to switch in between verse, chorus and bridge? I am new to looping but I am practicing doing this with a Boss RC-3 and using a NUX NMP-2 Dual foot switch to seamlessly change up or down between the memory. I just wanted to get your opinion on this technique. I don’t see many people doing this.
Hi Michael! Great question and that's a great way to tackle changes in the songs - especially when the verse/chorus/bridge are all different etc. It's a great way to do it, the only downside being that you have to pre-record all of those parts as you mentioned. For me since everything is done live it's not really an option, but it's a really good way to be able to have a bigger sound through all of those sections 👌
You are awesome. I wish I was 1 milion person! so I could subscribe to you and support you! But im just one! So.. sry about that! Keep it up dude❤❤❤cheers.
Cool video! I just subscribed. Hoping you can help me with the most basic looper question. I’ve never used any type of pedal before and mainly play acoustic. Do you have a pedal that allows you to record multiple things and stack them on top of each other? Like chords first, then your hands drumming, then base notes, etc. that you combine together before solo-ing and singing on top of that? How does the pedal pick up you drumming on the guitar but not your singing? Can any of this be done on an acoustic without a cable hookup?
heya! Thanks! :) That is exactly what my loop pedal does - it records what I do on the guitar only, and I can make multiple layers like you suggested - chords first, then drumming on the guitar, then the bass etc. My acoustic guitar has a pick up under the bridge, so the signal goes from that into the loop pedal. The other way to do it is to have a microphone plugged into the loop pedal, and aimed towards your guitar to pick up the sound, but this will pick up some of your vocal in it as well, so you would need to record the loop before starting to sing! hope that helps!
Think I'll do this same key get brave add a bridge just maybe to harmonize with myself avoiding the built in harmonizes from boss to keep a purely live performance
Thanks Marko! I remember having this issue when I first started looping - much more common if you're playing somewhere with a wooden floor as it often resonates much more. You could try putting a bit of carpet under your loop pedal (just an idea), to help absorb a little bit of the sound - but I don't think it ever leaves completely, Ideally the click can be right on the beat so it sounds like a natural part of your loop. Maybe that helps? (also maybe not of course!)
David Shanhun thanks a lot. I will test your ideas. I guess it works for me also. I’m just starting and exploring my new toy. But I cant do it very often because my daughter loves this thing so much :)
I would like to get some equipment suggestions like what sort of microphones are good and ones to stay away from?. Any good mics under $200?. Any hardware to assist vocals ie effects pedals and active monitor selecton?. Ive seen beer garden performers using laptops for all the backing track stuff and just adding their own guitar and vocals, Is there special software for this?.
Heya! Ableton and Quantiloop are probably the most common software for backing track or looping from software. There are quite a few other options though. I would recommend TC helicon's vocal pedals - there are quite a few. My go to for the tone and compression + reverb + harmony option is this - amzn.to/2YVXWyC. Are you looking for a good mic for performing live, or for recording at home?
Hi David, Like your style really good I was always a bit confused with loops covering whole songs with more chords or even advanced chord structures And always thought of it as a problem area like you have explained . There is a way around everything if you work on it. What is a good looper with say two channels Thanks Les.
an under the bridge pickup on my guitar. Each guitar is very different in terms of what sound we can get out of them for percussion though! Sorry that you're not finding a good way to get a good sound from yours so far!
Hey David! Love all the loop tutorials...thanks very much for these song suggestions! Question for you...like you, I use a TC Helicon VL3 (Extreme) for live looping at gigs. I struggle with monitoring, and noticed you wearing an in ear monitor in some of your videos. I've recently tried in ear monitors, mixed using the TC mixer settings in the VL3X. It offered some nice features (like a click track for just me), but I felt the mix quality was pretty poor, and I had to return to dragging along a floor stage monitor. Could you offer any advice? Do you feed in ears from your VL3? Are you feeding just a click track, or a full mix at live performances? Do you have a preferred brand? Or perhaps, are you sending out to a mixer and then back to the in ears? Thanks in advance for anything you can offer...and for continuing to make great videos!!
Hey Kevin! most welcome and hope they're useful to you my friend! I have the cheapest Shure IEMS - amzn.to/2XQHAay - and while they aren't the greatest for sound quality, they do a great job for two things - one is blocking out external sound at gigs so I can hear my timing for looping much more clearly, and then secondly whilst recording allow me to get a nice clean signal by listening in ear rather than having bleed from live amps etc. Getting on to monitoring direct from the VL3 and VL3x - the sound you get is pretty thin for lack of a better description. I get a much nicer sound by monitoring from my desk headphone output if it's a solo show - which also usually gives you the option to tweak the EQ a bit to cater even to cheaper in ear monitors like these ones, without necessarily affecting your FOH sound. Have a love/hate relationship with IEM's though depending on the show - there's this beautiful thing of losing yourself in the music with a nice mix directly in your ears, and I also feel a loss of connections if I wear both ears in for smaller audiences - so you'll often see me at live shows with only one ear in, or using a stage monitor instead of IEMS. Hope that's useful food for thought!
Tons of useful information here David! Thanks very much for the response... I'll have to think it over some more. As you said, there's that point on stage where you get blissfully lost in the music. From my full band days, I'm used to experiencing that delivered via a nice, full stage floor monitor. So in ear, with all of its attractive qualities, is proving hard for me to switch to. But I may have to give it another go. Thanks again!!!
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David i gotta say this was like eating all the veggies the marrow the meat and the gravy, man this is what i need more of, you have taught me so much and still i learn everyday from the simplicity yet how amazing it sounds. Please keep doing these more and more. I would love to see video of your whole gig one day just to see how you keep them rolling. I have to admit that i have started using the kick drum trick of yours and its amazing how many songs i have been able to just jam along with that. Wow we never stop learning. Thanks buddy appreciate it hugely 👍🏻🍾🎸
aww thanks Wallace! It's something I've been thinking of (the whole gig idea), and also considering how to do a livestream with reasonable audio! That's so cool that you've been able to use that kick drum idea too!
I just got an RC 1 and you stated it right at the beginning of the video this is exactly the situation I keep coming across. I find a great song and there’s a bridge or there’s a chorus or there’s some other chord progression somewhere. Thank you for posting this
3:52...LOVE IT! I always enjoy your videos! Thanks for sharing the looping ideas.
aww thanks! hehe. bit of fun sneaking that in there :)
Thank you! Appreciate the insight and straightforward tips. Really good stuff.
What a great voice, I’m glad I found this. I just bought a looper and I will be needing all the help I can get, I have been playing and singing for 40 years, never used a pedal before, but I’m excited to learn.
BROTHER! I have found my looping spirit animal within your videos!!
Only two days of following a few instructions and tips/tricks from your awesome content, and I'm progressing further still with my looping!
On top of that, the key you tend to sing in is PERFECT for my pitch and tone!
Keep up being you
dude I love this comment! Thanks so much and stoked to hear your progress!
This kind of videos makes the difference! Thank you so MUCH🤘🏼❤️ you rock
you're most welcome! Stoked it was useful for you :)
Thats a really sweet guitar. These are the best looping tutorials ive seen anywhere.
Great music as well.
Thank you so much 😊
First video I've watched of you but you have loads of talent, great job, just liked and subbed
thanks so much and welcome to the channel 😊
Ditto
So inspiring !!..thaks ..you are talented and you have a beautiful voice ..very pleasant to listen to..Bravo
Really digging the Loopers out there helping each other out! Great job
sharing the love man! 😊
Beautiful loops and great ideas! And what a voice, keep up!
Thankyou! ❤️
That was really fun to watch!!
Loving these videos! Thank you
wow you can really tell how passionate you are about music!! this is a super helpful video thanku!!!
Thanks ☺️☺️ happy playing and experimenting with some loops!
Ooh you have become my inspiration and teacher.. Thanks I can't wait to try out gigs now... Thanks David
awesome!
I got here looking for simple songs for my guitar students to play. They won’t be using a looper yet, but I loved what you said about leaving some space and not making the loop too busy.
Thanks! Hope you got some ideas potentially for them or some inspiration of some sort! 😊
You are a terrific teacher, I have been a piano, horns, keyboard player, guitarist for way to many years, and now I am learning looping, your videos and your talent, patience, humor, personality all make this easy to understand, plus I like your choice of music which also helps a lot. I notice you tune down 1/2 step, reason? I am trying to use guitar and synth, which necessitates matching both to pitch, just a little more challenge, no biggy. Just recently bought a headrush looper, thought it might be less of a learning curve than the new Boss for a newbie, so far working well. Appreciate the time and effort you put into creating your videos, they are great for sure. I live in central U.S. Paul
I just added “ The Joker” by Steve Miller band to my loop list. I try to loop 1 to 2 song per set. I’m a solo singer songwriter doing 1 to 3 hours shows. The joker is so simple I can sing over loop then jam out over it and really stretch the song even get the crowd singing along. Thank for the videos love your style
Awesome Donovan! Glad you enjoyed the vid! :)
Just what I been looking for, best looping tuitions I found. Just bought the donner circle looper and you're a great help.
thanks. Hope you're having fun with it!
Great work David...Love what you are doing!
Thanks Jay Cee!
Great little video. Thanks so much for sharing!
welcome! and thanks!
Hi, thanks for these top 5 Loops.
I am a total beginner and would of a video with one one super simple loop with detailed description.
Looping is impressive and how you play and sing rocks!!!
you're great man! keep it up, amazing work🔥💯💯
Thankyou! 😊
Just incredible..... love what you are doing
Thankyou!
Lots of people (including Paul Davids, who is very good as you say) demonstrate the features and possibilities of loopers, but not many demonstrate putting an entire song together and making it sound good. You are a looper ninja, David! Love the guitar work on all these songs and especially Dancing in the Moonlight, by the way. Sheer class.
Thankyou! :) appreciate this! 😊
You got it, we see loads of unboxing and reviewing but not how to make the most of it..
Dude it’s like you are psychic... this week has been all about refreshing my set list and there go 5 additions.
Great work man.
oh awesome man! I'm so glad these have come up at the perfect time for you!
Great tutorial thanks very much, loving the song choices too
Thanks Duke!
David you are the consummate professional! I absolutely love your voice and your videos. Hope to become more comfortable with live looping at some point.
Thanks so much for this comment ❤️ Happy loop practising! 👌
Another great video. What a pleasant voice to listen to. 🍀
aw thanks Kristi! :)
One of the best performance meets tech videos ever! And...I have the same amp in this video...a Compact Mobile 2 by AR. Battery powered with insanely good sound. I highly recommend them.
thanks so much Steve! yeah, AER amps are awesome eh!
great tips, love the diminish chord tip.
Cool! Have fun with it! :)
Very impressive indeed, David! Well done, you! *Subscribed*
Thanks! Welcome to the channel! ❤️
Really enjoyed this. Nice work man. I’ve been looking for some more songs to loop with. I don’t sing so playing a melody line is cool. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers Kyle! I think you'll be able to create a bunch of cool loops then play the melody on guitar over them and create some nice options!
Great tips there David, thanks very much
Thanks Dave! Glad you got some useful stuff out of it!
Thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining!
Thankyou!
Really very helpful, thanks so much!
cheers Tim! happy playing 😊
Dude, so glad I've found you 😊 just picked up an r30 and been struggling 😕 you've inspired me to get looping, stealing it! Hell yeah 😂😂😂 look forward to the next one, liked and subbed 👍🏼😊
welcome to the channel! 😊 Hope you find some new joy with the RC-30 - and YES... please steal any and all of these that you enjoy!
Never seen that G/D chord before.. wow-
Thx brother!
What a tasteful player. Great job! Our phones are listening to us tho. This looping thing has been on my mind a lot lately and here you are with exactly what I need. Anyway, I’ve made my living playing the last 15 years and started to add the looper but I was able to stay booked without it so I got lazy 🙄
I want to add it now and this is perfect for me to figure it out. Thank you for such a smart way to teach and help others learn.
ah love this. And thankyou! Hope you have fun with your looping journey!
such a good video. deserve so much more recognition mate! dont worry them voice cracks go away after a while, dont worry :))
Thanks so much Cody! 😊
Awesome... and a really NICE voice! 👍👍
Thankyou!
The diminished note that breaks up the monotony of the loop. Monotony is the enemy when looping. So anything we can do to break that up will translate well. Great touch.
Fantastic tutorial and great sound!
Thanks Steve!
Fantastic tutorial, Thank you .
😊 yay!
Thank you!🙏🏻
most welcome!
the man bro! thank you for this!
most welcome! Have fun with them!
Thanks David.
Watched all of your videos and you’ve given me more inspiration.
I’m parking my Pigtronix Infinity and getting my VL3 back out of the box👍
Keep up the tutorials; they give a technophobe like me a reason to keep going😂
Thats awesome Mike! Love that you're inspired to create again from this! :)
Nice phrasing on the guitar and great voice man!
Thank you brother 🥰
Great video thanks. Love your version of shotgun, you have a nice singing voice.
Thankyou 😊
you play your guitar so smooth thanks for your help
Thanks Ralph!
Back to basics for me after spending weeks on rc 600 set ups...now what...this works again
Just found your channel but i do love your work! New subscriber in me and i cant wait to see what you give us next!
thanks for subscribing! ...might have to do another looping song combo eh
@@davidshanhun
Tear it up brotha!!
I’ll be there for sure!
Was not expecting that voice, very inspired by you my friend
thanks! 😊
Yeah I have to agree with you. I just got a looper pedal because it’s harder for me to sing and play at the same time. Keep at it man. Looper pedals are starting to be my addiction😂
joy to you man. I wish i could sing. my guitar has to be my voice. thanks !! I'm dancing in the moonlight right now!
thanks for this comment! made me smile to receive this!
cool lesson, thank you for this. just subscribed to your channel
Thanks! Hope you dig the videos and glad you enjoyed this one! :)
That fast forward bit jus got you another sub🤣🤣
DUDE YOU ARE AWESOME
Thank you ☺️
You sound so good! My favorite is « Dancing in the moonlight».
The order of your set up is guitar, Voicelive and amp?
thanks Dov! Yes, guitar into the VL3, then into the amp :)
Thanks!
Cheers Steve much appreciated! Have fun with the tunes!
I'm a vocalist looking to get back into the music scene maybe even get back into gigging around one day.... but I need to practice as I am only a singer/ percussionist... I can play guitar but not very well. Thank you so much for this video it is going to help so much!
heya! Thanks for the comment! Great to hear you're getting back into it and sharing your voice :) Happy practising and keep the end goal/picture in mind - it'll happen how you picture it!
Great stuff
Thanks Peter
I like your Looping-Tutorials very much. Greetings from Germany and... more of them please. Thank you.
Thanks so much! Vie Gehts and Hi from New Zealand!
@@davidshanhun 😆 I'm fine. Wie geht's from the other side of the planet.
@@22UNO22 oooh I need to improve my spelling hehe! :)
@@davidshanhun Oh my english could be better. But the best language is our Music. 😉
@@22UNO22 haha yes! Lets jam together sometime haha! I would love to get to Germany one day :)
Thanks so much.. I am looking to evolve solo/duet performances with loop and love the vocals you bring to them (Obviously my aim is Saturday, Sunday afternoon sessions at pubs).
Awesome! Hope this gave you a few new tunes to add!
This is a flex this man is way to good
Awesome vocals bro
Love the face overs you kill me!
haha! Cheers!
Great song haven’t heard of them but great
Thanks Larry!
You seem such a sweet and nice guy! I wish to be a street musician one day, I would love to play more songs with my loop pedal.
Thank you so much, it means a lot :)
Thank you so much! This is awesome to hear! I hope these give you some new ideas or songs to add to your loop pedal setlist!
Love it
Thanks Martin!
You said this would be easy.. Pro level ✌️
yeah... apologies for that - I got a couple of comments that I made it too hard tbh. Appreciate the feedback 👌
Excellent
thanks ☺️
I am so lost with my looper but it looks like it's possible :D thank youuu
haha it's a fun journey!
you are the best thks David i ll remove the dust from my looper and start playing
Thanks! Yay! Have fun looping again!
Also, I love your voice. Not overdone, just right.
Thanks Eric!
Amazing
thankyou ❤️
Have just seen you for the first time, so good, l definitely hit that subscribe button
And just as well , coz I suck at using my looper. 💃🎶💃🎶
aww thanks Anne and welcome to the tribe! Hope you get some cool new looping skills from the vids! :) What looper do you have?
Hi David my looper is built into my Boss acoustic amp, I’ve not even used it yet but that’s about to change 😁 I thought it would have a limited use because as you said most songs have a chorus and bridge, but watching you use one, I could see how much fun it would be, it frees you up so you can embellish a bit more, and I hope I become good at using a looper LOL so thanks a bunch 😘
@@annie4971 that's awesome! Let me know how you get on. Hope it opens up a lot of fun for you!
Great video David. Your natural talent is astounding. One question I would like to ask you about looping. When you you have different progressions in a song like in the verse, chorus, bridge, have you ever used the memory function on the looper to pre-record progressions to switch in between verse, chorus and bridge? I am new to looping but I am practicing doing this with a Boss RC-3 and using a NUX NMP-2 Dual foot switch to seamlessly change up or down between the memory. I just wanted to get your opinion on this technique. I don’t see many people doing this.
Hi Michael! Great question and that's a great way to tackle changes in the songs - especially when the verse/chorus/bridge are all different etc. It's a great way to do it, the only downside being that you have to pre-record all of those parts as you mentioned. For me since everything is done live it's not really an option, but it's a really good way to be able to have a bigger sound through all of those sections 👌
Not exactly what I’m looking for, but very fine work regardless. 👍🏼
cheers! All the best with your search!
beautifull.
Thank you 😊
God Job Sir.
Thanks Scott!
Can you do a tut in Dancing in the Moonlight ...Just Love this one
Time is cool!
😍
Awesome mate, holy ahit your voice, do you have Spotify?
Wow. Your version of hot sun is soon much better than the orig. Thanks for the inspiration dude.
Thank you ❤️
My friend i love all your videos! May i know the model of your Takamine? Thanks a lot for so many good videos
Thanks so much! The Takamine is an ND15c. Most welcome for the videos and glad you enjoy them!
You are awesome. I wish I was 1 milion person! so I could subscribe to you and support you! But im just one! So.. sry about that! Keep it up dude❤❤❤cheers.
aww thank you! Appreciate your support and subscribing!
Very nice. I have a question:what kind of guitar pickup is better? Piezo, pick or trasductor? Which do you use? Thanks
Cool video! I just subscribed. Hoping you can help me with the most basic looper question. I’ve never used any type of pedal before and mainly play acoustic. Do you have a pedal that allows you to record multiple things and stack them on top of each other? Like chords first, then your hands drumming, then base notes, etc. that you combine together before solo-ing and singing on top of that? How does the pedal pick up you drumming on the guitar but not your singing? Can any of this be done on an acoustic without a cable hookup?
heya! Thanks! :) That is exactly what my loop pedal does - it records what I do on the guitar only, and I can make multiple layers like you suggested - chords first, then drumming on the guitar, then the bass etc. My acoustic guitar has a pick up under the bridge, so the signal goes from that into the loop pedal. The other way to do it is to have a microphone plugged into the loop pedal, and aimed towards your guitar to pick up the sound, but this will pick up some of your vocal in it as well, so you would need to record the loop before starting to sing! hope that helps!
Think I'll do this same key get brave add a bridge just maybe to harmonize with myself avoiding the built in harmonizes from boss to keep a purely live performance
You're a saint
aww thanks! hope the tunes are useful to you! :)
Great tutorial! Can you tell how to avoid pedal click sounds coming through the microphone? Is there any special trick?
Thanks Marko! I remember having this issue when I first started looping - much more common if you're playing somewhere with a wooden floor as it often resonates much more. You could try putting a bit of carpet under your loop pedal (just an idea), to help absorb a little bit of the sound - but I don't think it ever leaves completely, Ideally the click can be right on the beat so it sounds like a natural part of your loop. Maybe that helps? (also maybe not of course!)
David Shanhun thanks a lot. I will test your ideas. I guess it works for me also. I’m just starting and exploring my new toy. But I cant do it very often because my daughter loves this thing so much :)
@@MarkoKarja_SlapAsSound haha good that you are both enjoying it then!
what model guitar is that David? looks nice and sounds great!
thanks! It's a Takamine ND-15c. :)
I would like to get some equipment suggestions like what sort of microphones are good and ones to stay away from?. Any good mics under $200?. Any hardware to assist vocals ie effects pedals and active monitor selecton?.
Ive seen beer garden performers using laptops for all the backing track stuff and just adding their own guitar and vocals, Is there special software for this?.
Heya! Ableton and Quantiloop are probably the most common software for backing track or looping from software. There are quite a few other options though. I would recommend TC helicon's vocal pedals - there are quite a few. My go to for the tone and compression + reverb + harmony option is this - amzn.to/2YVXWyC. Are you looking for a good mic for performing live, or for recording at home?
Hi David, Like your style really good I was always a bit confused with loops covering whole songs with more chords or even advanced chord structures And always thought of it as a problem area like you have explained . There is a way around everything if you work on it. What is a good looper with say two channels Thanks Les.
hey Les. My favourite looper with two channels was the ditto x4, straight forward, with a few cool fx tools to play with also.
No David !accidently touched something and didn’t know how to remove it so just. Pressed send, 😂apologies,keep up the good work!
oh haha! Love it. hehe. thanks Philip!
what type of a PU do you have since you can do the percussion part on your guitar, do not work on my piezo :(
an under the bridge pickup on my guitar. Each guitar is very different in terms of what sound we can get out of them for percussion though! Sorry that you're not finding a good way to get a good sound from yours so far!
Id like to do the live session for the money it would be worth it..just not sure of time frame im here in BOSTON
Hey David! Love all the loop tutorials...thanks very much for these song suggestions! Question for you...like you, I use a TC Helicon VL3 (Extreme) for live looping at gigs. I struggle with monitoring, and noticed you wearing an in ear monitor in some of your videos. I've recently tried in ear monitors, mixed using the TC mixer settings in the VL3X. It offered some nice features (like a click track for just me), but I felt the mix quality was pretty poor, and I had to return to dragging along a floor stage monitor. Could you offer any advice? Do you feed in ears from your VL3? Are you feeding just a click track, or a full mix at live performances? Do you have a preferred brand? Or perhaps, are you sending out to a mixer and then back to the in ears? Thanks in advance for anything you can offer...and for continuing to make great videos!!
Hey Kevin! most welcome and hope they're useful to you my friend! I have the cheapest Shure IEMS - amzn.to/2XQHAay - and while they aren't the greatest for sound quality, they do a great job for two things - one is blocking out external sound at gigs so I can hear my timing for looping much more clearly, and then secondly whilst recording allow me to get a nice clean signal by listening in ear rather than having bleed from live amps etc.
Getting on to monitoring direct from the VL3 and VL3x - the sound you get is pretty thin for lack of a better description. I get a much nicer sound by monitoring from my desk headphone output if it's a solo show - which also usually gives you the option to tweak the EQ a bit to cater even to cheaper in ear monitors like these ones, without necessarily affecting your FOH sound.
Have a love/hate relationship with IEM's though depending on the show - there's this beautiful thing of losing yourself in the music with a nice mix directly in your ears, and I also feel a loss of connections if I wear both ears in for smaller audiences - so you'll often see me at live shows with only one ear in, or using a stage monitor instead of IEMS. Hope that's useful food for thought!
Tons of useful information here David! Thanks very much for the response... I'll have to think it over some more. As you said, there's that point on stage where you get blissfully lost in the music. From my full band days, I'm used to experiencing that delivered via a nice, full stage floor monitor. So in ear, with all of its attractive qualities, is proving hard for me to switch to. But I may have to give it another go. Thanks again!!!