When recording a loop that you want to play along with, and especially if you want others to be able to play along, your timing has to be spot on. Timing Is EverythingĪlthough some of the following advice may appear obvious, recording clean and rhythmically consistent loops is the most frequently mentioned challenge faced by novice loopists (for clarity, we’ll refer to looping devices as “loopers” and persons doing the looping as “loopists”). Still others have feature sets designed to be of particular use to artists for whom live looping itself is the art form, and the looper a primary instrument.Īs someone who has been involved with live looping since the early ’80s, beginning with a pair of Revox reel-to-reel tape recorders and a few years later a Lexicon PCM 42 Digital Delay, here are a few tips and suggestions for getting the most out of whichever looper you happen to be using, especially if you are in that latter “artsy” group.īarry Cleveland: "Third Stone From the Sun" Live-Looping Demo 1. Others are aimed at performers who want to present multi-part song arrangements live, either as backing tracks prerecorded into the looper’s memory slots or by building them up them track by track before an audience. Some of these loopers are intended as practice/compositional aids and feature onboard drum machines and canned accompaniments in various styles. Loopers range in size and complexity from tiny pedals with a single knob and footswitch to what amount to pedalboard workstations that function as automated multi-track recorders capable of rendering complex musical arrangements via sophisticated programming capabilities and numerous footswitches and pedals. Originally an analog tape-based process dating from the mid 20th century - Terry Riley, Brian Eno and Robert Fripp are three of its best-known proponents - these days live looping is done almost exclusively with digital devices, and there has never been a greater variety to choose from. Live looping, however, is a real-time performance technique. The use of repeating sections of audio, or loops, has been a fundamental aspect of music production for decades, especially in sample-based music such as rap, hip-hop and electronica.
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