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bass sequencer/looper

Post by vvv » Sat Nov 12, 2016 11:01 am

Any idear what equip I want?

I want something I can store a cuppla songs worth of bass lines in for jamming purposes.

I want, say, 5-10 songs with 2-3 parts each.

I'd like to play the parts in, save 'em, and be able to re-arrange 'em.

I'd like it to sound more or less like a bass guitar, or at least a low bass synth.

I don't care about drum sounds.

I like the idear of a looper, but if I can find some kind of sequencer that I can store songs in, that would be easier.

I would prefer not to have to use MIDI or a computer - I just wanna play either the entire song in, or play some loops and then re-arrange them into songs, ex.:
loop A 5x- loop B 3x - loop A 5x- loop B 3x - loop C 5x - oop A 5x- loop B 6x

My intent is to plug it right into a bass amp, so we can jam guitars over it, with live drums.

And I want it inexpensive, of course.
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Post by apropos of nothing » Mon Nov 21, 2016 9:33 am

The jamming with a drummer part rather complicates it. It is my experience that drummers tend to vary from a loop pretty quickly unless you provide them a reference click, which rather denigrates the traditional role a rock drummer plays from timekeeper to percussion performer.

Many loopers could fulfill the rest of your requirements. Might look at Boomerang, Digitech JamMan and the Roland loopers.

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Post by vvv » Mon Nov 21, 2016 12:33 pm

Thought about it some more and picked up a Tascam D008 digital recorder.

I figure to either:

a. pre-cord my bass-line and then re-amp it to jam along with the drummer and other guitarist; or,

b. jam bass-guitar-drums and record onlY the bass offa my amp DI.

Because the unit has two phantom-powered XLR tracks to record with at a time, I can actually record us onna stereo track while playing to the prerecorded bass track - should sound better than my Zoom H2.

Best part? US85 shipped with a power supply and a 32gig SD card.
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Post by vvv » Mon Nov 21, 2016 12:36 pm

I have a Digitech looper, BTW, the Jamman Express XT , but find it kinda a pain in the arse; I also have loop capabilities on the Hardwire Delay, which I haven't liked using.

Somewhat along thos lines, I will say that as a guitarist I love the EHX Freeze.
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