[Ads-l] loop pedal

[Dan Goncharoff]

Google has 2008:

https://www.npr.org/sections/bryantpark/2008/01/kt_tunstall_explains_it_all_fo.html

"Musician KT Tunstall came into the BPP studio for an interview and live
performance
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2008/01/kt_tunstall_performs_live_on_t_1.html>,
then she stuck around to demonstrate how she uses a loop pedal to layer
multiple rhythms and guitar parts on top of each other to create a
one-woman band."

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020, 12:04 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Beau Monga’s first performance in 2015 on X Factor NZ (
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y53WtXlfss <
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y53WtXlfss>), Monga uses a loop pedal to
> record his voice during his performance. In a subsequent performance (
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA4HyOYRQwc <
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA4HyOYRQwc>, 3:25), one of the judges
> notes that he didn’t use the “loop pedal.” There is no loop pedal on the
> stage at that time and no explanation is given as to what a loop pedal is.
>
> Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loop_pedal <
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loop_pedal>) has citations back to 2011.
> The OED and Merriam-Webster do not have an entry for “loop pedal.”
>
> Looking at Google Books, there are citations from around 2006, but I
> cannot pull up any snippet views of them.
>
> The Fader
> Issues 36-37 - Page 87
> 2006
>
> ###
> Live and on record, Broughton operates with an off- the-cuff blues
> aesthetic, constantly revising his "bank of basic songs" by improvising new
> elements and layering with a loop pedal.
> ####
> ####
>
> Electronic Musician
> Volume 22, Issues 1-6 - Page 8
> 2006
>
> ###
> dynamically controlled effects-loop pedal FXpansion
> ####
> ####
>
> Both of these citations are Google-dated and are journals, so the dates
> are likely wrong.
>
> Cyprus To-Day
> Vol. 50, p. 21
> https://tinyurl.com/r69lnwo <https://tinyurl.com/r69lnwo>
> 2012 (Google-dated)
>
> ###
> Malapitan creates melodic compositions with his acoustic guitar, voice,
> Cajun drum and loop pedal.
> ####
> ####
>
> Searching for 2012, 2013 and 2014, it looks like this is no later than
> 2013.
>
> Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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