Lately I've been working up some original and cover material on solo acoustic, using a thinline Taylor guitar and a looper which allows me to put down the basic song structure first and then play over it. A simple drum loop helps keep the changes in time with each other. Here's "So Many Roads." This is mistakes and all -- you can tell I did this live because I forgot the words at one point and ended on the wrong chord (good save on that, though).
Technical details:
Taylor T5Z guitar (small-body thinline acoustic, capable of loud volumes without feedback and pickups will not pickup the sound of you singing on the right setting).
Boomerang looper (allows three "parts" per song, which is why I only did one version of the turnaround during the chorus)
BeatBuddy drum pedal -- this needs improvement as it's noisy as hell and clunky but it slaves the looper to it and forces loops to open and close on the beat, which is invaluable trying to do this live
Strymon Flint and El Capistan for reverb, tremolo and delay
Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive for a little edge to the guitar, FullTone OCD for the real drive
Guitar/looper go into one channel of a Fishman Loudbox Artist amp, the vocal into the other. The drum loop goes into the aux input. What you are hearing was not remixed, it's just the mono DI out of the amp.
Eventually I'm going to try this with a PRS P24 I'm having built instead of the Taylor. It's challenging working out the song structure on the looper and you have to remember to trigger the verses and choruses. On the plus side, you can lay down little rhythm parts and solo over them endlessly.
Technical details:
Taylor T5Z guitar (small-body thinline acoustic, capable of loud volumes without feedback and pickups will not pickup the sound of you singing on the right setting).
Boomerang looper (allows three "parts" per song, which is why I only did one version of the turnaround during the chorus)
BeatBuddy drum pedal -- this needs improvement as it's noisy as hell and clunky but it slaves the looper to it and forces loops to open and close on the beat, which is invaluable trying to do this live
Strymon Flint and El Capistan for reverb, tremolo and delay
Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive for a little edge to the guitar, FullTone OCD for the real drive
Guitar/looper go into one channel of a Fishman Loudbox Artist amp, the vocal into the other. The drum loop goes into the aux input. What you are hearing was not remixed, it's just the mono DI out of the amp.
Eventually I'm going to try this with a PRS P24 I'm having built instead of the Taylor. It's challenging working out the song structure on the looper and you have to remember to trigger the verses and choruses. On the plus side, you can lay down little rhythm parts and solo over them endlessly.
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Check out my original record at http://vicderobertis.com
or https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/crook ... d978388845
http://leftyguitarsonly.com
http://www.playingdead.net
