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Are you planning to play regular songs in the repetoire? Because there are a TON of backing tracks out there for many songs. Those could be played through a phone or other device, likely through your amp, thus negating the need for a looper?
I know some people (ie DOVYDAS on YouTube) like to build the tracks onstage with a looper and that is cool. But it sounded like here you mentioned just making them at home, which would lead me to think that pre-existing backing tracks, often with bass and guitars, might be suitable for your purpose? I think Dennis Chang has a bunch. Stephane Wrembel has a bunch. There is a forum member who has created a neat search engine to find the songs you might be looking for.(https://gypsyjazzplayalongs.jpcafe.xyz/) Don't know if that helps, but good luck.
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Thank you for the comment! I play regular gypsy jazz compositions, and I do use backing tracks.
Open mic events happen in my city every day. These are general open mic events, where people sing pop/rock songs self-accompanying. Only one place once a week allows me to connect my phone and play home-prepared backing tracks (some of them are mine, some I took from YouTube). Other places said that if I want to play, I need a looper to play the backing track, not a phone or a laptop connected to their mixer. They are afraid that it will cause a trend. People seeing I use my phone for a backing track will ask to connect their phones with a backing track and sing, quote 'Mama, Mia, and it will convert the open mic to karaoke.' End of quote. Their concerns make sense.
If they didn't set these conditions, I would never think about a looper, an amp, and the pickup because I play at home and want to regularly play at open mics. If I need all this stuff, having an additional option to play outside would be fine. Therefore, a versatile configuration of devices for my plans is considered.
Thank you for the clarity!
Please check my understanding.
Having these devices, I will have these 3 options:
Practice at home (pickup+looper+amp)
Play at open mic (pickup+looper). The amp is unnecessary because a stage has all the necessary stuff: a mixer, monitors, speakers, etc.
Play outside (pickup + amp). I can avoid using an external looper because the amp has a built-in one.
Does it make sense to buy a used looper and amp? Can there be technical issues that I cannot find during a test at the purchase? As you may have noticed, I am a newbie in electro-acoustic devices; if you were me, would you buy used things?
Buying used would be fine. Should be no connecting issues.
Sounds like you're going through a lot of trouble when you could just get another guitarist to play rhythm with you. It's an open mike; there must be a ton of guitarists hanging around. This is jazz music, and it's way more interesting with another player with whom to interact. I find myself tuning out players with loopers because the rhythm is too predictable and repetitive. Just sayin. . . .
As for amps, no acoustic amp needed. The Krivo is a humbucker pickup just like on an electric and you can plug it into any guitar amp.
Hello,
You have American experience of a ton of gutarists. It is not a jazz open mic. I have met pop and rock song players. No one play gypsy jazz or just jazz. I tried with a few musicians of other styles, no one played properly (even after providing them great youtube lessons from top gypsy jazz musicians), some later refused due to being busy. It can happen in the future, that I will find one good rhytm guitarist.
Hello, can you please provide the name of the battery you bought. I am curious how it works if I have an amp and a looper. I should plug two reviced to the battery or usually loopers are not needed a separate electiricty source when conencted to the amp?
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I have three questions.
This is what I got. Right now it's the cheapest I've seen it ($157 at this time). It's small and light. One time we used it for an outdoor gig, had a small PA plugged in it, a guitar amp and a bass amp and after a couple of hours of playing through it, it still had 50% battery charge left. In my opinion that's a better way to go than an amp with built-in battery. This thing, you can use for the whole band, camping, power outage...all kinds of situations where it can come in handy.
https://www.amazon.com/EF-ECOFLOW-Portable-RIVER-Generator/dp/B0B8MXPRDB
Buco, I forgot that in the US the plug type is different, but I found a European version of it. Thank you!