taabru45
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Cool little toy multitrack recorder/player on his guitar. Ever seen one of these things, tried one? : Steffan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXSXOAf ... re=related
The LesPulveriser? Les Pauls invention! Anyone used one?
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Walter Broes
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The times finally caught up with the last aspect of Les Paul's innovations (or mad scientist experiments,...), as a lot of people are doing similar things with loopers and samplers these days.
Back in the 70's, Danny Gatton had a Les Paulveriser-inspired attachment on his guitar that controlled his echoplexes, and Leslie speed, he called his gizmo "the magic dingus box", and said it was Les Paul inspired.
Back in the 70's, Danny Gatton had a Les Paulveriser-inspired attachment on his guitar that controlled his echoplexes, and Leslie speed, he called his gizmo "the magic dingus box", and said it was Les Paul inspired.
Great clip, taabru45! His stuff with Mary Ford and all the guitar overdubs is just awesome, what a great innovator!
walrus
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Walter Broes said:
Walter is 100% correct, I got one of these for Christmas. (Digitech Jamman).
Fun to play with, very humbling particularly for those of us who don't play as well as Les Paul.
All ya gotta do is get a groove going, step on the record pedal on a one count, lay in what ya got, hit the stop on a one count, hit the play switch & Viola!! Instant replay, if ya don't like it, hit the undo & start over.
Same with the overdubs. Memory storage is a detachable CompactFlash card, same as a digital camera. Unit has computer capability, Plugs into a computer via USB.
Walter Broes
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I've been intrigued by gadgets like that Jeff, looks like a neat toy. Is it user friendly, even for people who hate scrolling through menus and prefer a couple of knobs to a whole lot of multi-function "keys"? (It took me half a year to really figure out my cellphone, to give you an idea... 
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taabru45
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I hear you. I really got the definition of generation gap when one time, at the music store a couple of young guys trying effects pedals in the sound room came to the counter with one they really liked but asked if they had one without knobs. I knew then that I was living in a somewhat different world. Knobs, its what makes our world go round. :!: ...Steffan
Jeff said:Walter Broes said:I've been intrigued by gadgets like that Jeff, looks like a neat toy. Is it user friendly, even for people who hate scrolling through menus and prefer a couple of knobs to a whole lot of multi-function "keys"? (It took me half a year to really figure out my cellphone, to give you an idea...
Walter,
Main functions are pretty much idiot proof, no menu screens, much less complicated than a cell phone, basic requirement for electronic stuff at my house.. I''ve been trying for 18 months to figure out a cheapo 4 channel mixer. .
ops Freaking cell phones, jeez.
Walter Broes
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Thanks!! I might check one out in that case, and I feel slightly less bad about my techno-phobia!
taabru45
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhhLeqjj ... re=related
Great example of what Id like at my house, but I don't know what model it is. Steffan
Great example of what Id like at my house, but I don't know what model it is.
Steffan
Walter Broes
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She'd be welcome at my house too...! :mrgreen:
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jp
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Those are a blast, Jeff. I'm just amazed at what's available nowadays. The original Digitech PDS-1002 (2-sec, delay looper) was a staple of my pedalboard arsenal for years. (Still have it!)Jeff said:Walter Broes said:
Walter is 100% correct, I got one of these for Christmas. (Digitech Jamman).
Fun to play with, very humbling particularly for those of us who don't play as well as Les Paul.
All ya gotta do is get a groove going, step on the record pedal on a one count, lay in what ya got, hit the stop on a one count, hit the play switch & Viola!! Instant replay, if ya don't like it, hit the undo & start over.
Same with the overdubs. Memory storage is a detachable CompactFlash card, same as a digital camera. Unit has computer capability, Plugs into a computer via USB.
I used to mess around with the the looping, layered tracks a lot in a few bands. Then came the Lexicon Jamman, the rackmounted, grand-dad to yours. I had to have it, and I still do. A full 32 seconds of stereo delay, with infinite layers, looping even in reverse.
Nowadays, of course, you get hours and hours of delay and expansion onto a CFlash card. Whew! Look what LP started! There really good for hearing chord structure, harmony, and counterpoint. Also just plain goofing off, what I'm best at. I now have to get one myself!
Steffan, I have a buddy in NYC who worked as a research gopher for a well-known news anchor here in the States, Dan Rather. Years ago, he was researching a story on Les Paul for him and got to hang out with LP every day for about a week! He said Les Paul had all kind of amazing gadgets laying all over the place and loved to talk about them and explain how they worked. He was a total gear head at heart. :mrgreen:
taabru45
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Hi Jeff thanks for your input....Years ago, late 70s I was allowed to set up 3 amplifiers with a Roland chorus echo. and a Roland guitar synth, one of the 1st, I had about 30 seconds of loop and with all the voices of the synth I just don't know how long I was there but what a trip! I'll look into the digitech...looks like a blast. I have a small Toyota Motorhome and a tascam cassette portastudio, a 12 volt vox amp, etc and would like to take a few months traveling starting in the spring. Who knows who you might meet on the road, or what you may 'record' in the middle of nowhere. Maybe just record the crickets, no not those guys, the ones that have the habit of rubbing their legs together.
Here are 2 great clips of Les Paul...then and now. Plus one great old lady singing about what she wants in a man...still doin' it at 84 years!!! (Alberta Hunter) That kind of spirit inspires :!: Steffan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP7qI5RV ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_5ubk2 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbGxi5kCgo
Here are 2 great clips of Les Paul...then and now. Plus one great old lady singing about what she wants in a man...still doin' it at 84 years!!! (Alberta Hunter) That kind of spirit inspires :!:
Steffanhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP7qI5RV ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ_5ubk2 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbGxi5kCgo