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I've been making and recording loops for a year, and dropping them on YouTube for at least half of that. But that's not a great format to give extra detail. So I'm going to try delving into that here on the lob to discuss my opinion on each loop, as well as the effects and thought process behind each. Do you think I should keep doing this? Give me feedback (as comments on the video or wherever you can find me) about which loops you liked the most (that's why they're numbered).
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### Loop 1
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This one has a relaxed slow vibe that is the sort I've really been enjoying lately. It's also got a longer repeat with the chord progression than most of my recent loops. Slow jam with some overdrive crunch and a bit of delay... I can sit in that groove for a long time.
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### Loop 2
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I don't start enough jams on the bouzouki. This one started with a simple riff on that, and then from there I just wanted to keep it acoustic. So acoustic baseline, a little bit of reverby trumpet. And the only place to go from there is keeping it acoustic by layering a jam with my Taylor.
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### Loop 3
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This chord progression is from a friend's song. We're intended to play this and other songs of hers at an upcoming small festival, so I thought I'd practice over it. This isn't really quite the right rhythm, but it provided enough to toy with. I went with a vibrato lead because the whole thing felt old timey.
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### Loop 4
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Starting with a bass line just by using the Pitch Fork to down octave the guitar. Add some tremolo chords and... we've got another slow jam. These days these are my favorite place to sit.
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### Loop 5
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Another example of workshopping something over a chord progression from a song I'm supposed to be practicing. I liked the downward motion of the simple faux-bass. Given the arrangement a fuzzy guitar sounded appropriate. And if I'm not mistaken, this is when I got a Wave Machine and was interested in trying out some middle distorted tones.
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### Loop 6
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I try to film the whole process of creating the loop so I can pull the original samples later for the edit. This was an example where I had to step away after starting the loop and come back and recreate it. Which gives me a lot more ability to be precise in planning for an end destination (instead of what I usually do which is just layer until I'm happy). The key part was the second layer here with the fixed "pedal tone". Clean tone on these first bits, until a contrasting tremolo chord sequence comes in. Just a bit of overdrive for the lead tone, with reverb coming from the Afterneath if I'm not mistaken.
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