Roland GR-55 & RC-300 Loop Station w/Godin LGXT "Dragging the Wounded"
Channel: GenXFuturist101
Date: 2013-03-25

Using the GR-55 with my new Godin & RC-300 Loop Station, I have created 3 loops to be used in Single Track Only play mode so that the looper can change from Verse, to Chorus & to Bridge with Switching occurring only at loop end. Each track is set to Fade out if "stopped" & during the vid capture, I go ahead & add 1 layer of misc. sound to each of the three tracks as part of the Jamming.

This is a Loop based reconstruction of the main components of one of my old originals that I personally consider as inspired by Van Halen's Style of cruise control Hard-Rock. It has words that go to it, but I am not currently recording any vocals for my youtube uploads :). Just to describe the message of the song IF you could hear the lyrics it would be about those of us in society who are NOT down and out on our luck mercilessly dragging those of society who are not so lucky forward with us relentlessly despite their inability to "walk or stand on their own" & to do with those few well to do that take every advantage they can of those who are desperate enough & unfortunate enough to be "at their mercy". Without need for lyrical structure, I took some liberties with the arrangment that the looper makes all too easy to have fun with.



Tracks were created in the following order when building the loops:
Track 1, 2 & 3 of RC-300 were made with all the same Patches (to sound like 1 whole band):
  RC-300 Rhythm 16th Shuffle 2 beat
  GR-55 patch High Gain Soldano w/LesPaul modeled & Line 6 "Twang"(green) model w/phaser
  GR-55 Pdl Bend Bass Patch in clean mode with the octave swept to "normal" Bass Octave

The FX patch on the RC-300 was set for Tremolo with 1/8th note quantize @120BPM

Equipment used:
PC Tower w/Windows 7
Roland GR-55 Guitar Synthesizer
Boss RC-300 Loop Station
Godin LGXT w/Cognac burst finish
Line 6 Spider IV 30W combo w/Foot Controller/wah
Windows 7 Movie Maker live capture method for recording
Audio Capture via M-Audio Mobile Pre
Video Capture via USB Microsoft LifeCam VX6000