I don't play my CBG too often. The pick up has a pretty sour tone. The no fret thing is pretty frustrating too. Its a beautiful thing. A fan made it for me and sent it to me free so I'm pretty attached to it. I'd play it a lot more if I addressed those 2 issues. Basically I'm a singer/songwriter. Even though there are no CBG's or any other instruments in it I wanted to share my latest video. It's an a capella live looped cover of crossroads. :)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjvacflnBzY

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Hey Paul.  Great stuff... love the Ford Ranchero bit.  I actually have a Jamman myself but I find it to be a source of constant frustration.  Can never seem to hit the loop right.  You've inspired me to try it one... more... time.

Well let me rephrase my original meaning,

What I would like to be able to do is really similar to some of your stuff with the difference being, instead of pausing the whole loop, (which is fine too, not knocking that at all.) if I could select "channels" of the loop to pause and just leave a basic loop or two at the tap of a pedal, then resume the previous "whole" set of loops.......

Also, I know you can save loops for future use, if thats your thing, (Yeah the obvious use there gets as you said kind of Karioke, but if it saved it in a way I could dissect and use bits and parts I liked for constructing other stuff via multitracking on my DAW, that also could be pretty cool.

 

Just mentally exploring the possibilitys, and I dont know enough about what these things are capable of!

neanderpaul said:

Sorry, I get... excited?  So many people just use the on board beat, play 4 chords and noodle for 8 minutes. UGH!
I have a Kyrgyz komuz which is a 3-string fretless instrument. Not wanting to ruin it by adding real frets, I added tie-wrap frets which I tuned using a digital tuner. Don't know why more people don't try tie-wraps. Since then I've used them on a number of CBGs with good results. I use the small thin variety of tie wraps and because I'm music challenged, on one of my 2-stringers I use black tie-wraps for the accidentals and white ones for the natural notes, like the keys of a piano. On the down side, there is some muting going on, but these are all "practice instruments" with no electronics. There's also a lot of good info here on CBN about adding piezo and magnetic pickups, maybe some of their ideas can solve your "sour pickup" problem.
-Rand.

One of my students turned me on to this just now.

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