On Looping: Composition and Arrangement with Blooper's Repeat and Layer controls.
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- Two of the features of this pedal that have the ability to go very deep is the Layer and Repeat controls. In this episode I'll explore the power of using these knobs to create a sense of arrangement, composition, and transition in your looping.
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Excellent videos. I’m a highly experienced looper too, but the actual ‘philosophy’ of looping seems rarely discussed on the internet.
Great!. I´ll be waiting anther Blooper Looping video. Please, we want more!
More coming! Also, if you subscribe to my email list at danphelps.com, there's usually some bonus insight in my weekly email.
Great information and demonstration, as always. I have to chuckle, though, when you use Knobs’ opening guitar notes at the start of your video 😂 Brilliant touch.
Jeffrey Kirn Ha! Completely coincidental! Or subliminal!
Dan Phelps 😂 I much prefer to imagine you did it to be clever, Dan
As per usual, the less I say, the smarter I seem.
@@oceanographic what do you think of the idea of using a pitch shifter to change the loop after the loop has been made? And also the idea of effects boxes in general positioned after the looper?
@@sat1241 I'm a big proponent of having some effects after the looper. I think it ties the dry guitar and looped sounds together, give you an opportunity to change or evolve the loop, and also gives you some options for creating transitions in and out of different loop ideas...I haven't messed around specifically with using a pitch shifter to change the pitch of the loop, but I know David Torn does that in his setup.
Your video skills are up there with your looping/guitar skills :)
Great work, young man! My mad scientist questions:
1) If you overdub with the layers knob all the way down for a while, will you not hear the overdubs until you then bring the layers knob back up?
2) Does the layers knob only deal with overdubs as "layered events," or does it treat changes in the value of feedback (...er, "repeats"!) as layers as well?
Thanks again for the great work.
I’m going to have to experiment a little to answer this question.
I've got some questions:
1. If you turn the layers knob on the Blooper down, then record... what happens? Does the earth shatter into a million bloopy little pieces? Does it inject your performance between layers? Does it erase everything after that point?
2. I've been dabbling with looping for years, but it wasn't until I stumbled across your music one day that I realized looping can be a pretty cool tool for solo music making beyond basically building a backing track on the fly. I have a Boomerang, but I'm not sure it's for me. Having multiple loops is awesome, but I find the controls unintuitive. I've been debating switching to the Blooper, but I run a fair chunk of stereo effects (which the Boomerang supports). I'm also a software developer by day, so if I can stay off the computer, I'd prefer it. Any thoughts besides "spend more time figuring out the Boomerang" or "buy two Bloopers lul?"
3. Not a question, but I was always told you need at least 3 things in a list, so... I like your edison bulb.
I'll have to experiment with the layer knob a little more to answer your question. Regarding stereo...I literally just saw this video, so maybe it's a candidate? ua-cam.com/video/u_i3LPPgc1Q/v-deo.html
A question about the Blooper pedal. Is there a mode where you can directly record overdub when you push the left footswitch just after the end of the recording of the first loop?
I don't believe that exists on the Blooper. You'd have to push the footswitch once to stop and another to overdub. I don't believe it can go directly into overdub mode (I feel like I remember Joel from CB commenting on this decision somewhere).
@@Kwert A blooper's owner told me that it's possible. You have to set it with a switch behind the pedal if my memory is good
@@milko3990 Oh! You’re right. It is a dip switch option. I haven’t really experimented with the switches on mine yet.