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>Dear all,
>
> Well, got my Echoplex and footswitch from Alto Music a few weeks ago
>and
>everything worked great straight out of their boxes. I now understand the
>complaints about the manual and definitely see some room for improvement
>therein. Several taped multi-coloured plastic tabs helped out with this
>one.
> Will get into a few ideas for updates later on...
I am like that, too: as soon as I get a unit, I start the update
suggestions... what sign are you born under? ;-)
>Anywho, gave it a shot
>with a David King headless fretless 6 string bass, fretted Steinberger
>5-string bass, a doubleneck Carvin, Polycarb Stick, and finally a Roland
>JV-90 just to see what I could get out of this beastie. First thing is
>that
>I have 50.3 seconds of memory when this beastie ships, and man I now
>understand just how little this can be, quick! Especially with the
>multiply
>feature, trying to get activated... Succeeded a few times with rather
>positive results for tiny loops.
>
> Had a blast with it just playing back what I had done, and then
>doing a
>little overdubbing, and finally sussed out how to get this thing to record
>separate loops and then play them sequentially, repeating loop a then
>b...
>Couldn't quite suss out the fade out feature, and could only
>"accidentally"
>get the reverse feature to happen for me.
select REV at InsertMode or do Timing-Reverse (PARAM-UNDO)
> Another thing which popped up from time to time was that the beastie
>was
>overheating on me and shutting itself down, with all of the lights, but
>that
>over the Record and the two decimal places on the LCD screen going off.
and then stopped doing anything? I dont believe...
>Cranked up the Air Conditioning and this problem disappeared rather
>quickly,
>gave it a dedicated fan and it didn't occur for the few hours I toyed with
>it...
That is the state in Reset. Are you shure "overheating" was not just
a long press on Record?
> Man, getting this beastie to go into reverse mode is a bit of a
>chore,
>and then I have a quick question, can you change the speed of the play
>back,
>as you could with a tape echoplex?
no, the nex soft version can go to half speed and back.
> Now, off-list, I've been asked a few times to do a comparison between
>both the Echoplex and the Boomerang. This is again, just a statement of
>opinion and only that!
> I'd find myself working with the Boomerang more in a live context
>than I
>would with the Echoplex. Mostly because, I find that single buttons are a
>bit easier to work around in a live setting than menus.
forget it, you dont need to acess any menus while playing!
> Oh, by the by, for the attackless drones, a sneaky way I've found of
>doing it, is to activate the note you want to drone, run it through a
>volume
>pedal and then some form of digital delay on a slow setting
yes, thats how it started...
> and then just
>after you get the sound you're looking for, timbre or rumbles then start
>recording with either unit, and found that they both (Boomerang and
>Echoplex)
>handle this quite nicely. Typically, I like to swell it a little more
>about
>halfway through the loop to be.
I only have an Echoplex and no delay, but I think with RECORD-OVERDUB
and around 3 seconds of loop, you fill a good drone without
perceptible repetition.
---> http://Matthias.Grob.org