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I have a Gibson echoplex and I just acquired an
electrix repeater. One of my primary goals in looping is to create
multitimbral sustained ambient drones. the echoplex does this very nicely
with no pops or other artifacts that occur as you record over the start point of
your loop. I was hoping to get a more versatile (and stereo) version
of this same ability in the repeater. Unfortunately, this was not to be.
After some experimentation, I discovered that on overdub, as a drone or
sustained note was recorded over the start point, there was a distinct artifact
(a popping sound sometimes, an amplitude inconsistency others). I finally
decided that this was because the echoplex is based on a delay architecture
rather than a sampler/recorder architecture like the repeater. I think what is
happening in the repeater is that on overdub the sample is actually mixed and
resampled with each pass rather than the more traditional method of creating an
infinite delay loop.
The whole point of this is to ask these questions:
Am I right or just not using my repeater correctly? Is there a stereo
delay type looper out there in production or easily available? Are all
"dj" oriented loopers (djrnd3, red sound) like this? And finally, is
this a quality that loopers should address when reviewing devices for
wonderful and informative sites such as this one?
thanx,
lance
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