Rick's technique

[DaddyAdv]

Originally Posted by patrick

so how does rick time when the actual instrument starts getting played or not on that channel?

all the sounds/loops are playing continuously, he just mutes them or manipulates them with the mixing desk (i.e. reverb, delay, eq etc.)
he's basically doing what a mixing engineer does, but since it's live and spontaneous, it's a whole new level
it's the same with the mixer strips, mixing engineers use gaffa tape and scribble down which channels holds which inputs (i.e. guitar 1, bass, lead vocal etc.)

the nord lead 2 produces the main loop sound from at least You Do Scribble and Rowla. it's also used on the bleeping loop in the middle of cowgirl. Rick also uses it as an input keyboard to the vocoder on BoyBoyBoy and Airtowel (and TMO, if things go wrong with Karl's guitar - that happened in Hamburg this year).