Live looper help

For all you solo performers that loop. I just received my Boomerang III. I'm having a ball with it and will be using it for solo performing. I'm curious about how you set up your loops...mind you I cannot save loops all will be made on the spot. I also want to be careful to not overuse it during a performance. Any and all suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks
Ce24

I do not preform anymore but I live loop when jamming .

The thing I like to do is have a mic going to the looper as well as my guit fiddle .

Then I find things in the live environment to scrape , hit, squeak... whatever interesting sound I can find or generate on the spot .

This can create nice textural ground to play over.

Often slowing and reversing your loop or both can make a simple sound into a glorious rhythmic textural play ground.

I also have a big box of assorted springs and ratchets which I utilize for this .:lol: Quite fun

I sometime save the nice loops on a digital recorder and re use em .
Just save em as separate tracks.

A laptop is good... with pro tools or similar s w you can stack up loops as separate tracks. mute and unmute as needed.

I do not preform anymore but I live loop when jamming .

The thing I like to do is have a mic going to the looper as well as my guit fiddle .

Then I find things in the live environment to scrape , hit, squeak... whatever interesting sound I can find or generate on the spot .

This can create nice textural ground to play over.

Often slowing and reversing your loop or both can make a simple sound into a glorious rhythmic textural play ground.

I also have a big box of assorted springs and ratchets which I utilize for this .:lol: Quite fun

I sometime save the nice loops on a digital recorder and re use em .
Just save em as seperate tracks.

Thanks....now that's the kind of thing I wanted to hear...that gets me going a bit......

I have a Boss RC20 I use to jam along with a live drummer sometimes, and when I loop with it my process is usually like this:
1) Come up with a guitar riff on the spot
2) Once the drummer has a feel for it, set the loop
3) click it off and let it go once or twice while I think of what to do next
4) noodle around until I hit on something else that clicks
5) Once the drummer has a feel for it, set the loop
6) click it off and let it go once or twice while I think of what to do next
7) maybe a lead?

then either:
8a) undo the last recorded loop (usually means I'm not playing for 1 bar)
9a) improvise a new loop over the original

or:
8b) improvise a new riff
9b) delete underlying loops and start playing new riff
10b) back to 1)

Either that, or just watch these guys while my jaw drops:
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i do a lot of spontaneous looping at home... occasionally i get the bug to go out an humiliate myself in public but thus far i've been able to quell that urge. good luck to you in your endeavor.

here's a loop i stumbled across today which i thought was quite impressive and it made me think of your post..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJvTT-x8ZAI&feature=related

I also enjoy using several loopers and bouncing the loop back and forth and combing loops speeds and directions.

Sometimes it can sound good to have the same loop going forward and backward or one slow and one fast or any combination..

I like a Dl4 in front of a boomerang and use it to construct the loop in the rang.
Dl4 also has a second input so you can add a mic or stylophone (I digress but dreamed 2 nights ago that they were giving stylophones away with purchase at Guitar Center) or an omnichord or any bent toy sometimes even public domain movie dialogue.from a laptop ,really anything that sounds is fair game.