years ago before i ever owned a sampler or a laptop, i made all my digital loops using this old boss pedal.  the rv-3 is a reverb + delay pedal that lets you loop using the delay with the feedback turned up all the way… it is pretty much just an infinite repeat that you can keep layering stuff on top of.  if you turn the time knob while it plays back, you get this really choppy/stuttery effect that i really love.  i used it to make a ton of the percussive loops on in a cave or a coma (itunes link).  over the 12+ years that i’ve had it, the rv-3 has gotten noisier and more unpredictable.  i kind of like that about it.

here’s a little track i made just using a baritone ukulele + the rv-3. 

if you are on a machine that doesn’t have flash (like an iphone) you can listen here. otherwise…

http://unrecnow.com/dust/audio/090527.mp3

A->B->A (repeat)

i picked up a new delay pedal from a nice guy on craigslist today. it’s a pretty amazing little box. this is a short piece that i recorded using the looping function.  it mostly involves pushing and pulling the loop start and loop end points.  this thing has a million functions that’s going to take a long time to get to know… i’ve only scratched the surface.

meeting

matt and i got together today to make some music with Brian and Ted in the basement of the Board of Trade building in downtown Portland.   the results were surprisingly restrained.   i edited together a few excerpts into the kind of long clip above.