Video: live looping with GR-55, cover tune

Started by l0veweap0n, September 18, 2014, 01:26:46 PM

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l0veweap0n

Here's a link to my first live looping video!  Hope you like it.
http://tinyurl.com/nuw2t5y

It's of a cover of a popular tune, with the lyrics slightly modified.

It uses six GR-55 patches, all 'stock', just detuned by a 1/2 step.  I'm using the switch on the Godin xtSA guitar to spare some footwork, so patch-changing is all done with the switch, and the patches are arranged to be one-switch-away from each other, in succession, and the volume settings are 'custom' for this particular arrangement -- again to obviate the need for footwork with the volume pedal.  Then all the footwork is for the looping unit, which is the Pigtronix Infinity.

The active GR-55 patch is shown in the lower left corner of the video.

Let me know what you think!
Thanks.
PS- The drum trigger is of course a huge challenge.  I could never get the snare to trigger, but after reading a post on here about upping the sensitivity of RMC pickups (i.e. NOT setting sensitivity to zero, but rather about 40), I could get the snare to trigger...but it's still easy to trigger errant handclaps.  For this video, I decided the drum work was "good enough to convey the idea."

vablows

Very adventurous!
Aside from the small glitches here and there, sounds great and inspiring as to what can be done with the 55!