Bill Walker Meets the Moog Lap Steel
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Uploaded by MoogMusicInc on Apr 13, 2011
Bill Walker stopped by the Moog Sound Lab to treat us to some incredible live looping improvisation on the Moog Lap Steel.
Ok the gear breakdown (in Bill's own words):
I was running the Moog lap steel through a very basic rig starting with a Keeley compressor set for light compression and a bit of signal boost, into and ethos preamp for both clean and overdriven tones ,into a TC Electronic G Sharp for some dynamic delay and reverb, and finally in to a Looperlative LP-1 8 track loop recorder. I use a Gordius Little Giant midi foot controller to send commands to the Looperlative. My two expression pedals control volume and feedback for my loops.
I use a number of looping techniques that include track speed manipulation, reverse loops, and quantize replace functions. The quantize replace function is what is creating the percolating sequencer sounding loops. I had my quantize replace set to a factor of 16, meaning every time I hit my quantize replace switch , the looper would record for only a 16th of the total loop length. You do this enough times and a cool sequence of notes starts to emerge. I'll often start a piece by first recording a blank loop, and then one by one I start to build a sequence of notes until a highly rhythmic pattern emerges, even out of completely rubato playing.
Its a harder technique to describe than it is to show :-)
www.moogmusic.com/lapsteel
http://www.youtube.com/user/BillWalkerGuitar
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Awesome!
nueschi 1 month ago
i love this guy bill you are amazing this is so sick!!!!!
stratsurfer7 1 month ago in playlist The Moog Guitar
Awesome Skills!
XYtoTheDoubleG 4 months ago
I love this! It's so stylish!
theheretic100 8 months ago
Bill !
such a great playing from such a great human.
When these two things come together I have a very good feeling :-)
many compliments and thanks for helping people get to the unexpected and still find their heart is there.
Luca
lucafeed 10 months ago
Thanks for the kind words, it was really an amazing experience playing this instrument, they did a great job of editing the material as once I started playing I couldn't stop!!! The folks at Moog rock!!!
BillWalkerGuitar 10 months ago
beautiful as always, bill! love it!!
aNDREmu2 10 months ago
Billy boy this is marvelous. As lush as I have historically heard you the thing that I think is really cool abou this is it's more intricate and Far East in quality and feel. Congrats and dig it!
jimgoodinmusic 10 months ago
old guard looper represent!
suitandtieguy 10 months ago
i must get a Looperlative.
thudmother 10 months ago