Hey Cap'n,

you should hoof this discussion over to our LIVE LOOPING tribe.

there's a lot of discussion there.

Also, if you are serious about looping and the live looping community
you should check out LOOPERS DELIGHT.com if you haven't already.

It's an enormous community. There have been 35 festivals of Live Looping in the past 3 years in 15 different countries. LOOPERS DELIGHT (run by Kim FLint who is part of AURISIS, the company that made the Loop IV software that is so powerful in the Gibson EDP) gets close to a million hits a year on teh website.

There is an incredible archive of everything subject you can think of that relates to live looping, from gear to aesthetic considerations.

Welcome to the world of looping............................come play the Y2K6 International Live Looping Festival that I produce every year in October in Santa Cruz. This year we had 50 loopers from 7 countries in 5 days of performance in 3 cities. It was awesome. Everyone from looping professionals to looping newbies performed.