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But eventually I found it both a crutch and a risk of something going badly wrong, and after the looper (some of you will have worked out it was a Line 6 DL4 ) misbehaved once at a gig - due to some unexplained glitch, and although it never did that again I never really trusted it - I went back to working out parts I could play without needing it... it's a bit of a two-edged sword if you have parts that can't be played without either the looper or a second guitarist.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Ideally the drummer needs mix of the loop fed in a monitor next to him or in some cans. Just having your normal guitar on stage sound / volume won't really work, the loop needs to drive everybody or at least the drummer who drives the song.
How do i get my sound to his ears etc?
I think the best approach would be to sync any loop tempo with a click for the drummer. The drummer needs to own the tempo whatever happens.
(just noticed this was mentioned a couple of posts up...as you were).
£200 though Anyone selling?
Looping is becoming second nature to me anyway - I can't imagine life without one. We make quite big, open, spacey songs with lots of layers so they're essential. Even on the tighter, more direct songs.
I can imagine it's even more difficult with more band members though - more humans to commit human error - so best of luck!
I watched some live stuff by The Ruts DC on YouTube and he was using pre recorded loops. But for stuff that was very short, the rythmn guitar and the band continued underneath so even if it was out it wouldn't matter a great deal.
I use the Ditto x4 mainly for solo use where I am 'in control' ... but it has various different outputs that you could feed directly into the mix so the drummer can hear it clearly. The new Ditto x2 Jam sounds like a great idea if it really is intelligent enough to adjust to natural deviations in the bands tempo but I'm reserving judgement as I suspect it might get confused by all the different noise levels going on in a live gig so I'd love to hear if anyone has successfully used one of these in a full band setting.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein