Re: sync-ing non-midi loopers???/Quiet switches for Headrush!

[Jimmy George <jimmyg@jimmygeorgearts.com>]

thank you H.Eye. very informative.

jimmy george

Hawkeye255@aol.com wrote:

> jack,
>     Good Idea!  They should stay perfectly in sync.  And the switches 
>inside
> the Headrush are DPDT (push/push) so you even have extra lugs on each 
>switch
> to do it.  Aaaaand one wall wart is plenty, just make up a pig-tailed 
>Y-plug
> for one of them.  I use this all the time.  For instance, I have had two 
>Korg
> X5DR's running off one wall wart for two years now and both my 
>Headrushes are
> on another, etc.  Works fine.
>     I use my Headrushes differently than you suggest however.  One's 'mix
> out' goes to the other's 'input'.  That ultimately gives me a 23 second 
>loop
> with many, many, many layers, if I so choose.
>     Btw: I have found much quieter switches for the Headrush too, if you 
>do a
> lot of vocal or acoustic instrument looping in a very quiet room where 
>the
> click of the switches is picked up by your mic(s).  Alcoswitch Part#
> MPG-106D.  SPDT.  They are not the 'combat strength' switches the 
>originals
> are however.  I remounted the original switches on mine with rubber 
>washers
> and that helped soften the click sufficiently for me.
>
> good luck,
>     'hawkeye'