In November 2003, I took on the task of tallying responses to a question on the Looper’s Delight mailing list that the illustrious Rick Walker posted. The question went something like this:

What looping gear do all of you own and use?

Wow. About one month, 96 respondents, and one big bottle of Aleve later, I had tallied all of the answers into a spreadsheet and run some simple statistics on them. The results are still available here, at the Looper’s Delight File Library (a feature that I’m proud to have contributed to the list also!). The file is in the “Tools and Utilities” section of the library.

I just noticed a few days ago that the 2 year anniversary of this survey was upon us. In 2 years, a whole lot of new looping gear has become available, and looping has become a much more common concept among mainstream musicians. It seemed like it was time to do the survey again. Oh, my aching head.

This time around I’m a little older (2 years, to be exact) and a little wiser (not much, to be exact). I’ve setup an online survey to handle the task, and this time we’ll actually get some additional statistics (age, gender, location, primary instrument, years of looping).

If:

• you stumble upon this blog and you’re not already aware of the survey
• you do live looping, even if it’s in your bedroom
• you have about 3 minutes to spare

…then please go to the survey and fill it out. The more, the loopier.

I’ll start providing some simple statistics here in a few weeks, and I’ll leave the survey open until the end of January 2006, at least. Should be interesting to see how the data has shifted, and how well some of the new looping tools are penetrating the market.